Tiliqua tuberculata, Gray King's Voyage 2 429.
Lacerta scincoides. Shaw Zool t. 81.
Scincus gigas, Bodd. S. crotaphomelas, Lacep. A. Museum H. N. 4 192. S.
tuberculatus, Merrem. 73.
Cyclodus flavigularis, Wagler Icon t. 6.
Inhabits New Holland; Java ?
9. Tiliqua casuarinae.
Cyclodus casuarinae, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 749.
Inhabits "New Holland," Dumeril.
10. Tiliqua nigrolutea, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 290.
Scincus nigroluteus, Quoy and Gaim. Voyage Uran t. 41.
Cyclodus nigroluteus, Wagler Syst. 162.
Inhabits New Holland.
11. Tiliqua trivittata ? Gray Syn. Griffith A. K. 68. Illust. Ind. Zool
t. Annals of Natural History 2 289.
Scincus ocellatus, and S. leuerinensis, Peron. manuscript. S. Whitei,
Lacep. Ann. Museum H. N. 4 192. S. taeniolatus and S. quadrilineatus,
Merrem. S. moniliger, Valenc. Museum Paris.
Inhabits New Holland, Peron. India.
12. Tiliqua taeniolata, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 289.
Lacerta taeniolata, Shaw Zool. 3 239. White Journal t. 32.
Scincus undecimstriatus, Kuhl Beytr. S. octolineatus, Daud. S. a dix
raies, Lacep. A. mus. H. N. 4 192.
S. multilineatus, Lesson Voyage Coq. t. 3 f. 2.
Inhabits New Holland, Sydney.
13. Tiliqua labillardieri, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 289.
Scincus labillardieri, Cocteau British Museum.
Lygosoma labillardieri, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 731.
Inhabits New Holland, Islands of Waigiou and Rawack.
14. Tiliqua napoleonis, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 290.
Scincus napoleonis, Cuv. British Museum. S. trifasciatus, Peron.
Tropidolepisma dumerilii, var. c. Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 745.
Psammite de Napoleon, Coct.
Inhabits "New Holland."
15. Tiliqua kingii, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 290.
Scincus nicittensis, Peron manuscript.
Psammite de Dumeril, Coct. Tab.
Tropidolepisma dumerilii beta, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 745.
Inhabits New Holland, British Museum.
16. Tiliqua aterrima.
Scincus aterrimus, Peron.
Tropidolepisma dumerilii alpha, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 745 t. 50.
Inhabits New Holland.
17. Tiliqua tenuis, Gray Griffith A.K. 71. Annals of Natural History 2
291.
Scincus erucotis, Peron manuscripts.
Lygosoma erucata, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 726.
Inhabits New Holland, British Museum.
18. Tiliqua stoddardtii, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 291.
Inhabits New Holland, Museum Chatham.
19. Tiliqua vachelli, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 291.
Inhabits New Holland, Museum Chatham.
20. Tiliqua leucopsis, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 291.
Inhabits New Holland, Museum Chatham.
21. Tiliqua australis, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 291.
Inhabits New Holland, British Museum.
22. Tiliqua buchananii, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 291.
Inhabits New Holland. British Museum.
23. Tiliqua trilineata, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 291.
Inhabits New Holland, British Museum.
24. Tiliqua duperreyii, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 292.
Scincus duperreyii, Cocteau.
Lygosoma duperreyii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 715.
Inhabits South Australia, Kangaroo Island.
25. Tiliqua entrecasteaux, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 292.?
Scincus entrecasteaux, Cocteau.
Lygosoma entrecasteaux, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 717.
Tiliqua reevesii, Gray Annals of Natural History 1 292 ?
Scinque a flanc noir, Quoy and Gaim. Voyage Uranie Zool. t. 42 f. 1 ?
Lygosoma quoyii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 728.
Inhabits New Holland. Var. beta China.
26. Tiliqua lesueurii.
Lygosoma lesueurii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 733.
Inhabits New Holland.
27. Tiliqua guichenoti.
Lygosoma guichenoti, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 713.
Inhabits New Holland.
28. Tiliqua bougainvilii, Coct.
Lygosoma bougainvillii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 716.
Inhabits New Holland.
29. Tiliqua naevia.
Scincus naevius, Peron. S. melanopogon, Muller. S. erythrolaemus, Muller.
Museum Leyd.
Lygosoma melanopogon, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 723.
Inhabits New Holland, New Guinea, and Timor.
30. Riopa bougainvillii, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 332.
Scincus bougainvillii, Cocteau.
Inhabits New Holland.
31. Lygosoma australis, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 332.
Inhabits New Holland, Museum Chatham.
32. Chiamela duvaucellii, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 333.
Scincus duvaucellii, Cocteau. Museum Paris. fide Bibron. Museum British.
Inhabits Australia, King George's Sound, Museum Paris.
33. Tetradactylus decresiensis, Peron. Cuv. Gray Annals of Natural
History 2 233. Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 764.
Inhabits Australia, King George's Sound, Kangaroo Island.
34. Tridactylus decresiensis, Peron. Gray Annals of Natural History 2
333.
Hemiergis decresiensis, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 766.
Zignis decresiensis, Fitz.
Inhabits Australia, Kangaroo Island.
35. Ronia catenulata, t. 4 f. 1. Gray Annals of Natural History 1841.
Inhabits Western Australia.
Family GYMNOPHTHALMIDAE.
36. Cryptoblepharis poecilopleurus, Gray Annals of Natural History 1 335.
Ablepharis poecilopleurus, Weigm. N. Act. Nat. Cuv. 17 183 t. 8 f. 1. A.
peronii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 813. A. leschenaultii, Coct. Mag.
Zool t. 1.
Crypt. peronii, Coct. Etudes, t.
Scincus boutonii, Desjard.
S. arenarius and S. furcatus, Museum Leyd.
Inhabits New Holland, Java, and Isle of France.
37. Cryptoblepharis lineo-ocellatus.
Ablepharis lineo-ocellatus, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 817.
Inhabits New Holland, Museum Paris.
Family LIALISIDAE.
38. Lialis burtonii, t. 3 f. 1 t. 5 f. 4. Gray Proceedings of the
Zoological Society 1834 134. Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 831.
Inhabits Australia, Western Australia.
Family PYGOPIDAE.
39. Pygopus lepidopus, Merrem Syn. 77.
Bipes lepidopode, Lacep. Ann. Museum H. N. 4 193, 209 t. 55 f. 1.
Sheltopusik novae hollandiae, Oppell.
Hysteropus lepidopus, Boug.
H. novae hollandiae, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 832.
Inhabits New Holland.
There are sometimes some scales between the anterior frontal plates.
40. Delma fraseri, t. 4 f. 3 Gray Zool. Misc.
Inhabits New Holland, Liverpool Plains ? Western Australia, J. Gould.
Family RHODONIDAE.
41. Rhodona punctata, Gray Annals of Natural History 2 335.
Brachystopus lineato-punctatus, A. Smith manuscript ? Dumeril and Bibron
Erp. Gen. 5 779.
Inhabits New Holland, South Africa, Dumeril !
42. Soridia lineata, t. 3 f. 2 Gray Annals of Natural History 2 335.
Prepaeditus lineatus, Dumeril and Bibron 5 788.
Inhabits Australia, Western Australia, J. Gould, common.
43. Chelomeles quadrilineatus, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 5 774.
Inhabits New Holland, Museum Paris.
Family APRASIADAE.
44. Aprasia pulchella, t. 4 f. 2 Gray Annals of Natural History 2 331.
Inhabits Western Australia.
Family GECKOTIDAE.
45. Platydactylus ornatus, Gray.
Phelsuma ornata, Gray King's Voyage 2 428.
Inhabits New Holland.
46. Phyllodactylus strophurus, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 3 397 t. 32
f. 1.
Inhabits West Coast of Australia, Shark Bay, Quoy and Gaimard.
47. Phyllodactylus porphyreus, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 3 393.
Gecko porphyreus, Daud.
Sphaerodactylus porphyreus, Wagler.
Inhabits New Holland.
48. Phyllodactylus lesueurii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 3 392.
Inhabits New Holland and New Guinea.
49. Diplodactylus vittatus, Gray Proceedings of the Zoological Society
1832 40.
Phyllodactylus vittatus, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 3 400.
Inhabits New Holland, Liverpool Plains.
50. Peropus variegatus.
Hemidactylus variegatus, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 3 353.
Inhabits West Coast of Australia, Shark Bay, and Van Diemen's Land.
51. Phyllurus platurus, Cuv. R. A. 2 58. P. cuvieri, Borg.
Lacerta platura, Shaw. White Journal New South Wales 246 t. 3 f. 2. L.
discosura, Lacep.
Stellio phyllurus, Schneider. S. platurus, Daud.
Gecko platicaudus, Schinz.
Agama platyura and A. discosura, Merrem.
Gymnodactylus platurus, Wagler.
G. phyllurus, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 3 428.
Cyrtodactylus platurus, Gray.
Inhabits New Holland.
52. Phyllurus miliusii, Bory St. Vincent Dict. Class H. N. 7 183 t.
Cyrtodactylus miliusii, Gray.
Gymnodactylus miliusii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 3 450 t. 33 f. 1.
Inhabits New Holland, Museum Paris.
Family AGAMIDAE.
53. Chlamydosaurtis kingii, Gray King's Voyage Australia 2 424 t. Dumeril
and Bibron Erp. Gen. 4 441 t. 45. Inhabits West Coast of Australia,
Careening Bay, A. Cunningham, Esquire, Port Nelson. Captain Grey sent a
fine specimen of this species to the Museum during his travels.
54. Lophura lesueurii, Gray Syn. Griffith A. K. 60.
Istiurus lesueurii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 4.
Inhabits Australia, New Holland.
55. Grammatophora barbata, Kaup Isis. Gray. Dumeril and Bibron ?
Agama barbata, Cuv. R. A. 2 35.
Inhabits New Holland.
56. Grammatophora muricata, Kaup Isis 1827 621. Gray. Dumeril and Bibron.
Lacerta muricata, Shaw Zool. 3 t. 63 f. 1.
Agama muricata, Daud. A. jacksoniensis, Kuhl. Guerin Icon t. 3 f.
Amphibolus muricatus, Wiegmann.
Inhabits New Holland.
Var. 1 diemenensis, Gray Annals of Natural History 1840.
Inhabits Van Diemen's Land.
Var. 2 adelaidensis. Gray Annals of Natural History 1840.
Inhabits Western Australia, Adelaide.
57. Grammatophora gaimardii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 4 470.
Inhabits West Coast of Australia, Shark Bay.
58. Grammatophora decresii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 4 472.
Inhabits Australia, Kangaroo Island.
Var. 1. Inhabits Western Australia.
59. Grammatophora cristata, Gray Annals of Natural History 1840.
Inhabits Western Australia, J. Gould.
60. Moloch horridus, t. 2. Gray Annals of Natural History 1841.
Inhabits Western Australia, Captain G. Grey. J. Gould.
61. Uromastix griseus, Cuv. R. A. 2 34.
Inhabits "New Holland." Peron.
It is very probable that this species was established on a variety or
discoloured specimen of U. hardwickii, and it is very doubtful if it is a
native of New Holland.
Family CHAMAELEONIDAE.
62. Chamaeleo bifurcus, Brongn. Bull. Soc. Philom. number 36 f. 2.
Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 3 233 t. 27 f. 3.
Cham. bifidus, Latr.
Inhabits "New Holland."
Messieurs Dumeril and Bibron, in the work cited, state that this species
is found in New Holland, but I believe this is a mistake, as I have
neither seen nor heard of any species of this genus being found in
Australia.
Order 2. OPHIDII.
Family VIPERIDAE.
63. Acanthophis palpebrosa. A. cerastinus, Lacep. Ann. Museum 4 100.
Guerin Icon. t. 24 f. 2.
A. brownii, Leach Zool. Misc. 1 t. 3.
Boa palpebrosa, Shaw Zool. 3 362.
Ophryas acanthophis, Merrem. 147.
Schlingende Natter, Merrem Beytr. 2 t. 3.
Vipera acanthophis, Schlegel. 2 605 t. 21 f. 21, 22, 23.
Inhabits New Holland.
Family COLUBRIDAE.
64. Tropidonotus mairii, Gray.
Inhabits New Holland, Dr. Mair, 39th Regiment Museum Chatham.
65. Leptophis punctulatus, Gray, King's Voyage 2 432.
Inhabits Careening Bay, James Hunter, Esquire.
66. Leptophis spilotus, Gray, King's Voyage 2 433.
Inhabits Australia Cape, P.P. King, R.N.
67. Naja custa, Schlegel Phy. Serp. 2 486.
Inhabits Australia, King George's Sound, Museum Paris.
68. Naja bungaroides, Schlegel Phys. Serp. 2 477.
Inhabits New Holland, Port Jackson, and India, Museum Paris.
Var. 1. New Holland. Dr. Mair.
69. Trimesurus leptocephalus, Lacep. Ann. Museum 4 196 t. 56 f. 1.
Crimson-sided Snake, Coluber porphyraicus, Shaw Zool. t. 110. New
Holland, t. 10.
Hurria porphyraica, Merrem.
Boa laevis, Lacep. Ann. Museum 4 195.
Duberia porphyriaca, Fitz.
Acanthophis tortor, Lesson Voyage t. 6. Guerin Icon. t. 24 f. 1.
Pseudechis porphyriacus, Wagler.
Alecto, Wagler.
Oplocephalus, Cuv. R. Anim. 2 94.
Naja porphyraica, Schlegel. 1 181 2 479 t. 17 f. 6, 7.
Inhabits New Holland, Sidney.
70. Trimesurus olivaceus, Gray.
Inhabits New Holland, Dr. Mair.
71. Calimaria diadema, 65 f. 3. Schlegel Phys. Serp. 1 131 2 32.
Inhabits Australia, New Holland, Quoy and Dr. Mair.
Western Australia, Mr. Gould.
72. Calimaria annulata, Gray.
Snake, n. 2. White Journal Appendix 259 t. f. 2.
Inhabits New Holland, Dr. Lewis.
73. Tortrix pseudo-eryx, Schlegel Phys. Serp. 1 128 2 19.
Inhabits New Holland, Port Jackson, Peron.
74. Tortrix australis, Gray.
Inhabits New Holland, Museum Chatham, n. 68.
75. Elaps psammophis, Schlegel Phys. Serp. 1 182 2 454.
Inhabits New Holland.
76. Elaps coronatus, Schlegel Phys. Serp. 1 184 2 454.
Inhabits New Holland.
77. Elaps gouldii, t. 5 f. 1. Gray Annals of Natural History 1841.
Inhabits Western Australia.
78. Elaps ? lewisii, Gray.
Inhabits New Holland, Dr. Lewis.
Family BOIDAE.
79. Python spilotes.
P. punctatus, Merrem Tent. 150.
P. peronii, Cuv. R. A. Wagner, Icon. t. 1.
Coluber spilotes, Lacep. Ann. Museum 4 195.
Echidna spilotes, Merrem.
Australian Snake, Shaw's Zool. 505.
Snake, n. 1. and 5. White Voyage Appendix 159 t. f. 5 and t. f. 1.
Inhabits New Holland, White. King George's Sound, Quoy.
Family HYDRIDAE.
80. Aspisurus laticaudatus.
Coluber laticaudatus, Linn. Museum Ad. t. 16 f. 1.
Platura fasciata, Latreille.
Pl. semi-fasciata, Reinw.
Laticauda imbricata, Laur.
Aspisurus laevis, Lacep. Ann. Museum 4 197 t. 56 f. 3.
Hydrus colubrinus, Schlegel Phys. Serp. 514 t. 18 f. 18 to 22.
Inhabits New Holland.
81. Pelamis bicolor, Daud.
Anguis platura, Linn. S. N. 391.
Hydrophis platura, Latr.
Hydrus bicolor, Schneider.
Inhabits New Holland. Port Jackson, Forster.
82. Disteria doliata, Lacep. Ann. Museum 4 199 t. 57. f. 2.
Hydrophis schistosus, Daud. Schlegel Phys. Serp. 500.
Inhabits New Holland.
Order 3. CHELONIA.
Family CHELYDAE.
83. Platemys macquaria, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 2 458.
Hydraspis macquaria, Gray Syn. Rept. 1 40.
Emys macquaria, Cuv. R. Anim. 2 11.
Inhabits New Holland ?
84. Hydraspis australis, t. 6. new species.
Inhabits.
85. Chelodina longicollis, Gray Syn. Rep. 39. C. novae hollandae, Dumeril
and Bibron Erp. Gen. 2 445 t. 21 f. 2.
Testudo longicollis, Shaw Gen. Zool. 3 62 t. 16. Zool. New Hol. 1 19 t.
7.
Emys longicollis, Schw. Prod. 1 309, 433.
Hydraspis longicollis. Bell Zool. Journal 3 512.
Inhabits New Holland, Sydney.
86. Chelodina oblonga, t. 7 new species.
Inhabits Western Australia.
Family CHELONIADAE.
87. Chelonia caretta.
Testudo caretta, Solander manuscript Banks Icon. ined. in British Museum
n. 41, 42, 43.
Inhabits Sea. Latitude 37 South, December 23 1768. Captain Cook.
88. Chelonia imbricata.
Inhabits Sea, New Holland, New Guinea.
89. Chelonia mydas.
Testudo mydas, Solander manuscript. Banks Icon. ined. in British Museum
n. 39, 40.
Inhabits New Holland, Endeavour River, Cook's Voyage.
Order EMYDOSAURI.
Family CROCODILIDAE.
90. Crocodilus vulgaris, Cuv. Ann. Mus. 10 40 t. 1 f. 5 12 t. 2 f. 7.
Inhabits New Holland, Mouth of Endeavour River, Captain Cook.
Class AMPHIBIA.
Family RANIDAE.
91. Cystignathus peronii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 409.
Inhabits New Holland ? Peron.
92. Cystignathus dorsalis, Gray Annals of Natural History 1841.
Inhabits Western Australia.
93. Crinia georgiana, Tschudi, 2 78.
Cystignathus georgianus, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 416.
Inhabits Australia, King George's Sound.
94. Heleioporus albopunctatus, tab. 1 f. 2 Gray Annals of Natural History
1841.
Inhabits Western Australia.
Family HYLIDAE.
95. Litoria freycinetii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 504 t. 88 f. 2.
Inhabits New Holland, Port Jackson.
90. Hyla peronii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 569.
Dendrohyas peronii, Tschudi, 75.
Inhabits New Holland, Peron.
97. Hyla coerulea.
Hyla cyanea, Daud. Schlegel. Dum.
Blue Frog, White Journal Appendix 248.
Rana australasiae, Schneider.
R. coerulea, Shaw Gen. Zool. 3 113. Daud. Mer.
Calamites cyanea, Fitz. Tschudi.
Calamites coerulea, Wagler.
Inhabits New Holland, New Guinea, Timor.
98. Hyla jervisiensis, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 580.
Inhabits New Holland, Jervis Bay.
99. Hyla lesueurii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 595. H. oculata, Peron
manuscript.
Inhabits New Holland, Port Jackson.
100. Hyla ewingii, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 597.
Inhabits Van Diemen's Land.
101. Hyla citropa, Peron and Lesueur. Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 600.
Dendrohyas citropa, Tschudi, 75.
Inhabits New Holland, Port Jackson.
102. Hyla aurea.
Rana aurea, Lesson Voyage Coq. t. 7 f. 2.
Hyla jacksoniensis, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 602.
Ranoidea jacksoniensis, Tschudi.
Inhabits New Holland, Port Jackson.
103. Hyla adelaidensis, t. 8 f. 2. Gray Annals of Natural History 1841.
Inhabits Western Australia.
104. Hyla bioculata, t. 8 f. 1. Gray Annals of Natural History 1841.
Inhabits Western Australia.
105. Uperoleja marmorata, Gray Annals of Natural History 1841.
Inhabits Western Australia.
Family BUFONIDAE.
106. Phreniscus australis, Dumeril and Bibron Erp. Gen. 8 725.
Bombinator australis, Gray Proceedings of the Zoological Society.
Inhabits New Holland.
107. Breviceps gouldii; Gray Annals of Natural History 1841.
Breviceps heliogabali, Gray, tab. 1 f. 1.
Inhabits Western Australia.
I have been induced to add to the foregoing list the following
observations on the more obscure and hitherto unknown genera and species.
RONIA, Gray. Head rather shelving, shielded with one transverse frontal
and two large vertebral plates, the hinder largest; the rostral plates
large, with two unequal superciliary plates. The nasal plate triangular,
interposed between the rostral plate and the frontal ones, with the
nostrils in its centre; loreal plates two, square; labial plates large;
ears none, only a very indistinct sunk dot in their place. Body
cylindrical; tail conical, tapering. Scales smooth, ovate, imbricate,
those of the belly 6-sided. The front limbs very small, rudimentary,
undivided; the hinder limbs moderately developed, ending in two very
unequal toes, with distinct claws.
35. Ronia catenulata, Gray, t. 4 f. 1.
Back grey, with eight series of small black dots, one dot on the centre
of each scale; cheeks black speckled; sides and beneath whitish.
Body 3 1/2, tail 2 1/2 inches.
Inhabits Western Australia. Mr. J. Gould.
The scales under the tail are rather larger, and the spots on the tail
are also rather larger than those on the back.
38. Lialis burtonii, t. 3 f. 1. Gray Proceedings of the Zoological
Society 1834 134. Dumeril and Bibron H. R. 831.
Pale brown, back with three longitudinal brown streaks, each occupying
half of two series of scales; the centre streak divided into two over the
nape and head, uniting together again over the tip of the nose.
Inhabits Western Australia. J. Gould.
Family Pygopidae.
Head short, with two or three pairs of narrow frontal shields, similar
to, and behind the nasal shield, with two odd large vertebral shields;
nostrils oblong, in the suture between the outer angle of the nasal
shield and the front loreal shields; ears distinct, tympanum sunk; eyes
surrounded with a series of scales; belly with two or four series of
broad 6-sided ventral shields; tail with three series of broader shields,
the central the broadest; limbs two, rudimentary, undivided, scaly, on
the side of the vent; throat covered with small scales; lower labial
plates large.
Pygopus. The scales of the back keeled, with a series of numerous
praeanal pores; pupil round; the hinder limbs elongate.
Delma. The scales smooth; praeanal pores none; pupil elliptical, erect;
hinder limbs short.
42. Soridia lineata, t. 3, f. 2.
M. Bibron in the work quoted observes: La Soridia lineata de M. Gray
n'est pas different d'une espece de Scincoiden du Cap que nous avons vue
dans la collection de M. Smith a Chatham et de laquelle nous avions pris
une description qui s'est malheureusement egaree. Page 787. And again:
Nous croyons que c'est par erreur que M. Gray a indique cette espece
comme provenant de la Nouvelle Hollande, nous pensons plutot qu'elle est
originaire du Cap, et la meme que celle dont nous parlions tout a l'heure
ou le Scincoidien que d'accord avec le Dr. Smith nous nous proposions
d'appeller Praepeditus lineatus. Page 788.
I do not know what Dr. Smith's animal may be, but the account of
Praepeditus, given by M. Bibron, is only a translation of my description
of Soridia! It is not probable that this animal should come both from
Australia and the Cape. It is certainly from New Holland.
44. APRASIA.
The head small, shielded; muzzle rounded, rather produced, with two pairs
of large frontal shields, covering the cheeks, a large six-sided
elongated vertebral shield, and a pair of small superciliar shields;
rostral and labial shields large, few; the nostrils small, in the sutures
between the tip of the front upper labial, and the anterior frontal
plates; eyes circular, edged with a series of small scales; pupil round;
ears none; body and tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with hexangular
scales, the ventral shields rather broader; limbs none.
By some mistake the slip containing the description of this genus in my
synopsis of the slender-tongued Saurians got into the wrong place with
the Tiliquae instead of being near Anguis.
56. Grammatophora muricata.
The young animals have a series of small spines on each side of the base
of the tail, and a series of spots on each side of the back.
Mr. Gould has brought home two very distinct local varieties.
Var. 1 diemenensis. Young dark-coloured, with vermiculated marks on the
chin, chest, and abdomen. The adult dark, beneath gray, varied with black
spots placed in irregular lines.
Inhabits Van Diemen's Land.
Var. 2 adelaidensis. Young pale above and beneath, with three broad
diverging black lines on the chin, leaving an oblong spot in the centre
of the throat, with a broad streak on the chest separated into three
lines on the abdomen, which unite together again on the pubis. The adult
gray, with a few spots beneath.
58. Grammatophora decresii, Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 4 472. ?
Tail conical, with nearly regular scales, the base rather swollen,
without any series of spines on the side; the nape and back with a series
of rather larger, low, compressed scales; back with small sub-equal
scales, and a few larger ones in cross series; side of the head near the
ears and side of neck with two or three ridges crowned with short conical
spines. In spirits black, yellow spotted and varied, beneath gray,
vermiculated with blackish; tail black-ringed.
Inhabits Western Australia.
So much smaller than G. muricata that I might have considered them as
young animals if one of them had not had the body filled with well-formed
eggs; and the tail is much shorter in comparison than even in the young
of that species.
They agree in most points with the description given by Messieurs Dumeril
and Bibron, but not in the colour and in the size of the tail. The
specimens in our collection greatly differ in their colour, but are all
very different from any other species.
59. Grammatophora cristata. Nape with a crest of distinct, rather short,
curved, compressed, spinose scales; back and tail with a series of
compressed keeled scales, forming a slight keel; occiput with separate
short strong conical spines: sides of the neck and back with folds
crowned with series of short compressed scales; base of the tail with
some scattered larger scales. In spirits, dull olive; crown black with
large white spots, beneath black; middle of the belly, and undersides of
the base of the tail white; tail with black rings at the end; feet
whitish.
Inhabits Western Australia. Mr. J. Gould.
The underside is coloured somewhat like G. maculatus (G. gaimardii,
Dumeril and Bibron) but the sides of the head near the ears are spinose,
and the nape is distinctly crested.
But as Dumeril and Bibron's species is only described from a single
specimen which is in a bad state, and has lost its epidermis, and as the
description itself, though long, refers chiefly to parts which do not
differ in the species of the genus, this species may prove not to be
different from it.
These authors, in giving the character of Grammatophora gaimardii and G.
decresii, appears to place great reliance on the one having tubular and
the other non-tubular femoral pores, which is a fact entirely dependent
on the state in which the animal might be at the time when it was put
into the spirits, as I have verified by comparing numerous specimens of
different reptiles furnished with these pores.
But in this genus the size of the pores is apparently of less importance
than in many others, for they appear to be quite invisible in some states
of the animal: thus out of many specimens of G. muricata brought by Mr.
Gould from Van Diemen's Land and Western Australia, eight specimens have
no visible pores; these specimens differ from the others in being of a
rather paler colour beneath. This state of the pores may entirely depend
on the manner in which they were preserved, for all these specimens had a
slit made into their abdomen to admit the spirits; while in all the
specimens in which this care had not been taken the pores are distinctly
seen, sometimes moderately sized, and at others tubularly produced.
60. MOLOCH, Gray.
Body depressed, covered with irregular, unequal, small, granular plates,
each furnished with a more or less prominent central spine, and with a
series of large, conical, convex, acute spines; head and limbs covered
with similar scales and spines; head small, with very large spines over
each of the eyebrows; tail with irregular rings of large acute spines;
femoral and subanal pores none; teeth small, subequal; toes 5.5, short,
covered above and below with keeled scales; claws long, acute.
The external appearance of this Lizard is the most ferocious of any that
I know, the horns of the head and the numerous spines on the body giving
it a most formidable aspect. The scales of the back are small and
unequal; they gradually increase in size as they approach the base of the
conical spines, which is surrounded with a ring of larger scales with
longer spines; the large spines are conical; rather compressed, spinulose
below, smooth and acute at the tip, and are usually furnished with a
sharp-toothed ridge on the front edge, and sometimes on both. These
spines only consist of a horny sheath, placed on a fleshy process of the
exact form and appearance of the spines they bear.
The scales of the underside of the body are of the same form as those of
the back, and are furnished with similar but smaller and less produced
spines. The back of the neck of the two specimens I have seen is
furnished with a large rounded protuberance like a cherry, covered with
large granular spinous scales, and armed on each side with a large
conical spine; but I do not know if this is common to the species or
merely accidental in these individuals; at any rate it adds considerably
to the singularity of their appearance.
I have named this genus, from its appearance, after "Moloch, horrid
king."
60. Moloch horridus, t. 2.
Pale yellow, marked with dark regular spots; sides and beneath with
black-edged dark red similar spots.
Inhabits Western Australia. The Honourable Captain G. Grey, and John
Gould, Esquire.
The marks on the body are very definite, but from the irregularity of
their form they are not easily described.
The lips are dark brown, with two streaks up to the small spines on the
forehead; there is a dark cross-band from the base of the two large horns
over the eyebrows, running behind, and then dividing into broad streaks,
one along each side of the centre of the back of the neck to between the
shoulders, crossing the nuchal swelling. In the middle of the back there
is a very large black patch nearly extending from side to side, and over
the loins are two oblong longitudinal black spots; the dark lines
commencing from the lower angle of each eye extend along the upper part
of each side to the upper part of the groin; the front of the fore- and
hind-legs, and the sides are marked with similar dark bands.
A dark band commences from the hinder part of the lower lip, merging in
the throat, and expanding out so as to be united together at the back
part of the chin. There is a large rather oblong spot in the centre of
the chest and the hinder part of the abdomen, separated from each other
by a large somewhat triangular spot on each side of the middle of the
abdomen.
Body 4 1/2 inches.
This is the Spinous Lizard exhibited by Mr. Gould at the meeting of the
Zoological Society in October 1840.
64. Tropidonotus mairii, Gray.
Olive, beneath pale olive, vertebral scales darker, slightly spotted;
labial shield pale, dark edged. The dorsal and lateral scales keeled,
placed in longitudinal series; the keels continued, equal; chin shields
two pairs, long; throat scaly on the sides, shielded in the middle;
loreal shields equal; one high anterior, and three small posterior ocular
shields; temples shielded; nostrils in the suture between the scales; the
anterior frontal narrow, moderate; eyes large, convex, pupil round.
Inhabits New Holland, Dr. Mair, 39th Regiment.
White, in the Appendix to his Journal, mentions and figures two snakes
(n. 1 and 2 page 258) but his descriptions are so short, and his figures
so indistinct, compared with what are now required to determine the
species of snakes, that I am unable to apply them with certainty to any
of the species here recorded.
68. Naja bungaroides, var.
Brown. Varied with a few whitish cross bands; last series of scales and
beneath whitish ventral shield black in front; subcaudal plates,
one-rowed; throat scaly; chin shields two pairs; eyes lateral, pupil
round; front pair of frontal plates short; nostrils lateral, in two small
shields, loreal shields none; one large anterior, and two moderate
posterior ocular shields; lower temporal shield in the labial ones.
Scales quite smooth, broad.
Inhabits New Holland. Dr. Mair.
69. Trimesurus leptocephalus.
Lacepede described this species twice, once as a Boa, and then as a
Trimesurus. Mr. Schlegel observes that there is one of Baudin's original
specimens in the Leyden collection, and that the scales are not in the
least keeled, though Lacepede described them to be so. Lesson believing
it to be an undescribed species formed for it his genus Acanthophis;
Wagler has also formed two genera for this single species; and Cuvier
formed from a variety of it with subcaudal bands a third genus, under the
name of Oplocephalus.
70. Trimesurus olivaceus, Gray.
Olive-green, scales black; head dark with a black streak along each side,
enclosing the eyes and united by a black band across the nape; lips, and
beneath white; lips and chin black dotted, front of ventral shields
blackish, throat scaly, chin shields two pairs. Under the epidermis
bluish green; body elongate, tapering; tail moderate tapering, subeaudal
shields one-rowed, longer towards the tip; scales all smooth, imbricated,
subequal, rather larger below; head small, rather tapering in front,
rounded; eyes rather small, pupil round, head shields normal; the
nostrils lateral in the suture between two shields, hinder shield
elongate; loreal shields none; one large anterior and two moderate
post-ocular shields; labial shields subequal, lower temporal inserted.
Inhabits New Holland. Dr. Mair.
71. Calamaria diadema, t. 5 f. 3.
Body cylindrical, scales small; ventral shields brown, rounded; tail
rather short, tapering; subcaudal plates two, round. Head small,
indistinct, moderately long; head shields normal, first frontal small;
nostril lunate, in the middle of a triangular nasal shield; no loreal;
one rather large upper anterior, two posterior ocular shields, lowest
largest; temples shielded; labial shield moderate. White dorsal scales
with a distinct brown edge; head and nape black, with a broad white
occipital band; beneath white.
New Holland. Dr. Mair.
72. Calamaria annulata, Gray. Snake, n. 2. White's Journal Appendix 259
f. 2.
White (in spirits) with twenty-eight black rings (twenty-five on the body
and three on the tail;) head with two black bands, one on the end of the
nose and the other with the eyes in front of it. Tip of the tail black;
eyes small, pupil round; nostrils in the centre of a shield, lateral,
erect; loreal shields none; one anterior oblique, and two small
post-ocular shields.
Inhabits New Holland. Dr. Lewis.
74. Tortrix australis.
Pale olive, scales black-edged, on the sides widest; beneath bluish, with
a white edged black band across the end of the muzzle; a white band
before the front and back of the eyes, and a triangular black spot at the
lower hinder angle of the eyes; pupil round; one large and two posterior
ocular shields, no loreal shields; nostrils lateral, in the suture
between the two nasal shields; scales smooth imbricate, those of the
sides larger, of the tail six-sided.
77. Elaps gouldii, Gray, t. 5 f. 1.
Pale yellowish; the scales of the back small, 6-sided, with a dark
anterior margin, giving the back a netted appearance. Top of the head and
nape black, with a yellow spot on the rostral scale on each side just
before the eyes. Head small, the occipital plates large elongate; the
nasal plate triangular; one moderate anterior, and two subequal posterior
ocular shields; six upper and lower labial shields, the fourth under the
eyes; eyes small, pupil round. There is an indistinct small yellow spot
behind the upper part of the eye; but this may be an accidental variety,
as the spots on the two sides are not equally defined.
Inhabits Western Australia.
This species resembles Calamaria diadema, which is also found in Western
Australia, but it is larger, and the head is larger in comparison with
the body, and in this species it is the base of scales, while in the
later it is the outer margin, that is dark.
78. Elaps lewisii, Gray.
Olive green, submetallic; edge of the scales blackish; upper lip, chin,
and ventral plates greenish-white; head moderate, elongate, depressed;
head shields normal; hinder frontal and front of superciliary shield
expanded on the sides, and bent down on the cheeks. Nostrils in the
suture between the two small nasal plates. Loreal plates small oblong;
one small front and two smaller posterior oculars. Temples shielded;
labial plates moderate; chin shields two pair; middle of the throat
shielded, sides scaly. Eyes large, pupil rounded; body elongate,
sub-cylindrical, moderately thick, covered with cross bands of elongated
narrow scales. The vertebral series broad, six-sided, long; of the nape,
small, like those on the sides; of the tail, broader and more uniform;
ventral plates distinctly keeled and erect on the sides. Tail elongate,
tapering, with two rows of shields, keeled on the sides.
80. Hydrus.
Captain G. Grey informs me that these snakes coil themselves upon the
shore, living on the seaweed, and that they lay their eggs on the shore.
They are often found asleep upon the sea, when they are easily caught, as
they cannot sink without first throwing themselves on the back, probably
to empty their large vesicular lungs.
83. Platemys macquaria.
This species was originally indicated by Cuvier, from a single specimen
brought from the Macquarie River by Messieurs Lesson and Garnot. It has
been doubted if it really is an inhabitant of that country, and might not
have been imported from South America, whence all the other species of
the genus come, and sold to the French collectors for a native species.
84. Hydraspis australis, t. 6.
Body ovate, back dark olive, rather convex, rounded on the middle of the
sides, with a narrow reflexed edge, shelving behind with a broad expanded
margin; vertebral shields broad, six-sided, last subtriangular; beneath
rather convex, yellow, shelving on the sides; the second marginal plate
with an angular lobe produced into the suture between the vertebral and
first costal plates; claws sharp, black; skin of head and limbs smooth.
Inhabits Western Australia ?
The back covered with conferva.
85. Chelodina longicollis.
Mr. Gould brought two large specimens of this species, which are much
more ovate and convex than Dr. Shaw's specimens. They are 7 inches long
by 6 wide. It may be a particular variety, or they may become more ovate
as they increase in size, The sternal shields (in specimens preserved in
brine) are pale yellow, with black edges.
86. Chelodina oblonga, t. 7.
Shell oblong, rather contracted in front, with a broad impression on the
middle of the back; back olive brown, with irregular anastomosing lines
on the shields; beneath reddish-yellow. The marginal plates longer than
broad, the second larger than the first and third; and rather angularly
produced in the middle of the inner edge, opposite the suture between the
first dorsal and first costal plate; the sternum high, flat, strongly and
sharply keeled on the sides.
Inhabits Western Australia.
This species is at once known from Chelodina longicollis by the form of
its high, flat sternum, which is strongly keeled on the sides, and by
this part being of a uniform reddish colour, without any dark margin to
the plates; the hinder part of the sternum is only slightly concavely
truncated, and not deeply notched.
It is also known from that old well-known species by its oblong depressed
form, and by the form of the marginal plates, and especially from the
second and eleventh marginal plates on each side being placed more
forwards, so that the centre of their inner edge is opposite the suture
of the first and last costal plates with the dorsal ones; instead of
their front margin, as is the case with all the specimens of Chelodina
longicollis I have seen.
This species grows to a large size. Mr. Gould brought a specimen which he
gave to Mr. Bell, which is 11 inches long, and the neck is nearly equally
long, very thick, and studded with large warts; the head is broad and
depressed, covered with a thin skin, like a Trionyx, and marked with
small thin scales.
92. Cystignathus dorsalis.
The palatine teeth in a single large straight line, just behind the inner
nostrils; tongue large, slightly nicked behind, the tympanum nearly hid
under the skin; gray-brown (in spirits) marbled with dark irregular
spots, with a white streak down the middle of the forehead and front of
the back; sides pure white, spotted and marbled with black; beneath
white; toes elongate, slender, tapering; back part of thighs brown, white
speckled.
Inhabits Western Australia. Mr. Gould.
This species is very distinct from C. peronii and C. georgianus, the two
Australian species described by Messieurs Dumeril and Bibron. It agrees
with the former in the disposition of the palatine teeth.
HELIOPORUS, Gray.
Head short, swollen; eyes large, convex; palatine teeth in a straight
interrupted ridge between the two internal nostrils; teeth very small;
body swollen; skin of the back minutely granular, of the belly smooth;
legs rather short; toes 4.5, short, warty beneath, quite free; the hind
wrist with a large, oblong, compressed, internal tubercle; the base of
the inner finger with a conical wart, ending in a small acute bony
process; tongue large, entire behind.
This genus has many of the characters of Cystignathus, but differs from
it in being warty and swollen, and in having short toes like a toad.
94. Helioporus albo punctatus, t. 1 f. 2.
Lead-coloured (in spirits) with white spots; beneath dirty white, with
some small white warts at the angle of the mouth; legs smooth.
Inhabits Western Australia.
103. Hyla Adelaidensis, Gray, t. 8 f. 2.
Slender; fore-toes quite free, hinder toes webbed to the last joint; (in
spirits) gray-blue, with a series of small oblong tubercles; the sides
purple-brown with a white streak from the underside of the eyes to the
shoulders; sides of the belly and region of the vent purplish, with small
white spots; the hinder side of the thighs purple-brown, with three large
oblong white spots; belly and under side of thighs granular; chin white,
brownish dotted; palatine teeth in two roundish groups between the
internal nostrils.
Inhabits Western Australia.
104. Hyla binoculata, Gray, t. 8, f. 1.
Slender; fore-toes quite free; hinder toes webbed to the last joint.
Grayish white (in spirits) with a series of very small, indistinct,
oblong tubercles, with a dark streak from the nostrils to the shoulder,
enclosing the eyes, and a white streak below it from the underside of the
eye; sides purplish, with small white spots; back of the thighs purple,
with two yellow spots; belly and underside of thighs whitish, granular.
Var. 1. Back of thighs with one or two additional yellow spots.
Var. 2. Back bluish gray; back of the thighs with six or seven small
subequal yellow spots.
Inhabits Western Australia.
UPEROLEIA, Gray.
Head large; palate quite toothless; upper jaw with small close teeth;
tympanum hid under the skin; toes of the fore and hind feet elongate,
slender, quite free; ankle with a roundish external and a small conical
inner tubercle; tongue small, oblong, roundish, and entire behind.
This genus is most nearly allied to Leiuperus of Messieurs Dumeril and
Bibron, with which it agrees in having no teeth on the palate, but it
differs from it in the tympanum being quite hid.
The internal nostrils are some distance in front of the cross-ridge on
which the palatine teeth are generally placed.
105. Uperoleia marmorata.
Black and green marbled, leaving a triangular greenish spot on the
forehead, beneath lead colour.
Inhabits Western Australia.
Dr. Tschudi has formed a genus under the name of Crinia, which appears by
his characters to be nearly related to the above; but Messieurs Dumeril
and Bibron (Erp. Gen. 8 416) observe that the specimens he described have
two very small groups of teeth on the vomer.
107. Breviceps gouldii, t. 1 f. 1.
Smooth, with a few scattered low tubercles; gray-brown (in spirits),
yellowish beneath.
Inhabits Western Australia.
This animal has all the external appearance and character, as far as they
are given in Messieurs Dumeril and Bibron's work, of the Breviceps
gibbosus of the Cape of Good Hope, except that it has not the yellow
dorsal band, and the back is scarcely to be designated as granular. It is
the second species of the genus, and only the second Toad found in
Australia.
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APPENDIX F.
Notes on some Insects from King George's Sound, collected and presented
to the British Museum by CAPTAIN GEORGE GREY, by ADAM WHITE, Esquire,
British Museum, in a letter addressed to the author.
DEAR SIR,
Fabricius was the first, or among the earliest, Entomologists who
described the Annulose animals of New Holland, New Zealand, and the
Pacific Islands. At the time he published his Systema Entomologiae (1775)
these parts of the world had been visited by but few persons, and I
believe that all the species he described as coming from them he found in
the collection which was made by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander on
their well-known voyage with Captain Cook; that collection was presented
to the Linnean Society of London. Several of the original specimens have
been figured in the works of Olivier and Donovan, and it is perhaps
unnecessary to say that modern Entomologists often refer to these
specimens as the typical examples. As far as I am aware the next
important addition to the Entomology of New Holland was made by Dr.
Schreibers of Vienna,* which was followed by that of Mr. Marsham.** All
the specimens described by these entomologists were most probably
collected by travellers touching only at certain points on the coast.
(*Footnote. Linnean Transactions 6 pages 185 to 206, tab. 19 to 21 1802.
Descriptions of some Singular Coleopterous Insects by Charles Schreibers,
M.D., Deputy Professor of Natural History in the University of Vienna.
Lucanus aeneus (Lamprima Latr.) Scarabaeus proboscideus (Elephastomus
Macleay). Cetonia philipsii (Schizorhina Kirby) Silpha lachrymosa
(Ptomaphila Hope). Clerus fasciculatus. Prionus lepidopterus (Tragocerus
Dejean) Cerambix giraffa (Gnoma) Cer. fichtelii (Enicodes G.R. Gray)
Scarites schroetteri (Hyperion Lap.) all new, and a singular Brasilian
genus, Scarabaeus dytiscoides (near Anamnesis Vigors and supposed to be
the Eucranium arachnoides Dejean Cat. page 150 ed 1837) are all admirably
described and figured here.)
(**Footnote. Linnean Transactions 9 pages 283 to 295, tab. 24 to 25 1808.
Description of Notoclea, a new genus of Coleopterous Insects from New
Holland by Thomas Marsham, Esquire. Tr. L.S. This contains 20 species,
some of which however had been previously described by Olivier under
Paropsis, the appellation now universally applied to this "convex-backed"
genus. The Reverend William Kirby in a note added the more latent
characters.)
As New Holland became colonized and settlements increased Entomology was
not altogether neglected, for we find a resident, John W. Lewin, A.L.S.,
of Paramatta, New South Wales, in 1805, publishing an elegant and curious
quarto volume of plates in which he describes many species of crepuscular
and nocturnal Lepidoptera, in most cases figuring the insects in all
their stages; it is highly to be regretted that this interesting work was
not continued, and it is to be feared that want of encouragement alone
prevented the industrious and acute author from persevering in the design
of his work, which the title he gave it* shows he intended to have made
of a general nature on the subject. The accounts of the habits of
Cryptophasa and Agarista are peculiarly interesting, and it is much to be
wished that some of the many entomologists now in New Holland and the
islands of the Pacific Ocean would publish similar notes (however short)
on the habits, etc., of the insects they may find.
(*Footnote. Prodromus, etc., Natural History of Lepidopterous Insects of
New South Wales, collected, engraved, and faithfully painted after nature
by J.W.L. etc. London 1805 4to.)
Dr. Robert Brown, when on Flinders' voyage, collected many interesting
insects which were described by Kirby in the 12th volume of the Linnean
Transactions.* Several specimens were deposited by this celebrated
botanist in the British Museum. We find Dr. Leach commencing the
description of New Holland insects in his Zoological Miscellany; and
Macleay in his Horae Entomologicae described many curious Lamellicornes.
Since that time the communication with the great South Continent has been
so uninterrupted that collections have been continually coming to Europe,
and scarcely a ship now arrives without some additions being made to this
branch of science.
(*Footnote. Volume 12 1818 pages 454 to 478. A description of several new
species of Insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esquire,
F.R.S. etc., by the Reverend W. Kirby, M.A., F.R.S. etc. 33 species
described, 13 figured on tab. 23. Mr. Kirby, in his century of Insects
published in the same volume, described 17 New Holland species, and in
the same celebrated paper founded four new genera upon Australasian
Insects, Adelium, Rhinotia, Eurhinus and Rhinaria. He would have
described other genera but for his fear of interfering with Germar's
labours on the Curculionidae. N.B. Strongylium chalconotum is from Brazil
and not from Australasia as indicated.)
The French voyages of discovery under Freycinet,* Duperrey, D'Urville,
and Laplace have contributed very much to extend our knowledge of the
Natural History of the Southern islands, as the publication of the
History of the Voyages of the Uranie, Coquille, Astrolabe, and Favorite,
amply testify; we are more especially indebted to Admiral D'Urville, who
seems to unite the seemingly incompatible duties of commander of an
expedition with an enthusiastic love of and search after insects. M.
Guerin-Meneville published the Annulose animals of the Voyage de la
Coquille, in which New Holland genera and species take a prominent place.
Dr. Boisduval described those collected on the expedition of the
Astrolabe, he also published the first Fauna Entomologica of New Holland
and the Pacific; in his two volumes he gives a synoptical description of
all the species he met with in the Parisian collections, indicating also
such as he found in books whether he had seen the specimens or not. More
detailed descriptions are looked for on some future occasion by the
entomologists of this country from the learned and talented author of so
many well-known works.
(*Footnote. Voyage autour du monde etc. sur les corvettes de S.M.
l'Uranie et la Physicienne 1817 a 1820 Paris 1824 Partie Zoologie.
Freycinet's Voyage, but for the lamentable shipwreck of one of his
vessels, would have added much to our acquaintance with the Natural
History of the places visited. Messrs. Quoy and Gaymard, Medecins de
l'expedition, published the Zoological part of their notes. They refer
with regret to the disastrous accident which deprived them of large
collections of Insects made more particularly in the environs of Port
Jackson. They describe and figure but one insect from New Holland
(Curculio lemniscatus from Shark Bay) a spider from Port Jackson (Aranea
notacautha Quoy, Dolophones notacantha Walckenaer Apt. 1 383) in which
the brown callosities at the end of the cylindrical abdomen were taken
for eyes, a position rectified by Walckenaer as above and by Kirby in his
Bridgewater Treatise where he gives a copy of the French figure of this
singular spider--Two Crustacea, one (Ocypode convexus) from Dirk
Hatterick's and the other (Pagurus clibanarius) from Shark Bay, are all
the Annulose animals described or figured as coming from New Holland,
from the pitiable circumstance above alluded to.)
The figures and descriptions of Guerin, though fewer in number, are more
detailed than those of Dr. Boisduval, who was much limited for space.
It would take up too much time to give a tithe of the names of the
entomologists who have described New Holland insects* as nearly every
working student of insects abroad and at home has added to the list.
(*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.)
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 to New
Holland, descriptions of which, from the pen of the Reverend F.W. Hope,
may shortly be looked for.
(*Footnote. The Entomologist, conducted by Edward Newman. London Van
Voorst in Monthly Numbers.)
The north-west coast of New Holland has been but little investigated, and
yet in that quarter the late Allan Cunningham gathered a rich harvest of
rare and unknown species; but it would take too much space to tell what
parts have not been searched for insects, suffice it to say that the Swan
River settlement, Kangaroo and Melville islands, Adelaide, Sydney, and
Hobart Town seem all peculiarly rich in species, and what may we not
expect from New Zealand, from the samples already given of its entomology
by Fabricius and Shuckard, not to mention others who have described
species from that locality.
We yet hope to see a general work on the subject similar to the truly
national work on the Birds and Kangaroos at present publishing by Mr.
Gould. Mr. G.R. Gray commenced such a work in quarto, and the beautiful
number illustrated by the late Charles Curtis, containing species of
Phasmidae, it is to be hoped will not be left single.* I have only room
to add that, owing to many other occupations, I can at present give only
a very imperfect list of the species you have presented to the National
Museum, which were all collected by you on the shores of King George's
Sound. A.W.
(*Footnote. I see in Laporte and Gory's Histoire Naturelle et
Iconographic des Coleopteres, a work on Australian Insects, by the
Reverend Frederick W. Hope, often quoted as Synopsis of the Insects of
New Holland, but this must be privately printed, as I have never seen it
or heard of it elsewhere.
...
COLEOPTERA.
CARENUM, Bon. Carenum perplexum.
I think this may be the Scarites cyaneus Fabricius described from the
Banksian Cabinet in 1775 (Systema Entomologiae page 249 g. 68 sp. 2.) It
differs however from his description in the appendiculated thorax (the
sides of which are rounded) being abruptly cut off behind, and in having
the somewhat dilated margin there, slightly emarginate. The general
surface of the thorax is not so bright in colour as the elytra, it has
more of a purple reflection; a dark greenish hue prevails over the
elytra, the anterior edge of each having, towards the margin, a slight
bend upwards, which forms a kind of tooth, projecting slightly over the
somewhat dilated margin of the elytra, along the margin of these are at
least eight points, at first seemingly impressed, but when more
particularly examined they appear to be raised and to have an impressed
line round each of them. The head is black, the antennae and palpi
piceous, the third joint in the former is longer than the second or
third, the terminal joints are (more especially) furnished with pitchy
hairs. Long. lin. 8.
Habitat King George's Sound. Captain George Grey.
The genus Carenum was founded by Fr. A. Bonelli in the second part of his
Observations Entomologiques, read the 3rd May 1813 and published in the
Turin Transactions for 1813,* upon a specimen contained in the Paris
Museum of Natural History, which he regarded as the Scarites cyaneus of
Fabricius figured by Olivier.
(*Footnote. Memoires de l'Academie Imp. des Sciences etc. page 479.)
Guerin* has shown that the Arnidius marginatus Leach of the letter-press
to the Voyage de l'Astrolabe, page 33, is synonymous with Carenum cyaneum
of Bonelli, as he has seen the two specimens, the former of which is in
Dupont's collection.
(*Footnote. Crust. Arachn. et Ins. of the voyage of the Coquille
avant-propos page 7.)
M. Brulle* observes well that the Carenum cyaneum of Bonelli must be
different from the Scarites cyaneus of Fabricius, as both these authors
speak of its being blue (or deep blackish green) over the whole upper
surface, while in the C. cyaneum the blue is confined to the margin of
the elytra; besides Olivier expressly states that the Scarites cyaneus is
smaller than the Scarites subterraneus, which will not at all suit the
original specimen from which the learned Bonelli derived his generic
character. In the British Museum is the original specimen of Arnidius
marginatus (catalogued by Dr. Leach) presented by J. Huey, Esquire, and
it is very different both in size and in colour from the descriptions of
Fabricius and Olivier, and the figure of the latter,** all derived from
the original specimen formerly contained in the Banksian collection. Dr.
Boisduval's concise description (op. cit. page 2, page 23) answers the
specimen so named by Leach.
(*Footnote. Histoire Naturelle des Ins. par Messieurs Audouin and Brulle
5 page 64.)
(**Footnote. Coleopt. 3 Number 36 l. 2 f. 17.)
If the figure of Carenum cyaneum, given by Audonin and Brulle in their
Work (tome 5 plate 2 f. 6) be correctly drawn, it differs very
considerably from Leach's specimens of Arnidius, which is a broader
insect.
I have not been able to see the original specimen of the Scarites
cyaneus, so that in all probability it has been destroyed; it is much to
be desired that accurate figures and descriptions were made and published
of the original specimens described by Linnaeus and Fabricius, which
exist in the Banksian and Smithian Cabinets in the possession of the
Linnean Society, as well as those to be found in the Hunterian and
British Museums. The genus Eutoma of Newman* seems to me to be synonymous
with Carenum, but different from Arnidius of Leach.
(*Footnote. Entomological Magazine 5 page 170 Eu. tinctilatus.)
CHLAENIUS, Bon.
Chlaenius greyianus, new species.
C. supra laete viridi-smaragdinus, elytris costis tribus, suturaque
elevatis cupreis, laevibus, interstitiis laevibus; margine utraque linea
punctorum impressorum instructa; subtus piceo-niger, antennis pedibusque
piceo-nigris.
I have named this beautiful species after the Governor of South
Australia; in the system it would come close to the European Chlaenius
quadrisulcatus, Illiger. (Dejean and Boisduval Iconogr. et Histoire
Naturelle des Coleopt. d'Europe 2 page 185 plate 94 f. 3) which it seems
singularly to represent.
It is however rather a larger insect, and of a brighter green above than
any specimens of the other species which I have seen, there is less of
the coppery tinge about its upper surface. The thorax is much narrower,
the lateral margins can hardly be called depressed, and they are not at
all longitudinally scooped out there, as they are in the C.
quadrisulcatus. The elytra are very distinctly sinuated towards the
extremity, and the three elevated ribs are smooth and of a coppery bronze
colour, with the intervening spaces smooth (at least not granulated as in
the C. quadrisulcatus) and have two longitudinal lines of impressed
points, one on each side of the smooth interval.
This short description may suffice to distinguish this beautiful species.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey. (British Museum.)
Staphylinus erythrocephalus, Fabricius.
Systema Entomologiae 265 to 266 1775 Syst. Eleuth. 2 593 19.
Oliv. Ent. 3 Number 42 sp. 9 page 12 plate 2 figure 9.
Erichs. Genera et species Staphyl. sp. 8 page 351 1840.
Habitat Australia (King George's Sound) Captain George Grey, Museum
British.
The specimens brought home by Captain Grey seem to me identical with the
above. Fabricius describes the thorax (truncated in front and rounded
behind) as having the anterior margin rufous in the middle, it being
wholly of a deep shining black, and as Olivier (l.c.) remarks, the neck
or narrowed collar (qui joint la tete au corcelet) is rufous yellow as is
the squareish transverse head with a black spot on the crown. The
scutellum and elytra are minutely punctured or chagrined, and hairy
(except a small smooth oblong space on the shoulder of the latter) and
are black with a violet tinge; in one specimen the elytra have scarcely
any of the blue tinge, and the spot on the shoulder is of a ferruginous
hue; the wings are violaceous. Dr. Leach had regarded this as a distinct
subgenus, but as the name he had given it is pre-occupied in Botany, and
has not been published with or without characters, as far as I am aware,
I have not given it.
CRYPTODUS, Macleay.
C. variolosus, Burmeister (Westwood Monograph ined.)
Smaller than Mr. Macleay's species and of a pitchy brown, it is less
depressed; the head is squarer and not so broad, the two tubercles are
more prominent, the mentum is deeply emarginate: antennae nine-jointed;
basal joint dilated, prothorax not so transverse, much more closely
punctured: the elytra are scarcely dilated behind, shorter, and are
covered with exceeding minute punctures in addition to the larger ones.
Inhabits King George's Sound, Captain George Grey. (British Museum.)
Mr. Westwood informed me that Professor Burmeister had sent him a
description of this species under the above-mentioned name; the
characters are the principal of those which will appear in Mr. Westwood's
elaborate memoir. I had written a description of this species and
assigned a name to it, which however I withdraw. There are more than two
species of this curious genus, first published in the Horae
Entomologicae.
BRACHYSTERNUS, Guerin. (s.g. Epichrysus.)
B. ? (E.) Lamprimoides, new species. Illustration 18 Insects 1.
Viridi aureus, thorace corporeque subtus tomentosis.
Yellowish metallic green, legs darker. The head is somewhat square, the
transverse suture being rather indistinct; the margin of the clypeus is
distinctly reflexed. Antennae dark brown, ten-jointed; 1st joint longest,
thickened at the end, with ferruginous hairs behind; 2nd rounded, thin;
3rd, 4th, and 5th, with the separating lines very indistinct, those
before the 3 lamellated joints short, transverse. Maxillary palpi with
the terminal joint dilated, rather blunt at the tip, depressed above, and
hollowed out at its base. Legs rather thick, the outer of the two tarsal
claws of the third pair of legs, cleft at the end, anterior tibiae
externally sub-tridentate. Thorax with the sides somewhat angulated and
narrowly margined, rounded behind, but the sides of the posterior margin
are straight, the surface is minutely punctured and covered with brown
hairs, the sternum of the mesothorax is without a spine, or projecting
angle; elytra in some specimens of a rich, lively, metallic, yellowish
green, in other coppery green with the suture and margin dark green, the
surface chagreened and punctured. Underside of the body and legs dark
green, the former covered with ash-grey pubescence, or rather longish
soft hairs.
This insect seems to be one of those links which connect such genera as
Anoplognathus, Amblyterus and Brachysternus, and it is very difficult to
say to which of these genera it is most allied. Professor Burmeister has
begun to eradicate the Phyllophagous genera of Beetles, and from his deep
knowledge of Entomology, and the particular acquaintance which he has
with the principles of general Zoology, as well as the thorough manner in
which he means to go through all the species, much light may soon be
expected to be thrown on the subject; how true is Darwin's remark, made
in speaking of a somewhat anomalous bird, "this, from its varied
relations, although at present offering only difficulties to the
systematic Naturalist, ultimately may assist in revealing the grand
scheme, common to the present and past ages, on which organized beings
have been created." (Journal and Remarks Voyage of Beagle 3 page 112.)
BIPHYLLOCERA, g.n.
Antennae (seemingly) nine-jointed, the first joint long, much thickened
at the end, and furnished with several stiff hairs, the five last are
lamelliform, the lamellae in the male long, and pinnated on one side;
labium deeply grooved in the middle, notched at the tip; palpi with the
terminal joints longest, sub-cylindrical; head moderate; clypeus
separated by a distinct line, basal part slightly hollowed out, as is the
head between the eyes; thorax short; elytra elongate, somewhat rounded on
the lateral edge, truncated at the end; legs slender; tibiae of first
pair anteriorly sub-tridentate, tibiae of second and third pairs with
many spines, claws of posterior tarsi entire, joints of tarsi, slender,
elongate.
In the system this would come at no great distance from the genus Serica,
the compound lamellated joints are, I believe, the first noticed amongst
Phyllophagous Coleoptera.
Biphyllocera kirbyana, sp. n. Illustration 19 Insects 2 Figure 1 a and
b.)
Piceo-brunnea, subtus piloso-fulvescens, thoracis margine flavescente,
dorso, hirtello; elytris 9 (saltem) lineis longitudinalibus impressis,
interstitiis transverse substriolatis quasi squamulatis.
Shining, more especially on the head and clypeus, the crown of the head
very smooth, the space between the eyes with impressed punctures, the
clypeus slightly notched in front; antennae pale-ferruginous; thorax with
short rust-coloured hairs, and the lateral margin slightly reflexed and
paler than the dorsal part, which is covered with short striolae, giving
a squamulate appearance to it; when narrowly examined, just above the
rather large and bluntish scutellum, there are some distinct scattered
punctures; thorax beneath covered with fulvous hairs.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
There are two more or less injured specimens of this species in the
collection of the British Museum. In the same collection, from the same
locality, are two specimens of what I regarded as the females of the B.
kirbyana; they are larger and of a pale brown; one of these is figured in
the accompanying wood-cut figure 2. In the lamellae of the antennae of
the two specimens there is considerable difference, so that probably
there may be a second species of Biphyllocera. I have given it the name
of B. fabriciana.
Lamprima micardi, Reiche in Guerin's Rev. Zool. 1841, Number 2, page 51.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Porrostoma rufipenne (Fabricius) Laporte Histoire des Anim. Art.
Lycus rufipennis, Fabricius Syst. El. 2 page 114 to 120.
Habitat King George's Sound.
Porrostoma serraticorne (Fabricius) Lap.
Lycus serraticornis, Fabricius Syst. El. 2 3 page 6.
Habitat King George's Sound.
Saprinus cyaneus (Fabricius) Erichson Uebers. der Hister. in Klug's
Jahrb. d. Insectenk. 1 page 178.
Hister. cyaneus Fabricius Systema Entomologiae page 52 7 3. Syst. El. 1
86 13. Oliv. Ent. 1 number 8 plate 3 f. 17.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Stigmodera roei, Hope, Synopsis of Austr. Insects page 2 number 15.
Buprestis dejeaniana, Boisduval Voyage de l'Astrolabe Ent. 2 page 63
plate 6 f. 6.
Stigmodera cancellata, Lap. and Gory (nec Donovan) Histoire Naturelle
etc. des Col. plate 2 f. 6.
Habitat King George's Sound, Capt George Grey.
Donovan's B. cancellata is surely a distinct species, the serrated
margins of the elytra and other characters would separate it. I have not
seen the work of the Reverend F. Hope, referred to by Messrs. Gory and
Laporte, so that I am not aware whether the specific name roei or
dejeaniana had the priority in publication.
Stigmodera iospilota, Hope, var. "Syn. etc." Lap. and Gory, op. c. plate
7 f. 39.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Diphucrania scabiosa, Gory ? Boisduval Voyage de l'Astrolabe.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Ptomaphila lacrymosa (Schreiber) Hope. The Coleopterist's Manual part 3
page 150.
Silpha lacrymosa, Schreibers Linnean Transactions 6 page 194 tab. 20
Figure 5.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Belus suturalis, Boisduval Voyage de l'Astrolabe, Ent. 2 page 304 plate 7
Figure 20.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Catasarcus rufipes (Hope) Schoenh. Gen. and Spec. Curc. 5 gen. 109 sp. 2
page 814.
Cneorhinus stigmatipennis, Boisduval Voyage de l'Astrolabe 2 page 349.
Habitat King George's Sound.
Helaeus echidna, new species. Illustration 20 Insects 3.
H. elytris triseriatim spinosis.
The dilated sides of thorax meeting in front, and projecting beyond head,
a short spine in the middle near the hind margin. Elytra with two rows of
spines close to the suture, and another close to the edge, where the
dilated part commences: the central rows of spines are not continued to
the tip, the spines being placed irregularly; they are also much larger
than those of the side row. General surface of thorax and elytra very
smooth, shining, the dilated parts of thorax and elytra with the surface
somewhat undulated.
Inhabits King George's Sound, Captain Grey.
EMCEPHALUS, Kirby Zool. Journal 3 page 524.
Emcephalus (Cilibe) tricostellus, new species.
Much larger than the E. gibbosus, of a dirty brown, glossed, and wide
margin of elytra flat, the extreme edge somewhat turned up, the sides of
the elytra at base are somewhat straight, but the edge soon gradually
gets rounded off towards tip. Towards the suture the elytron is raised so
as to form a very prominent keel down the back of elytra; the general
surface of the elytra is somewhat pustulose, and there are three slightly
elevated, longitudinal lines, nearly meeting (but indistinctly) behind on
the convex part of each elytron. The middle of thorax is more shining
than the other parts, and seems to have two impressions on the back on
each side of a longitudinal, elevated dorsal line.
King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
This species may belong to the genus "Cilibe Kirby," shortly alluded to
by Dr. Boisduval in the Entomological part of the Voyage of the
Astrolabe.
Hesthesis cingulatus (Kirby) Newman. Annals of Natural History 5 page 17.
Molorchas cingulatus, Kirby, Linnean Transactions 12 page 472.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Phoracantha semipunctata (Fabricius) Newman, Annals of Natural History 5
page 19.
Stenocorus semipunctatus, Fabricius Systema Entomologiae 180 8 Syst. El.
2 306 8. Donovan Epitome etc. figure.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Hebecerus marginicollis, Dejean.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Bardistus cibarius, Newman, Entomologist March 1841 Number 5 page 80.
Illustration 21 Insects 4.
Of a yellowish bay colour, the head, thorax, and basal part of the three
first joints of the antennae darker; the elytra soft, margined, with
three parallel raised lines, not reaching the tip, the outer is on the
side and not so distinct as the other two; there is also a short one
running from the base of the elytron near the scutellum, and soon forming
a margin to the suture. The antennae are slightly hairy outside. (In the
accompanying figure they are represented much too short.) There are a few
short hairs at the rounded tip of the elytra.
Habitat King George's Sound, where it seems to be very abundant, forming
a favourite article of food with the natives who call it Barde; it is
eaten in its imago as well as its larva and pupa states.
"It is found in the Xanthorrhoea. The grubs are white, have a fragrant
aromatic flavour, and form a favourite article of food amongst the
natives. They are eaten either raw or roasted, and frequently form a sort
of dessert after native repasts. The presence of these grubs in a
grass-tree is thus ascertained. If the top of one of these trees is
observed to be dead, the natives give it a few sharp kicks with their
feet, when, if it contains any Barde, it begins to give way; if this
takes place, they push it over, and breaking the tree in pieces with
their hammers, extract the Barde." Captain Grey's manuscript.
Paropsis, Oliv.
There are several beautiful species of this genus found at King George's
Sound, where they seem to take the place of the Tortoise beetles
(Cassididae). When alive, they have, like many of the Cassidae, the most
brilliant lustre, their resplendent colours disappearing soon after
death.
Coccinella tongataboae, Boisduval Voyage de l'Astrolabe Ent. it. page 595
plate 8 figure 24.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
...
ORTHOPTERA.
Blatta subverrucosa, new species.
Apterous, oval; thorax in front semicircular, shrouding the head;
posterior angle sharp, rounded behind, the frontal edge bent slightly
back, and yellowish; the upper surface brown, rather obscure, the surface
irregularly raised, below deep shining pitchy brown. Abdomen yellowish
brown, above sprinkled with dark brown, the edges of each segment with
several small wart-like prominences; two first segments being also
shagreened at the sides, beneath pitchy brown, segments at the base black
with green reflections; the femora are pitchy brown; the tibiAe pale
yellowish with black spines; the tarsi of a deeper yellow; head dark
brown, the trophi and a narrow line on the cheeks yellowish; antennae
somewhat ferruginous.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
A large apterous species.
Mantis latistylus, Serville, var. Orthopt. Suites de Buffon page 179.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Mantis rubrocoxata, Serville ? Orthopt. page 203.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Acheta ? marginipennis, new species.
Thorax black with a yellow line above; head as wide as the thorax, with a
blunted projection in front between the antennae, which are very long and
situated in a groove in front of the eyes, and have their basal joint
very large. No ocelli visible. Thorax wider than long, somewhat narrower
in front than behind. Hemelytra very transparent, longer than the
abdomen, lying flat upon one another, the outer margin bent down; the
horizontal portion has many irregular nerves; there are two longitudinal
nerves at the angle formed by the bent down outer margin, which extend
from base almost to the tip, the spaces between these nerves being of a
yellowish colour, the general colour greyish, there are several oblique
parallel veins on the bent down margin; wings very short; posterior legs
very long; femora much thickened, brown, at the base very pale; anal
appendages very long and hairy. Somewhat allied to the Acheta arachnoides
of Westwood, figured in the Naturalist's Library, Introduction to
Entomology, volume 1 plate 6.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Tympanophora pellucida, new species. Illustration 22 Insects 5.
Antennae very long, arising from between the eyes, labrum heart-shaped,
eyes very large, prominent; ocelli 3, the first the largest, situated
between the antennae, the two others being placed on the sides of a
slight groove behind them. Prothorax widest behind, in front not so wide
as the head; abdomen small, two of the segments on the back with
projecting knobs; anal appendages in the male short cylindrical, slightly
hooked inwardly, furnished at the end with two teeth, the surface is
rough with short bristly hairs. The elytra are much longer than the wing,
which again are at least twice the length of the abdomen; the first and
second pair of legs are rather stout, the tibiae having two rows of
strong spines on the underside; the hind legs are long and slender, the
under surface of the tibiae being but slightly denticulated. The head is
green, the front inclining to yellow, the crown is reddish brown, eyes
green, ocelli yellow, two basal joints of antennae green, the remainder
rust coloured; prothorax green, brown behind, with a broadish line of
same colour down the middle; body rusty green, each segment with a dusky
ring; elytra pale green with few longitudinal nerves, but many cross
ones; wings of a very pale green; anterior legs of a pale brown, femora
of second and third pair green; the tibiae pale brown, the tarsi and
joints darker.
Habitat King George's Sound.
This genus is not far removed from AEcanthus Serville; when the wings are
closed it somewhat resembles a species of the African genus Pneumora;
(the figure should be reversed.)
Saga denticulata, new species.
Head yellowish green with a brownish tint; the cheeks below the eyes and
an irregular mark above the clypeus brownish in some specimens; labrum
yellow, in some at the base brown; mandibles pale at base, succeeded by a
reddish brown hue, the cutting edges being black and shining; antennae
lower half green, terminal portion brownish green; prothorax without
transverse grooves, the surface with minute wart-like prominences; elytra
(in male) pale green with darker reticulations, the inner edge with a
rosy hue; abdomen of a dark dull green above, beneath pale; legs green,
changing into yellowish and brownish; the two rows of spines on the
underside of the femora and tibiae short and blackish; anal appendages in
the male knife-shaped, with a broad tooth at base. The ovipositor of
female has the edges quite smooth beneath.
This species is but half the size of the Saga serrata.
Inhabits King George's Sound.
This species belongs to Serville's second division, or may possibly form
a third, as in the males there exist rudiments of wings. Each of the
elytra has a clear space like a tympanum; the upper part of the prothorax
is smooth, the sides and posterior part are very slightly bent back, the
last segment of abdomen notched at the end.
Tropinotus cinnamomeus, Serville Orthopt. page 620.
Gryllus australasiae, Leach Zool. Misc. 1 page 56 tab. 24 ?
Habitat King George's Sound.
Calliptamus carbonarius, Serville Orthopt. page 691.
Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey.
Calliptamus brunneus, new species.
Head smooth, of a light brown; antennae somewhat red, at the tip
brownish; ocelli yellow; the four facial keels distinct; thorax light
brown behind with foveated impressions, amidst which arise a few longish
prominences, transverse grooves feeble, dorsal keel very distinct. Elytra
longer than the body, slightly opaque, light brown, with a few indistinct
spots; wings scarcely as long as the elytra, with a greenish hue, except
at the tip which is brownish; abdomen brown, shining, palest beneath,
segments keeled above, posterior tibiae of a bright red, sides at the
base yellowish, spines black, posterior femora with two brown bands on
the upper edge about the middle.
Inhabits King George's Sound.
...
HYMENOPTERA.
ONCORHINUS, Shuckard.
[Family Thynnidae Shuckard.]
My reasons for establishing the family Thynnidae I shall expose in my
monograph of that family, which would have been published ere this but
for the difficulty of procuring specimens for dissection; and as I must
for a similar reason defer the positive character until I publish the
synopsis of the whole, I will give those negative ones which are
comprised in the differences which distinguish it from Scotaena of Klug,
and from which it may be separated by its much swollen and protuberant
clypeus, being considerably less emarginate. Genae scarcely conspicuous.
Antennae longer and more porrect; second submarginal cell as long as the
third; abdomen broader at the base, its ventral surface concave;
hypopygium scarcely carinated laterally, and pygidium prominent and
deeply emarginate, its lateral edges produced into acute teeth. External
differences apparently so small, and which might elsewhere be deemed
inadequate to the establishment of genera, become important in this
remarkable family, from their being confirmed by the structure of the
trophi, and the strong distinctions exhibited in their females in every
instance that has yet presented itself to me, wherever I have had the
certainty of specific identity in these heterogynous insects, from the
direct observation of my friends in Australia.
Oncorhinus xanthospilos, Shuckard.
Black--clypeus, mandibles, lower portion of face in front of eyes, a
narrow streak above and behind them--anterior margin of collar, tegulae,
tubercles and adjacent part of epimerae--a round spot on each side of
each segment of the abdomen, except the terminal one--apex of the femora,
the tibiae and tarsi, all yellow; the posterior tibiae being only brown
within, and the extreme apex of the joints of their tarsi also brown.
Habitat King George's Sound. Length 11 lines, expansion of the wing 18
lines.
This is a unique species in the genus as far as I have yet had the
opportunity of ascertaining.
W.E.S.
NEUROPTERA.
Bittacus australis, Klug. Monogr. Panorp. Berlin Transactions sp. no. 11.
Habitat King George's Sound.
HEMIPTERA.
CHOEROCYDNUS, n.g.
Head broad, in front somewhat truncated; ocelli wanting; antennae
five-jointed, second joint longest, third, fourth and fifth, somewhat
thickened and nearly equal; beak reaching to base of last pair of legs,
if not beyond; third joint the longest; thorax in front notched for
reception of head, not so wide as the body; scutellum long and pointed,
the line separating it from hemelytra very indistinct; hemelytra without
a membrane at the end; tibiae very spiny; abdomen broadest behind; tarsi
of fore-legs very feeble, two-jointed, second joint shorter than the
first, and ending in two claws.
Choerocydnus foveolatus, new species. Illustration 23 Insects 6.
Dark pitchy brown; head, thorax, and body margined with hairs; head above
minutely punctured, an elongated space in the middle, smooth; thorax
above minutely punctured with some larger impressed dots, and irregularly
shaped smooth spaces, the coriaceous part pitted; antennae and tarsi
light ferruginous.
Inhabits King George's Sound.
LEPIDOPTERA.
Papilio liris, Godart. Encycl. Meth. 9 Papilio page 72 no. 132. Boisduval
Spec. gener. des Lepidopt. 1 page 269 number 92. De Haan. Bijdr. etc.
Verh. Nat. geschied. etc. Zool. Insecta tab. 4 f. 3 page 40.
It may perhaps be not altogether foreign to the purpose of this list to
say that in the collection of the British Museum there are two specimens
of this species from the North-west coast of New Holland, where they were
collected by the late Mr. Allan Cunningham. The whole of his collection
was bought by Mr. Children, and many of the rare Lepidoptera in it were
named by Mr. G.R. Gray. Godart's description of the body agrees exactly
with the male in the national collection, les cotes et le bout de
l'abdomen d'un rouge-carmin tendre. Boisduval, in the standard work above
alluded to, says of this species, dessous et extremite de l'abdomen d'un
rouge carmin. FEMELLE SEMBLABLE AU MALE, sur quatre individus que nous
possedons, AUCUN NE VARIE. In one of the Museum specimens (a female) the
abdomen is nearly entirely black, and the brown in both specimens is of
the same rich deep shade that is found in the Papilio polydorus. The
abdomen may possibly be that of some other species, as the specimen is
not in very good condition. I regard the specimens from the north-west
coast of New Holland as a slight local variety. Godart's specimens came
from the East Indies and Boisduval's from Timor. I find that Monsieur W.
de Haan, in the splendid work published at Leyden on the Natural History
of the Dutch colonies in the East and West Indies, etc. has described and
figured "the female" of this species with the following note; his
specimens were from Timor-Kupang. On the lower side of both wings there
is a carmine anal spot placed at the end of the yellow band and gradually
running into it, this spot is larger and more deeply coloured in the male
than in the female; in the former it shows itself on the upper side,
along the inner edge, as a small streak which is not visible in the
latter (l.c. page 40). I may add that his figure of the abdomen is red,
and the specimens are larger than those in the Museum (Bijdragen tot de
Kennis der Papilionidea, in the Verhandel. over de Natuurl. Geschied etc.
Zool. No 3 tab. 4 f. 3 1840.)
Pieris aganippe (Donovan) Boisduval var. Lepidopt. 1 page 457.
Papilio aganippe Donovan Ins. of New Holland.
Habitat King George's Sound.
Hipparchia merope (Fabricius).
Habitat King George's Sound.
Hesperia ? Sophia. Illustration 24 Insects 7.
Above, brownish black; upper wings varied with bluish grey scales, many
near the outer margin arranged into a somewhat regular series; a
transverse, slightly bent, white band runs from near the outer edge close
to the tip, to near the middle of the wing; wings fringed with greyish
and black; under wings brownish black, with fulvescent orange spots and a
band, one small spot somewhat transverse, near the middle, beneath this a
broadish band extends from the anal margin nearly to the outer side of
wing, which is divided by a brown line, leaving an irregular squareish
spot, attenuated towards the outer margin; on the margin are three
differently-shaped dots beginning from the internal margin, and in one of
the specimens are four slight lunules, growing fainter as they approach
the outer margin. Beneath, upper wings with two transverse fulvescent
orange bands, one near the centre, the other at the tip, broadest
externally, with three black spots, the outer largest running into it
near the margin, interiorly it is much contracted ending in spots; the
base of the wings is yellowish grey, under wings yellowish grey at base,
otherwise very similarly marked, the outer part of the orange band having
two longitudinal whitish lines on it; antennae at base fringed with
white; club brown. Body above silky yellowish brown; borders of segments
lighter; beneath, greyish white.
Inhabits King George's Sound. Capt George Grey.
This seems to belong to a new genus not far removed from Castnia or
Coronis.
Hecatesia thyridion, Feisthamel. Illustration 25 Insects 8.
1. Hecatesia thyridion female.
1a. do. male upper side.
1b. under.
1c. fenestra in wing of male.
1d. section of fenestre.
2. Hecatesia fenestrata male.
Lepidopt. Voyage Favorite Supplement plate 5 f. 1 male.
Female alis longioribus, maculis albis triseriatis alarum anticarum
majoribus, nulla macula diaphana fenestrata ad costam.
The genus Hecatesia was founded by Boisduval in 1829,* upon a singular
Zygenidous insect sent to Latreille by Mr. Alexander Macleay, from New
Holland, in some part of which it does not seem to be uncommon.
(*Footnote. Essai sur une Monographie des Zygenides page 11.)
The species H. fenestrata Boisduval (l.c. page 11 plate 1 f. 2) was
brought by Mr. Hunter, Surgeon of Captain King's expedition, and by him
presented to the British Museum. Another species has been described by
the Baron Feisthamel in the voyage of the Favorite (page 19 plate 5 f. 1)
under the name of H. thyridion.* Of this species there are specimens in
the collection presented to the British Museum, and I take the present
opportunity of describing the female of this species, only remarking that
it wants the fenestrated clear space in the upper wing.**
(*Footnote. Lepidopteres nouveau, etc. Supplement a la Zoologie du voyage
autour du monde de la Favorite sous le commandement de M. Laplace
capitaine de Fregate.)
(**Footnote. At first, from the body being so much more slender than in
the fenestrated specimens, I thought it might be the male but, on showing
the specimen to Mr. Edward Doubleday, he pronounced it a female.
The H. thyridion is distinguished from the H. fenestrata by its larger
size, and a third yellowish white interrupted band close to the base of
the first pair of wings; the fenestrated spot is narrower, more lunated,
and is much smaller in proportion than in the corresponding part in Dr.
Boisduval's species. The body beneath is girded with four yellowish white
and black bands, the black bands are continuous on the sides, while the
white pass on the sides into the deep ochry-yellow of the upper side; the
abdomen has a single row of black spots (at least seven) down the middle,
one at the base of each segment, the two nearest the thorax have a
whitish spot behind them.
The female of this species brought by Captain Grey has the upper wings
more developed; the three interrupted whitish bands are composed, at
least the two outer, of three spots, larger than in the female; the
little bluish white spots on the deep brown part of the under side of the
lower wing are also nearly obsolete; the sides of the body are not
fringed as in the male; and the apical tuft is very small indeed.
The most marked character however is the want of the fenestrated
diaphanous spot in the upper wing, which being a most prominent
characteristic in the examples of this species already recorded, makes it
highly probable that they have all been females, and that this is the
first time that the male has been alluded to.
The beautifully striated and waved surface of the glassy spot, taken in
connection with the fact of the noise made by the insects possessing it,
would seem to indicate that the fenestrated spot must act as a tympanum.
Cossodes lyonetii, new species. Illustration 26 Insects 9.
Wings black, with violet, purple, and green reflections; upper with a
longitudinal line, broken by the black of the wing near the base, the
other part extending to the tip of the wing, sinuated anteriorly, and
elbowed posteriorly; near the posterior margin are two irregular white
spots, the upper sub-triangular, the under squareish; on the apical
margin are seven whiteish spots, the first very minute, the second
largest, the others gradually diminishing towards the long white line
where they terminate. The fringe is black, slightly greyish on the edge;
the underside of the wing is greyish at the base, and on the inner edge,
then violet, the apical portion being of a silky yellowish brown; the
lower wings are purplish violet, the outer margin at the base is whitish,
the fringe is black at the base, at the end white--the white forming a
broader line than the black; beneath it is violet black, and black with a
greenish tinge. The thorax and body in the specimen described is rubbed;
the latter seems to be blackish green, banded with white. I have seen a
species closely resembling the above in Dr. Boisduval's immense
collection.
Habitat King George's Sound. Captain George Grey.*
(*Footnote. The Saturnia laplacei, described and figured by the Baron
Feisthamel in his description of the Lepidoptera collected on the voyage
of the Favorite is synonymous with the Chelepteryx collesi, described by
Mr. G.R. Gray in the First Volume of the Transactions of the
Entomological Society of London page 122.)
Odonestis elizabetha, new species.
Antennae, with the pectinations rusty brown, lighter at the tips, the
stem densely covered with white scales, palpi and head in front deep
ferruginous. Thorax thickly clothed with fawn-coloured hairs; body above,
shining ochrey inclined to orange; short tuft at the end of the body;
underside lateritious; upper surface of first pair of wings fawn, with a
reddish hue, densely covered with hair-like scales, with shorter and
somewhat square scales beneath, the scales over the nervures, being
reddish; an indistinct line of seven obscure spots still more
indistinctly connected by a zigzag reddish line, runs across the wing
nearly parallel to its apical margin, and nearer the tip of the wing than
the middle. (In one of the two specimens this band of spots is obsolete,
or nearly so, as are the reddish coloured nervures.) Second pair of wings
of a blush red, the fringe fawn coloured; underside of both wings, more
of a brick colour than the upper surface of second pair; the fringes fawn
coloured; the second pair with a very indistinct band, nearly parallel to
the posterior margin; the nerves on the first pair of wings are lighter
than the general ground, on the second pair darker; space between the
first pair of legs densely clothed with long ferruginous hair; two hind
pair of legs with two strong spurs, one rather shorter than the other;
the tibiae have each a tuft of yellowish white hairs, the legs themselves
are covered with short ferruginous scales or hair, those on the soles of
the tarsus being somewhat ochrey in colour.
Trichetra isabella. Illustration 27 Insects 10.
Alis anticis albis, fasciis tribus apiceque nigris, maculis subocellatis
duobus inter fasciam secundam tertiamque, maculis octo apicalibus;
posticis nigris, basi anguste, apiceque marginali ochraceis. (10 figures
1 and 3)
Antennae destroyed. Triangular tuft between the eyes, reddish ochre, the
sides brown; hairs on thorax white, with a yellowish tinge. The upper
wings have their general surface white, the margin at the base being
ochrey-orange; there are two black parallel bands suffused towards the
outer margin, and in this way connected; a third somewhat diagonal band
is in this manner also connected with the second; near the margin there
is also a connection between the second and third bands by means of a
brownish band interspersed with white scales, and in this are two
subocellated spots, white, with an ochrey-orange roundish pupil; the
second just in front of the third band white in front, and ochrey-orange
behind; behind the third black band there comes a narrow band of white
scales, with an ochrey-orange spot at the end near the outer margin. The
tip of the wing is (broadly) velvety brown, with eight marginal whitish
spots; the fringe is mixed with black and ochrey; the ochrey tingeing the
posterior margin of some of the outer spots.
The under wings are velvety brown; the base being obscurely ochrey; the
yellowish colour running up into brown; the fringe behind is ochrey.
The under wings are ochrey at the base; the outer margin of the first
pair being dark brown; the brown of the second pair is scolloped on the
margin as is that of the first. The body above, on the sides and on the
margin beneath, is covered with velvety black hair; beneath there is a
somewhat indistinct longitudinal brownish band down the middle.
The hairs on the end of the body are longish, and not in a dense close
effused tuft as in the female; the legs are hairy, the brushes being
black and yellowish white.
Female: Alis anticis albis fasciis tribus brunneo-nigris apice
brunneo-nigris.
Maculis 8 (saltem) marginalibus antice albis, postice ochraceis.
Alis posticis, basi ochraceis, fascia, apiceque late brunneo-nigris,
margine postico subaurantiaco. Illustration 28 Insects 11.
Since the figure of this was drawn from one of the two rather injured
specimens presented by Captain Grey, I have seen another specimen in
finer condition, from which I shall take the more particular description
of the bands on the upper wing.
The head and thorax are covered with long and close hairs; the tuft
between the eyes being of a brownish ochrey colour; the sides blackish.
The hairs on the fore-part of the thorax are ochrey-brownish, gradually
passing into white on its general surface, which however has more or less
of a yellowish tinge.
The upper wings are white and covered with longish loose scales. Near the
base is a narrowish transverse dark brown band, with another considerably
before the middle of the wing running parallel to it; behind the middle
there is a third band, the inner extremity being at the same distance
from the second band as the second is from the first; but it gradually
slopes away towards the outer margin, and is thus nearly parallel to the
posterior margin, which has also a brown band, scolloped behind, and with
at least eight spots on the margin, which is of a brownish yellow, as in
the outer margin.
The under-wings, from the base to the middle, and (narrowly) on the outer
margin and behind, are brownish ochrey; the other half of the wing is
blackish brown, scolloped behind; and having an indistinct ochrey band
passing transverse through it, which ochrey band has some darker-coloured
scales mixed with it.
The undersides of both wings differ but little from the upper sides; the
upper pair more especially however have on the basal and submarginal
parts longish ochrey coloured hairs instead of white scales.
The body above is, at the base, ochrey; the sides, and two or three other
segments brownish black, darkest just in front of the large thick-set
tuft of brownish orange hairs at the extremity; beneath, down the middle,
is a band of brownish orange, the segments to the sides of this being
black at the base and orange at the tip; the legs are varied with black
and ochrey white.
This seems congeneric with the Arcturus sparshalli of Mr. Curtis,
described in the 7th volume of the British Entomology, folio 336, as a
British insect; but there seems doubt of the correctness of this. The
name, having been pre-occupied in Natural History, has been changed by
Mr. Westwood to Trichetra, in page 92 of the Generic Synopsis, appended
to his Introduction to the modern Classification of Insects.
The Bombyx tristis is figured (figure 2) on the same block with the T.
Nephthis.
Agagles amicus, new species.
A new species, at first sight resembling Leptosoma annulatum, Boisduval
(Voyage de l'Astrolabe 1 page 197 plate 5 figure 9) but differs; the
thorax having four longitudinal, narrow, light-coloured lines, the band
across the upper wings is more continuous, and the circular spot on
lower, larger. It is about the same size, and has the body ringed with
black and yellow; the legs are brown; the femora on underside fringed
with whitish hairs, simply pectinated; many of the pectinations of the
antennae end in a bristle-like hair; palpi somewhat prominent; last joint
pointed.
...
The illustrative figures were drawn by Mr. B. Waterhouse Hawkins, and
engraved on wood by Mr. Robert Hart, of Gloucester Street, Queen's
Square.
THE END.