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Additions to the list of South Australian Coleoptera have been made 

 &nown through the following papers : — Mr. J. S. Baly, (t) " Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History," November 1877, describes thirteen new 

 species of Phytophagous beetles from Australia — four of which 

 are from Gawler, one being the type of a new genus ; and in the number 

 for January, 1878, two species of Chrysomelidee. The same author has 

 communicated a similar paper to the "Journ. Linnean Society," vol. 

 xiii. (1878), in which seven new species obtained from Gawler and 

 Adelaide are described. 



(*) The British MuseumCatalogues of the Longicornia, by Mr. F. Smith, 

 1853, 1855, 10 plates, make mention of 102 species inhabiting Australia. 

 In 1859, Mr. F. P. Pascoe, to whom our knowledge of the Australian 

 lon°icorn bettles is almost entirely due, published a list of the 259 Aus- 

 tralian species of this favourite group in vol. ii. "Journal of Entomo- 

 logy," illustrated by two plates ; and seven years after in the (t) Proc. 

 Linnean Soc, vol. is, 1866, he f urnished another list which contains 

 nearly 500 species. He writes : — " If we take into consideration the 

 economy of these insects, their usually short lives in the perfect state, 

 and their attachment to certain trees in which their larvae have fed, con- 

 fining their distribution to very narrow limits, we can scarcely avoid 

 drawing the conclusion that we are still very far from having a complete 

 list." Of the new species described in the latter paper fourteen are 

 South Australian, from the neighbourhood of Gawler, collected by Mr. 

 Odewahn. This brings up the total number of recorded South Austra- 

 lian species to 126. In a supplementary paper in the same volume, Mr. 

 Pascoe adds seventeen new species, one of which is South Australia, and 

 in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," May, 1867, four new 

 forms are described. 



Order Hymenoptera. — Mr. F. Smith in the British Museum 

 " Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects," 7 vols., 47 plates, 1853- 

 1859, gives a complete list of all the known species of bees, hornets, 

 wasps, ants, and their allies with references to the synonyma, and des- 

 cribes many new species, the majority of which are illustrated by litho- 

 graphic plates. The number of Australian species recorded is 533, and of 

 these 71 inhabit this colony. For the solitary and social wasps the chief 

 source of information is Saussure's monograph of the family, " Etudes 

 s. la Famille des Vespides," 3 vols., 1852-56, which contains figures of 

 all the Australian species, excepting the six new species described by 

 Smith in the above-named catalogue. The same author, in (f) Brench- 



