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of filament?. 1 have foiiini iliis larva ( iiclosiMi 

 in its case of various siz<'s tVoiii rlirce to six 

 inches ; this has UmI me to couehulo that, like 



larva stiife, enlaiglag tlu^ kabitalidng as die 



former Ollps Ijeeome too smali for thi' iiicreasefl 

 size of their hodies. [ IoiuhI, hy enttinn," one of 

 the cases open, that they readily repair any injury 

 Aeir d.welliiig& may hm^ sustained, for % feW 

 hmn mly hmmg elapsed afbr. I liad the 

 incision to view tlie contained larva, I tomd 

 tlie case restored as firudy as l.)efor(^. 



In company with my friend, Mr, Lauga, 1 

 visited tihe coloaa&l mwsetit^, vbiclt h arranged 

 for tlie ptsmtA m ar Miatl too^, as^i^ed ^ the 

 ptWCfOee^ in the council-house, and which tel 

 been recently e-t;d>li>lied at Sydney : it forms an 

 excellent nucleus foi- a splendid collection, par- 

 ticularly in a country so prolific in rare, valuable, 

 and beautiful speoiittaEs usistuiral prcwiuctiens* 



For the ]>resent, tln' oniitholonieal collection is 

 by far the l>est, both for the nninl>er, and l>eing 

 beautifully stutied and set up'' in attitudes, from 

 wlucli it is evident that nature has been closely 

 isttidied. Specimens of the fkm^lieji OoltflpOLhsQ, 

 PsittaoesB,* Baptores, &c. are the most nu- 



lundim, curioufi as ^eiDf erne of the f&mt tribe* «een and 



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