they unpleasingly call themselves,
or permit themselves to be called, are justly proud of their
horse-flesh."

1853. S. Sidney, `Three Colonies of Australia' (2nd edit.),
p. 171:

"One of the first acts of the Legislative Assemblies created by
the Australian Reform Bill of 1850 was to pass . . . acts
levelled against Van Diemonian expirees."

1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i, p. 367:

"Unquestionably some of the Van Diemenian convicts."

1867. `Cassell's Magazine,' p. 440:

"`I never wanted to leave England,' I have heard an old
Vandemonian observe boastfully. `I wasn't like one of these
`Jemmy Grants' (cant term for `emigrants'); I could always
earn a good living; it was the Government as took and sent me
out."

<hw>Vandemonianism</hw>, <i>n</i>. rowdy conduct like that of
an escaped convict; the term is now obsolete.

1863. `Victorian Hansard,' April 22, vol. ix. p. 701:

"Mr. Houston looked upon the conduct of hon. gentlemen opposite
as ranging from the extreme of vandemonianism to the extreme of
nambypambyism."

<hw>Van Diemen's Land</hw>, the name given to the colony now
called Tasmania, by Abel Jansz Tasman, the Dutch navigator,
in 1642, after Anthony Van Diemen, Governor-General of the
Dutch East Indies. The name was changed to <i>Tasmania</i>
(q.v.) in 1853, on the granting of Responsible Government.

<hw>Vedalia</hw>, <i>n</i>. a genus of greedily predatory
ladybirds. The <i>V. cardinalis</i> of Australia was imported
by the United States Government from Australia and New Zealand
into California in 1888-89, in order to kill the <i>fluted
scale</i> (<i>Icerya purchasi</i>), a fruit-pest. It destroyed
the scale in nine months.

<hw>Velvet-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given in Tasmania
to the fish <i>Holoxenus cutaneus</i>, Gunth., family
<i>Cirrhitidae</i>. The skin is covered with minute
appendages, so soft to the touch as to suggest velvet;
the colour is deep purplish red.

<hw>Verandah</hw>, <i>n</i>. In Australia, the heat of the sun
makes verandahs much commoner than in England. They are an
architectural feature of all dwelling-houses in suburb or in
bush, and of most City shops, where they render the broad
side-walks an almost continuous arcade. "Under the Verandah "
has acquired the meaning, "where city men most do congregate."

1873. A. Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,' c. xxvii.
p. 418:

"In Melbourne there is the `verandah'; in Sandhurst there is