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guages, have contributed towards our knowledge of the Ento- 

 mology of this vast country. In England I may instance, 

 Hope, G. R. Grey, Waterhouse, Shuckard, Newman, Westwood, 

 Saunders, Baly, Pascoe, Hamlet Clark, Walker, F. Smith, 

 White, &c. 



In France, Lamarck, Dejean, Blanchard, Guerin Meneville, 

 Mulsant, de Breme, Bonvouloir, La Ferte Senectere, de Castel- 

 nau, Chevrolat, Serville, Guenee, Marseul, Reiche, Rambur, 

 Macquart, Walcknaer, Milne Edwards, &c. 



In Belgium, Lacordaire, Candeze, &c. 



In Germany, King, Burmeister, Schaum, Germar, Erichson, 

 &c. 



In Italy, the Marquis Spinola, Bonelli, &c. 



In Sweden, Schonherr, Boheman, Stal, Wallengren, &c. 



In Russia, Eschscholtz, Mannerheim, de Chaudoir, Gehin, 

 &c. 



This list of names, long though it be, must not be looked 

 upon as complete, indeed it is not unlikely that I may have 

 omitted names more deserving of notice than some of those 

 mentioned, but I think it is enough tc give some idea of the 

 dispersion of the many different books and transactions of 

 Scientific Societies in which our known Insects are described, 

 and consequently of the difficulties which meet the Entomolo- 

 gists residing in New South AVales at the very commencement 

 of their studies. 



It is on account of the disadvantages which we labom* under 

 here in Sydney, from want of access to extensive libraries of 

 Scientific Works, that we may be excused for occasionally 

 reprinting descriptions of known species. Thus, the Rev. 

 Mr. King's Paper on the Pselaphida, in the 1st Part of our 

 Transactions, and my Paper on the Scaritida, instead of, as is 

 usual, merely referring to species formerly described, repeat the 

 specific characters in full, as given by the various authors, 

 thereby relieving in some measure Colonial Entomologists from 

 the difficulties above mentioned. 



Among the works published during the past year, the 6th 

 volume of Lacordaire's " Genera des Coleopteres " may be ranked 



