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List of New Insects 
have appeared; and thus being brought together, and grouped 
according to their orders, they would form a stimulus to further 
research. We have commenced by giving below a list of no less 
than 262 new insects described by the celebrated German coleop- 
terist Erichson in Wagner’s Archives for 1842. Of these three- 
fourths, it will be perceived, are Coleoptera or Beetles, a very 
numerous order in Van Diemen’s Land, especially in one of its 
families, the Curculionidse or Snout Beetles; and some of its spe¬ 
cies are very beautiful, as are those of the family Buprestidse. 
Although only sixteen species of Orthoptera appear in the sub¬ 
joined list, yet it is in reality very numerous in species, and the 
paucity of individuals described must have arisen from these in¬ 
sects taking up more room in collections, and consequently fewer 
have been sent to Europe. 
Strangely enough no Lepidoptera are described, although our 
nocturnal kinds are both numerous and beautiful, and fully make 
amends for our deficiency in diurnal species. 
Before commencing the list it will perhaps be useful to name 
some of the works in which descriptions of our Tasmanian in¬ 
sects are to be found. In Leach’s “ Zoological Miscellany” are 
some excellent plates of three or four of Butterflies, of some of 
our Orthoptera, and a few of the other orders. 
In the five volumes of the “ Entomological Magazine” many 
of our Coleoptera are described by Westwood and Newman, and 
the latter gentleman has continued his description of new species 
in the “ Entomologist.” Walker has described several Chalci- 
dida among the Hymenopterous order, collected by Darwin and 
others in the “ Annals of Natural History.” G. R. Gray has 
figured one or two of our species; and lastly Hope, Sanders, and 
Westwood have occasionally given the characters of Tasmanian 
insects in the “ Transactions of the Entomological Society of 
London.” T. J. E. 
Coleoptera. 
Carabici .Calosoma Schayeri, Scopodes boops, Plocliionus aus¬ 
tralis, Calleida pacifica, Cymindis curtula, inqui- 
nata; Harpalus verticalis, promptus, vestigialis; 
Pterostichus prolixus, coracinus, sollicitus; An- 
