576 president's address. 



General Davies was interested in birds as well as insects; and he described, 

 with a coloured figure, the Lyre-bird ol' Australia, in his paper "Description of 

 Maenura superba, a Bird of New South Wales," Trans. Linn. Soc, Vol. vi., 1802, 

 p. 207. 



Another important addition to the Macleay Collection was the specimens of 

 insects and some miscellaneous invertebrata collected by Captain P. P. King. 

 These are referred to by W. S. Macleay in his paper, "On the Structure of the 

 Tarsus in the Tetramerous and Trimerous Coleoptera" [Trans. Linn. Soc, Vol. xv., 

 p. 68] in these words: — "I had scarcely, however, corrected the press of the first 

 number of that work [Annulosa Javanica], when Captain King of the Navy, ona 

 of those enterprising and accomplished navigators who at the present moment 

 confer so much honour on our country, requested me to examine the insects which 

 he had collected during his late expedition to explore the coasts of New Holland." 

 The record of this collection, comprising 192 species of insects, of which 81 were 

 described as new, four species of Arachnida, and about 30 of marine inverte- 

 brata, collected, under great drawbacks, by Captain P. P. King during his sur- 

 vey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia between the years 

 1818 and 1822, is given in King's "Narrative of a Survey," &c. [Vol. ii.. Appen- 

 dix, p. 438, 1827]. The collection was apparently presented to W. S. Macleay 

 by Captain King. In his paper on "The Genera and Species of the Amycteridae," 

 communicated to the Entomological Society of New South Wales, by William 

 Macleay, on 7th August, 1865, the author says that the insects originally described 

 by W. S. Macleay in the work above cited, "are in the late Mr. [W. S.] 

 MacLea/s collection now in my possession" [Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. 

 i., p. 267]. The rest of Captain King's collection was apparently presented either 

 to the British Museum or to the Museum of the Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, xiv., p. 603].. 



A. Macleay's collection of sale-catalogues comprises five others besides the two 

 mentioned — one of the "collection of insects of a gentleman well-known for his 

 knowledge of Nat. History" [name not given] sold in June, 1814; two of the 

 three parts of the Catalogue of Bullock's London Museum, sold in April-May, 

 1819, the sale lasting for eighteen days; the catalogue of the duplicates from Mr. 

 Stephens' collection, sold in May, 1825; and W. S. Macleay's copy of the South 

 African Sluseum [vertebrates, especially birds, and anthropological specimens] 

 sold in June, 1838. The first and second of these have marginal notes in i)eucil. 

 and may indicate purchases. 



Numerous specimens in Alexander Macleay's coUection were described, and, in 

 some cases, figured, while in his possession ; but others had become type-speci- 

 mens before he acquired them. Donovan, iu his "Epitome" (1805) described 

 and figured certain species, as already mentioned. At a later date, descriptions, 

 sometimes with figures, of specimens in the Macleay Collection were published by 

 Dr. W. E. Leach in his "Zoological Miscellany" (3 vols., 1814-17); by E. Dono- 

 van, in the Naturalist's Repository (Vols, i.-ui., 1823-25); by N. A. Vigors, in 

 a series of papers entitled "Descriptions of some rare, interesting, or hitherto 

 uncharacterized subjects of Zoology," in the Zoological Journal, Vol. i., pp. 413 

 et seq., 537 et seq.; Vol. ii., pp 238 et seq.; 514 et seq. (1825-26) ; and especially 

 by W. S. Macleay, in the Horse Entomologicae (1819-21). 



The specimens, mostly of Australian species, described by Dr. Leach from 

 Alexander Macleay's collection, in addition to birds (one, Polophil-u,i phasianus, 



