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XXVIII. A Description of several new Species of Insects collected 
in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Lib. Linn. Soc. 
By the Rev. William Kirby, M.A. F.R. and L.S. 
Read February 17, 1818. 
No country has produced more novelties in every department of 
Natural History than New Holland ; and the plants and animals 
of that insular continent, if I may so speak, are most of them of 
a peculiar character. Even such as are most nearly related to 
those of other climates usually exhibit some diagnostic that se- 
parates them from their correlatives, and indicates the region that 
gave them birth. "Thus, the Rhipicere of New Holland are distin- 
guished from those of South America by the teeth that arm the 
inside of their mandibles: their Lucani, (L. nebulosus Kirby, at 
least,) from those of other countries by their recurved mandibles 
and emarginate mentum. Not to mention the differences that 
separate Anoplognathus from Geniates and Rutela, or Scarabeus | 
proboscideus from its affinities Sc. mobilicornis, quadridens, &c. 
Mr. Brown, (who has so ably illustrated the Flora of New Hol- 
- land, and whose observations and discoveries have diffused so 
much new light over the science of Botany,) when in that country 
did not overlook its zoological productions, and amongst other 
subjects collected many new and singular species of insects. 
Desirous of having these treasures described, and his time and 
attention,—to the great benefit of the botanical world,—being de- 
voted 
