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some larger, the tail much shortened, handsomely coloured with bright green and brown ; 

 others of the same size, differing in liaving the back white; they spin close cocoons, 

 abrading particles of the wood from the box in which they are kept, and mixing them 

 with the silk."— p. 293. 



The book is filled with such passages as I have been quoting, and 

 these not only entomological, but relating to every branch of Na- 

 tural History. Its importance and utility as a book of facts, are quite 

 on a par with its value and interest as an agreeable and amusing work 

 to the general reader. As throwing light on the high northern range 

 of many Lepidoptera previously supposed to be confined to the South- 

 ern States, the geographical entomologist must ever consider it a 

 valuable addition to his library. 



Edward Newman. 



Art. XII. — Notes on the Entomology of Adelaide, South Australia. 

 By A. H. Davis, Esq., F.L.S. 



Adelaide, 26th July, 1840. 

 My Dear Friend, 



You may well wonder how I find time to attend to 

 Entomology ; the truth is, I do not find time, but chance throws a 

 good many things in my way, and persons who know I am interested 

 in insects, bring them to me. I have not gone out for the object pro- 

 fessedly, for eighteen months, and there is little probability of my 

 doing so for that time to come. Still, when business calls me to the 

 farm, I take a pincushion and can pin a fly when I catch him. I have 

 not been able to devote any time to the small insects, which are very 

 numerous, particularly Chalcidites, and minute Cicadites, the latter 

 evince very singular habits here. I have now by me the leaf of a Eu- 

 calyptus, covered with little habitations perfectly like shells, the form 

 even of the ribs being faithfully represented, as in the 

 annexed drawing : there are a dozen on one leaf, and 

 they are scarcely half the size here depicted; the 

 shell is of a dirty brown colour : some species of the 

 same family make white shells, and the shell fabri- 

 cated by one species resembles that of a limpet. We 

 have a caterpillar now out which congregates in a mass on the young 

 stems of the gum-tree ; it is black, covered with little tubercles and rows 

 of spines of a pure white colour ; it has six true legs : on being touched 



