INTRODUCTION. 
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published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society; the first, and I 
may add, the only monograph that has appeared. It is accompanied 
with a figure of each species, but is defective, when compared with the 
present more extended state of information upon the subject. 
1814. Dr. Leach, in the first two volumes of his “ Zoological Miscel- 
lany,” gives descriptions and figures of various species of the insects 
of Australia. 
1817. Descriptions and engravings of several Australian insects were 
inserted by the late profound entomologist Latreille, in Cuvier’s 
“ Regne Animal” In the same year also appeared Schonherr’s “ Ap¬ 
pendix ad Synonymiam Insectorum, sistens Descriptiones novarum Spect¬ 
er um;” which, in addition, contains descriptions of some new species 
of Australian Coleopterous insects. 
1818. The learned entomologist of this country, the Rev. William 
Kirby, M.A. published two papers in the Transactions of the Linnean 
Society. The first of these he termed “A Century of Insects.” In the 
course of this he described several Australian Coleoptera. The other 
is styled “ A Description of several new species of Insects collected 
in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S.” Both these papers 
are accompanied by figures of the most remarkable species. 
1825. Many years afterwards M. le Comte Dejean commenced pub¬ 
lishing his “ Species general des Coleopteres” which contains descrip¬ 
tions of various new species of Australian Carabida. 
The Zoological Atlas of the “ Voyage de la Coquille autour du Monde, 
par le Chev. J. Duperrey,” was also commenced during the same year, 
and some Australian insects are figured in it by M. Guerin; but of 
these, the descriptions have not yet made their appearance. 
1826. The “Appendix of Natural History annexed to Captain P. P. 
