Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

Phylum Arthropoda 109 der region (CSÍKI 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1919). The distribution and biology of salttolerant and halophilic beetle species was examined by LOTHAR MACHURA (1935a and 1935b). Data on Pselaphida appear in several communications on the Fertő district (BESUCHET 1955, 1963 and 1974; BESUCHET and SABELLA 1993; KARAMAN 1957 and 1960). DEZSŐ RÉVY and ZOLTÁN SIROKI gave occurrence records for six beetle families (Anthribidae, Carabidae, Curculionidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae and Scolytidae) in Moson County (RÉVY and SIROKI 1942; RÉVY 1943). Staff of the Zoosystematics Department of the Péter Pázmány University of Sciences in Budapest made two three-day collecting trips to the Kőszeg Hills (on May 19-23 and September 24-8, 193 6) and collected about 3000 beetle specimens, despite bad weather. This material and the collections at Kőszeg Museum (1119 identified and 340 unidentified specimens collected during summer stays near Bozsok by GYULA VÉGH, then head of the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts and presented in 1933,

31 along with beetles collected by ALADÁR VISNYA) were scrutinized by ZOLTÁN KASZAB (1937). Over 800 beetle species were identified, including curiosities and rarities such as boreo-alpine species (SZÉKESSY 193 7). The Natural History Department of the Savaria Museum in Szombathely holds an offprint of ZOLTÁN KASZAB'S article, dedicated to ALADÁR VISNYA Figure 12.7. ZOLTÁN KASZAB'S publication on the beetle fauna of the Kőszeg Hills. This copy dedicated for ALADÁR VISNYA contains invaluable subsequent marginal notes by the two men (Figure 12.7). On the empty pages of this, KASZAB, VISNYA and an unknown hand (the handwriting suggests ERNŐ CSÍKI) have listed further species from the region that became known or joined the Kőszeg Museum collection after the article was published. These correspond almost exactly to the species in the enumeration published later by CSIKI (1941a). CSIKI became involved in the research at the end of the 1930s, when he undertook to identify for the Kőszeg Museum the material collected in the meantime by ALADÁR VISNYA. He also 31 VIG, K. 2003. Verebi Végh Gyula természetrajzi gyűjteménye (Natural history collection of GyW). In ZSÁMBÉKI, M. ed. Egy európai Bozsokon. Verebi Végh Gyula munkássága és gyűjteménye (An European in Bozsok. Work and Collection of GyW), 34-46 and 47. Szombathely: Szombathelyi Képtár.