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other Spcciies iiiciitioncd. Tliu Eucalypti 

 trees were uoav eovt'TiMl with a profusion of wliiti! 

 blossoms, attracting multitudes of purrotpiuts, 

 who xevel in the sweets afforded by the ncc- 



As the Slimmer season was now fully set in, 

 (December,) the previous sikuec tlic woods 

 was broken by the iucipieut, slirili, eliii-jjiug 

 noises wliich resounded over them, occasioned 

 )!^ the iiaalfr TelH^om% t?ee hoppers, emerg- 

 from the lar^ a into th^witiged state | the 

 cases the fly had left, being seen on almost every 

 tree or post. This genus is rtuiiarkahh' f(U" the 

 instrument witli which it cuts groovi-s in the 

 vtmd ^ the purpose of depositing its eggs, The 

 mn^bal org^^, or dmtti% mlf ibtiiad In the 



iiiah's. III!' not hr^s interesting; and tlu' best puh- 

 li>lH'd account respecting them is that by lu-aiuiir, 

 quoted in tlie very interesting entitled 

 *^ Imeci MtmBUmte&J^ The ah^odgmes call these 

 insects Galanf ^ pimig/^ mi feitiaeriy tised 

 them as food ; first stripping off the. WiUgs, they 

 atr* tlinni in the raw state ; that is, as rlir iiativo 

 blacks told me at ^ as, " when no white J'eller 

 keie, and black feller no get hriad or^im*^' 



Mf notice vm& partwinlaply dJ^ected fey iJi^i na- 

 tives t(t tlu' drums in the inale inserts, as lln- 

 nieans by which they produced their tluilliug 



