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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND АЧСА, GAZETTE. 
my tour of inspection to the Mackay River, as PO 
on the Admiralty ar I sraminol the p ^, thi Nis 
nds air, ha 
mber. Hosio op 
ror ace to the р 
cultiva 
Ailantus piger (Bombyx e Cynthia), which ^ d 
t ted w h gre 
ccess at Colo wie; in the pom 
aring obia! nt o of m^ 
pecially amon the ба 
е | which are а сіла diyid E lir 
kope ukom ча Fisher но owing pret "p n 
e 
н 
r^ 
early Ё ustive, 
immediately adjoining were, in man 
and being naturally swampy, and subject to periodical 
insects feed. Ир Saunders E some аараан 
the 
for the nome of their marine vegetation 
* From the Mackay I proceede : in a boat to ап 
t 
Ailantus, Жее io the statements of x. Guérin 
Méneville, Mr. 8. Scudder, from. Bosto 
Ela 4 
mparative value of the timber of the| wri 
ОА, ign 
t 
the more recent 
IIS Íreshwater river, about miles to 
south-west. Upwards from the -- I found the 
for abo ut a mile; thence for two miles 
d this ag 
Sciad bilun p Miam smia, Morinda, Livistonia, | Polyphemus, which feeds ^ -— Oakin North Ameri 
Musa, Dracontiu with numerous other|and makes cocoons of silk, f ti spes | 
trees «nd shrubs "peculiar to cm districts. ilantus moth. Mr. S. в. элекен Фа Majesty's с=т ish quide | ар lost, as in 
“ One feature I noticed, вае mining this river, was | Consul at e fu, eshihied a remarkable series of|of m. Whioh un 
the m iar densit; ^ of the on eac nk, the | Strepsip of the genus Hyleethrus, in | іп tha 
F. Bond =ч 
belt of which i in some pem ph not have been less | 
n fact, I never witnessed in 
80 luxur riant a growt wth 
any of the colonies во m or 
2 
Rocks of North Aris which from the n "of 
different ve — а. д 
М. аса ремете — «і em 
AW read 
Ө жее к! бы Walker "ihe 
of this river. This fact alone » Wnfücianily testifies to 
the inherent richness of the and the additional | 
fact of there being in the very ате a river containing | 
etl y es an abundint flow of the purest fresh water 
its very embouchure, — to be an adequate 
n 
itish 
descripti o of i new genus of Chaleidide. The con- 
tinuation of a memoir ар, m gt restide of Australia 
(of which beautiful family i& was supposed that 800 
| South Annate) NM Mr. C. E Wilson, of Adelaide, 
Dey 
Чон. ог rates produc 
“1 nex ed overland to examine the soil 
adjoining ^. scrub, хе nearer the bead of the river. 
On —— the —— elevation, I was struck with 
mantic scene which suddenly 
th luxuriant Grass, 
with pure water, and 
ы racing P thousands of acres of the richest 
agricultural 1а m — : Am е ХЕ in the — 
colonies. It i of remark, 
beyond these sins de land iof. 4 кй а. чав 
character, in many places thinly timbered, and 
m also read. Henri rolle's жог 
Buprestidz of. the Eastern Archipel ago, со 
Mr. Wallace, was slso exhibited. 
"Kotíct8 of 250065, 
І. 
мз 
Briti. emiptera, Vol. By John William 
Douglas and John Scott. есы Svo. 627 рее 
vel = Ray Society. 
It had long been a subjec to th entom- 
logists of к= that rp entire orders of insec 
patre completely — whilst others, as the | 
| species were natives of tiat con гес P350 inhabiting | 
idoptera lpi b eopte re almost universally 
мей died This pof course properly | 
коше in ina пк degree to the want of descriptive. | 
peri 
k on the| Diptero 
collected 
The 35th number o 
Society (Botanical 
ч ап эрши ru "i 
avers, Ej! 
spas, TEST тота ед ae. > 
id, like 
н. ад наар by means p 
Oliver sup Note upon 
collected b т Oldbam. ARUM th 
variety of E album, the comm t 
Veitchia j a 
р у such n t as experience ha d 
all the produc ropical el eM prom apta 1 Utricnlaría mA ү Feu жу 
“I am yd that the whole of this " Ped e on any tribe of the objects of Nature, there | 
reser tho ia land ug єз фоле of this Ка um spran, d 2d a Dou mumber of collectors and о A. м пету à eger. qu [x vin 
or miles round, shou! set, apart for agricul- | observers of such о аз the order Diptera 
tural pu g two-winged flies dd u the et P aids of moths "М, species а oret are e чыш, р 
* There із one particular feature in the country here concern want remedied years | Cryptostemon, an 1% ера 
to, to which I would beg to draw special | ie by the publication of the * Insecta B ^a HM hi to the 
attention; that is, the facilities afforded on these | geries i of bes, -А-- in mih all these neglected orders | of CARE c 
extensive plains for irrigation, both by the extent of| were to haye th pati and we believe н sated for, by 
ties, the number of the creeks, and the conv lend oa 
nient am: ке the erection of ed to raise and | but the series was pe tinued before much p W. A. Leighton, and is 
water. Nevertheless, t eh ably ade in the last- т order. lt 169. е) collected in 
very prn when artificial means will need to be| Mr. MeLachlan has worked out the difficult кє: Richardson. 
resórted to—the rather, because this district is more | Trichoptera, and we have now before us the result ot xNBcHd 
voured in respect of natural water resou an апу | four or five years ** almost undivided attention to the | e pem ciao 
other part of the with which I haye become | order" by zi зни зен been | logue of Her ed 
ong and favourably most indefatigable | and carefully prepared” d i е notice 
In of this matter, I have thoughtit right British entomologists. and rare thi lant;" а 
o qd cinesi d 2 а volume which the Ray liost of 
as отіп о 1 the richness of the sil on t ban it ia | Socioty bas just issued, т heh, as far a it goes may n f Alpino ge 
likely to become the centre of a largo wr rd fairly claim to be опо b^ the most satisfactory and |*h 
population. I have, therefore, ree it the| useful hitherto рыно by Vial f» "o It contains | —— It iran very ic 
* Macalister, gow ihe name of the present Minister | careful descriptions of all the Hemiptera ears io FA 
for Lands and W. hi scio теа ia 1 ға а, агы known to senar гй а cultivation. 
Having КОТ my examination of tho diris the authors, amounting to 356 different M сус 08 ———I. 
above referred oceeded to inspect AMET Lu рие ja imde LX кый speci 
the valley of iver, and also that on беа Жү Сора, @ insects included їп 
View Range. The на in - I. Mai кы fi vert бє y nl ide the pb of p 
for - жас sah ре he | bugs, and are all furnished with a jointed 
kaik avera ara Bus 
to Spa Vies w, 1 Aaka dis the table land 7, ы сны "which are thrust by the insects into М ares this is a 
Hago a considerable area of excellent. soil, well sai stems of plan pra m which in most instances o | condensation of inte ernal mois 
f *of agriculture, and, what is more impor- in. secta не 8, thei ment, у doing bs а (ману S бш! evils, TUS 
tant, the whole of the ејни country is well watered, | siderable "E " ү" the case of the L жар whilst 
and remarkable for salubrity. tris, a small active peces whi Eo ge rar 
this period of the nz on чаг 
santhemum plant which "i sucks ы Jans 
Societies, the small ‹ them in their mi di. 
MOLOGICAL: Oet, 2.—F. Pascoe,| Esq, F.L.S., | back W wii р» Ж» үз are dis 
President, in the Chair, The death of Dr. а, | the Н з Hemi Tier sr distinguished rom 
of tha h crs of the Society, was | carried roof-wise, and which include the injurious | has 
Pg Qe we moth, | tribes of Aphides, Cuckoo- 
near July. Mr.| Та the execution of th urs the authors 
may be seen by mii [* (o^ of ому 
' Catalogue, 
brought up 
ey thrive any 
