106 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



untruthful as it certainly would be unkind. The accuracy 

 and beauty of the pi'inting, the elegance and perspicuity of 

 the Latin characters, and the profound knowledge of the 

 labours of antecedent writers, displayed in every page, quite 

 relieve contributors and editors from the necessity for any 

 apology on the score of inexperience, and at once place the 

 * Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South 

 Wales ' in the very highest rank of the periodical literature 

 of Entomology. An additional charm invests this journal ; 

 I allude to the constant recurrence of the name of MacLeay, 

 a name not merely associated with a once popular scheme 

 for the arrangement of living beings, but also with the very 

 best descriptions of Australian Coleoptera that have hitherto 

 appeared in print. 



The original papers are eleven in number : their titles are 

 given below : — 



"On the Gall-making Coccidae of New South Wales, by 

 H. L. Schrader." 



" Descriptions of Twenty New Species of Coleoptera be- 

 longing to the Families Cicindelidae and Cetoniidae, by Wil- 

 liam MacLeay, Jun." 



" Description of Twenty New Species of Stigmodera, by 

 William MacLeay, Jun." 



" Description of an Ovoviviparous Moth of the Genus 

 Tinea, by the Hon. A. W. Scott." 



" On the Pselaphidae of Australia, by the Rev. R. L. King.'* 

 (In two parts). 



" On the Scaritidae of New Holland, by William MacLeay, 

 Jun." (In two parts). 



" On the Insects of Australia allied to the Glaphyridae, by 

 William MacLeay, Jun." 



" On the Scydmaenidae of New South Wales, by the Rev. 

 R. L. King." 



" Notes on the Metamorphosis of a Dipterous Insect, by 

 Gerard Krefft." 



" Description of New Coleoptera from Port Deuison, by 

 William MacLeay, Jun." 



" On a New Species of Ornithoptera, by the Hon. A. W. 

 Scott." 



Three of these papers, treating of life-history, have to me 

 a peculiar interest ; indeed an interest which I cannot now 



