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XXVIII. A Description of several new Species of Bisects collected 

 in New Hollaiid by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Lib. Linn. Sac. 

 By the Eev. William Kirby, M.A. F.R. and L.S. 



Read February 17, 1818. 



No country has produced more novelties in every department of 

 Natural History than New Holland ; and the plan-ts and animals 

 of that insular continent, if I may so speak, are most of them of 

 a peculiar character. Even such as are most nearly related to 

 those of other climates usually exhibit some diagnostic that se- 

 parates them from their correlatives, and indicates the region that 

 gave them birth. Thus, the Rhipicertz of New Holland are distin- 

 guished from those of South America by the teeth that arm the 

 inside of their mandibles: their Lticani, (L. nebulosus Kirby, at 

 least,) from those of other countries by their recurved mandibles 

 and eraarginate mentum. Not to mention the differences that 

 separate Anoplognathus from Geniates and Rutela, or Scarabaus 

 proboscideus from its affinities Sc. mobilicornis, quadridens, &c. 



Mr. Brown, (who has so ably illustrated the Flora of New Hol- 

 land, and whose observations and discoveries have diffused so 

 much new light over the science of Botany,) Avhen in that country 

 did not overlook its zoological productions, and amongst other 

 subjects collected many new and singular species of insects. 

 Desirous of having these treasures described, and his time and 

 attention, — to the great benefit of the botanical world, — being de- 

 voted 



