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year, I think it well to lay before you a brief summary of the 

 earlier history of Australian Entomology. 



To Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., we are indebted for the little 

 that was known of the Entomology of New Holland prior to 

 the commencement of this Century. He was the companion 

 of the celebrated Captain Cook, when that great navigator cast 

 anchor in Botany Bay on the 29th April, 1770; and upon the 

 collections which he made during that expedition, with the 

 assistance of his friend Dr. Solander, a pupil of Linnteus, was 

 founded all the knowledge which the world of Science for a 

 long time possessed, of the Zoological and Botanical productions 

 of the then Terra Australis incognita. 



Fabricius, in the year 1775, published descriptions in his 

 " Systema Entomologice " of the insects contained in the Bank- 

 sian collection, and Olivier in his " Histoire Naturelle des 

 Insectes" published in 1779, for the most part derived his 

 knowledge of the Australian species therein described from the 

 same source. 



The Colony of New South Wales was founded in the year 

 1 788, and from that period our knowledge of the Australian 

 Fauna became gradually developed. 



In the year 1802, Dr. Schreibers, of Vienna, described a 

 few iiustralian Coleoptera in the 6th volume of the Linnean 

 Society's Transactions. 



In 1805, Donovan published his "Insects of New Holland," 

 accompanied by figures of a number of species ; and in the same 

 year John W. Leewin, of Paramatta, published a small work 

 entitled " Natural History of Lepidoptei'ous Insects of New 

 South Wales collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after 

 Nature" 



In the years 1806 and 1807, Latreille published his " Genera 

 Crustaceorum et Insect orum," in which a few Australian genera 

 are described. 



In 1808, Mr. Marsham described 20 species of the genus 

 Notoclea in the 11th volume of the Linnean Transactions. The 

 Naturalist^'s Miscellany, by Dr. Leach, of the British Museum, 

 was published periodically about this i)eriod, and contained the 



