List of New Insects. 
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monetary operations; and they seem to justify the confidence 
reposed in their liberality and prudence. The total amount of 
bullion in their coffers at the close of 1846 was £286,543 7s. 6d., 
of bills of exchange, &c., £900,346 17s, Id.; their aggregate 
liabilities, on the other hand, being £53,209 5s. for notes in cir¬ 
culation, and £399,938 13s. lid. for deposits. Since the publi¬ 
cation of these returns the banks have raised the rate of discount 
from 6 to 8 and 10 per cent.; evidently attributable to the rise in 
the value of money in the English market. 
Table 48, completing the series, is a return of the cost of pau¬ 
perism to the colony; the amounts paid by the treasury being 
£5391 19s. 9d. for 1844, £3122 12s. 4d. for 1845, and £2954 
3s. 2d. for 1846. Large as is the amount, it constitutes but a 
fraction of the heavy expense of supporting the paupers of the 
colony; for, in addition to numerous charitable societies and 
church collections, many streams of private benevolence are con¬ 
stantly flowing, and the sympathy of the humane is seldom left 
unexercised without an appeal for relief in some urgent case of 
want or woe. It is much to be wished that in this city, as in 
Launceston, there should be established some general and com¬ 
prehensive charitable institution adapted to the varying exigencies 
of distress in all its multifarious shapes. 
^ RT . XXXVI. A List of 262 new Insects found in Tasmania, 
and described in Wagner’s Archives for 1842. 
The student of Tasmanian entomology is often at loss to tell 
whether or not an insect, which he is induced to regard as a new 
discovery, has been already described; and if described, where 
he must look for its characters. It would perhaps be doing a 
great service to the many collectors at present in the field, and 
would no doubt greatly increase their numbers, if the specific 
characters of the insects, already recorded as indigenous, were 
from time to time given in the pages of this journal, collected 
from the different and widely scattered volumes in which they 
