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A LIST OF BRITISH SPECIES OF GEODEPHAGA : Intended for Marking Desi- 

 derata and Labelling Collections. Taken from Mr. Dawson's " Geode- 

 phaga Britannica." By G. Guyon, Richmond, Surrey. Post free for 

 Four Stamps. 



THIS list comes very opportunely for labelling collections of that portion of 

 the Coleoptera which includes the Geodephaga or ground beetles. It is, 

 however, printed on both sides of the paper; and for the purpose of 

 labelling, two copies must be ordered. The typography is the same as Mr. 

 Doubleday's " Catalogue of Lepidoptera," and is very correct throughout. 

 The Catalogue will fail, in some measure, in being a catalogue for marking 

 " desiderata," because entomologists will not recognise the insects under 

 Mr. Dawson's nomenclature. A person might have scores of Agoiium 

 marginatnm without knowing that he had a single specimen of Trichomenus 

 marginatus ; and here if Mr. Guyon had inserted the previously-used 

 generic names in brackets, as Mr. Dawson has done in his index, it would 

 have made his list very much more valuable. As it now stands, one 

 must have recourse to the " Geodephaga Britannica" itself a work which 

 no coleopterist should be without. 



SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MARINE BOTANY OF THE COLONY OF WESTERN 

 AUSTRALIA. By W. H. Harvey, M.D., M.R.I.A., &c. (Transactions of 

 the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. xxii. Science). 



WITH feelings of more than ordinary sympathy we welcome this contribu- 

 tion to the botany of a coast hitherto but little explored. We welcome it 

 as the production of one from whom we have learned much, and would 

 gladly learn more ; but, more than this, we welcome it as the record of a 

 lonely observer's labours, pursued at a distance from his wonted haunts and 

 the cheering applause of his fellow-students a memoir which serves as a 

 friendly link to connect the wanderer in a distant land with his work-fel- 

 lows at home a bright glimpse afforded of the rich harvest which will be 

 laid before them upon his return, laden with the spoils of what, to the 

 marine botanist, is, indeed, terra Australis incognita. 



The present memoir gives a rapid, though masterly, review of the botany 

 of a coast with which we were hitherto but very imperfectly acquainted, 

 concluding with a catalogue of the algae collected in Western Australia, 

 between the months of January and August, 1854 ; characters of the new 

 genera and species accompanying the latter. The land vegetation of Western 

 Australia, Dr. Harvey remarks, is now tolerably well known, while that of 



