Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2Grey, George
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Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Grey, George
Natural history -- Australia -- Western Australia; Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration
(*Footnote. The entomologist who would attempt to do this must give a
Universal Entomological Bibliography, as scarcely a Journal or volume of
Transactions of any Scientific Society appears without containing fewer
or more species from the great Australasian Continent and its islands.)
Messieurs Audouin, Blanchard, and Boisduval will shortly publish
descriptions of the insects etc. collected on D'Urville's last voyage.
Latreille, Dejean, Schoenherr, and Klug must be specially particularized;
Gory, Percheron, Chevrolat, Aube, Serville, Reiche, Spinola, Fischer, and
Mannerheim have all more or less added to our acquaintance with the
species. Many New Holland Arachnida and Pacific Ocean Crustacea have been
described in the well-known works of the Baron Walckenaer and Dr. Milne
Edwards. In this country Kirby, Hope, Curtis, 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.)
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