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CRYPTOLiEMtJS MONTROUZIERI. 
special aptitude for the work had already been abundantly 
displayed, left America for Australia in August, 1891. In the 
course of the travels which his mission involved, Mr. Koebele 
twice visited this part of the colony, and procured in addition to 
other insects, the utility of which had already been made known 
by me, numerous examples also of the insect with ■which this 
note is especially concerned. And it is gratifying to learn, by 
latest advices from Washington, that Mr. Koebele’s visit has been 
so far successful, that living examples of Cry^tolsBmus montrou* 
zieri have been transferred from Australia to America for the 
behoof of fruit-growers there. In conclusion the early history of 
this insect may be here alluded to, as it also is not without 
interest. The beetle, then, was first collected in Australia by 
the celebrated naturalist-missionary, Pierre Montrouzier in the 
“Fifties,” and shortly afterwards described by Mulsant in the 
8rd volume of his “ Opusules Entomologiques ” (p. 140), under 
the name which it now bears— namely, Cryptoltemus, from two 
Greek words signifying hidden scythe, in allusion 
