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descriptions with figures of some of the more interesting of our 

 Austrahan forms. 



In 1818^ in the 12th vokime of the Linnean Transactions, 

 wc tincl a Paper by the Rev, W. Kirhy, entitled " A descrij)tion 

 of several new species of Insects, collected in New Holland, by 

 Robert Broivn, Esq., F.R.S. ; also in the same volume there is 

 a Paper by the same author, entitled " A Century of Insects j" 

 seventeen of which were from New Holland. 



In 1819 Mr. W. S. MacLeay published the first part of the 

 Horce Entomologicce, in which a number of curious forms of 

 Australian Lamellicorns are described; and again in 1825 the 

 same gentleman, in an appendix to the late Admiral King's 

 " Intertrojncal Swvey of the Coast of New Holland," published 

 a description of 188 species of Annulose Animals that were 

 collected during King's several voyages. 



In 1830 the Zoology of the voyage of the " Coquille/' was 

 published by the French Government, and many Australian 

 species were figured in the Atlas of Plates, accompanying this 

 work. 



In 1832 Dr. Boisduval published the " Faune de I' Oceanic/' 

 a work on the Entomology of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean, 

 which professed to comprise, with the descriptions of several 

 new species, a complete 7-esume of all the descriptions of New 

 Holland Insects, that had been made by his predecessors. 



In 1833 M. M. Gory and Percheron published a Monograph 

 on the Cetoniidcp, which included a number of the Australian 

 species. 



In 1837 M. de Laporte, Count de Castelnau, and M. Gory 

 commenced their splendid work on the Buprestidce, in which 

 a large number of Australian species of that family are de- 

 scribed. 



In 1842 the insects of Van Dieman's Land were described 

 by Erichson in the "Archiv fur. Naturgeschichte." 



In 1848 German published in the " Linnma Entomologica " 

 of Stettin, a Paper on the Insect Fauna of South Australia. 



But since and even before that period, numberless writers 

 of more or less note, and in almost all countries and lau- 



