The Systematic Entomology Collections of the National Institute for Amazonia Reseracrh (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil, presently house about 16.350 identified invertebrate an vertebrate specimens, representing 330 species and including 692 types, which were deposited between 1940 and 1982 by the scientific staff and associates of the Max-Plank Institute for limnology in Plön, West Germany and here listed for the first time.