JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
No. XI.—DrEcEemBeEr, 1864. 
XX.— Descriptions of New ‘Australian Phytophaga. 
By the Rev. Hamzzr Crarx, M.A., F.LS. 
[Puate XII.] 
Tue following paper contains, for the most part, descriptions of new 
Australian Phytophaga which I obtained in M. Damel’s collection 
some months ago, and which are now in Mr. Baly’s cabinet and my 
own. But a very small portion of his insect-boxes contained Phyto- 
phaga; nevertheless among them were many new species, and some 
entirely new forms. Australia is not (like Europe) almost exhausted 
as to our knowledge of its genera, When we see on the map the 
comparatively small spots of that vast region which have supplied to 
our cabinets the Australian species that adorn them, and remember 
that even from these districts no collection is ever sent home without 
some, it may be several, novelties, we have no difficulty in believing 
that the number of species yet to be discovered in this interesting 
continent far exceeds the total number of the species we are as yet 
able to register. I suppose that, respecting Phytophaga, we may 
safely assert (what certainly we cannot say of every family of Coleo- 
ptera) that all the material which has been, or which is being placed 
in English collections is already fairly worked out (with the excep- 
tion, certainly, of Paropsis, which at present, for lack of knowledge, 
combined with the over-abundance of material, cannot be accom- 
plished); no collections sent to this country are suffered to remain 
unused ; and the natural and happy consequence is, that our valued 
friends and correspondents in Australia are themselves giving perhaps 
more attention than before to these interesting forms: we can assure 
them that their work is not unappreciated in Europe. 
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