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INTRODUCTION. 
described the specimens collected by the late Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., 
while circumnavigating the globe with Captain Cook, which insects 
form a portion of the collection presented by that great patron of 
science during his lifetime to the Linnean Society, and now denomi¬ 
nated the Banksian Cabinet. It is to be regretted that some of these 
insects have become decayed. 
Olivier published, about the same time, his “Entomologie, on Histoire 
Naturelle des lnsectes” w T hich contains a few figures of the Banksian 
insects described by the former author. 
1802. “ Descriptions of some singular Insects [from New Holland], 
by Charles Schreiber,” were published in the Transactions of the 
Linnean Society. 
1805. Mr. Donovan published his Work entitled “An Epitome of 
the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland,” certainly one of 
the most elegant works on Entomology which had then appeared in 
this country; and the only one, up to the present period, which treats 
solely on the insects generally of that part of the world. In this he 
engraved one hundred and fifty-three species, some of which had been 
previously described by Fabricius, although others were then for the 
first time noticed. 
Mr. Lewin also published his “ Prodromus Entomology-, [stc/] 
Natural History of Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales;” all 
of which, except one, are nocturnal insects. This work is of o-reat 
utility and interest, on account of tlie figure of each, species being ac¬ 
companied with tliQse of its larva and chrysalis,—an example which 
it is to be hoped other residents will follow for the benefit of science. 
1808. Description of Notoclea, a new Genus of Coleopterous 
Insects from New Holland, by Thomas Marsham, Esq., Tr. L.S ” was 
