APPENDIX. 38/ 



No. VI. 



DESCRIPTIONS 



OF SOME 



APPAEENTLY NEW SPECIES OF ANNULOSA, 



(collected by MR. MACGILLIVRAY DURING THE 



VOYAGE OF H.M.S. RATTLESNAKE,) 



BY 

 ADAM WHITE, F.L.S., 



ASSISTANT ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Among the very numerous Insects and Crustacea, col- 

 lected by Mr. Macgillivray during the voyage of the 

 Rattlesnake, the following have been selected for illus- 

 tration; references to and descriptions of some of the 

 Diptera, Homoptera, and Hemiptera, collected by him, 

 have appeared in the Catalogues of the British Museum 

 drawn up by Messrs. Walker and Dallas, while the names 

 and descriptions of others will appear in catalogues in 

 preparation. A fine species of the class Crustacea, dis- 

 covered by him, has been described and figured in the 

 Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoological Society. [Cancer 

 \^Galene\ dorsalis, White.) 



Insects. Coleoptera. 



Chrysodema jnstor, Laporte and Gory. Buprestidse, 

 t. 6, f. .33. 



Hab. Australia (Cape Upstart). Mr. Macgillivray in- 

 forms me, that the specimens of this species were observed 

 by him coming out of a dead tree (Casuarina). 



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