is, G.R. Gray, Waterhouse,
Shuckard, Newman, and Westwood have been the principal scientific men who
have attended to species of annulosa. Bennett, Mr. Surgeon Hunter, Darwin
and Major Mitchell, when opportunities offered, collected many species
and neglected not the subject of their habits; the last-mentioned having
also described (specifically) one or two species in his interesting work.
Macleay's Appendix to Captain King's voyage* is universally known.

(*Footnote. King (Captain Philip P., R.N., F.R.S. etc.) Narrative of a
Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia performed
between the years 1818 and 1822 2 volumes London 1827. Appendix Catalogue
of Insects collected by Captain King, R.N., 192 species of Annulosa, 188
Insects, 4 Arachnida pages 438 to 469; "eighty-one of the species are
new." In this paper Macleay institutes a Curculionidous genus near
Phalidura, which he names Hybauchenia, the type being H. nodulosa.
Carpophagus type C. Banksiae "would probably with Linnaeus have been a
Bruchus." Megamerus "has an affinity to Sagra, but differs from that
genus in having setiform antennae, porrect mandibles, and securiform
palpi, its habit is also totally different, and more like that of some of
those insects which belong to the heterogeneous magazine called Prionus;
it is undoubtedly the most singular and novel form in Captain King's
collection." Type M. kingii.)

Curtis and Haliday have published and are engaged in publishing the
description of Annulosa collected by Captain King, while those collected
by Mr. Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle have been entrusted to Mr.
Waterhouse, who has published descriptions of some in the Entomological
Society's Transactions and in the Annals of Natural History. Hope's
papers in the Zoological Transactions and the Coleopterist's Manual are
well known, as are Mr. Newman's in different Magazines and Annals. We
rejoice to see in a late number of a small periodical sheet exclusively
devoted to Entomology* and edited by this gentleman a letter from Mr.
Davis, containing some interesting information regarding the insects of
Adelaide; and in the same periodical there are many New Holland insects
described. Much may be expected from Messrs. Macleay and Swainson, both
at present in the South Sea islands, and it is to be hoped that in a
short time the fruits of their researches will be before the public. Mr.
Gould collected many insects on his Ornithological expedition