Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0015
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To Madeira
Septr. 1768
tho nearly related to Oniscus, from which Circumstance the name of Onidium was given to the new genus & to them was added an animal taken the 28th of August & mentiond in the second Page by the name of Oniscus Macropthalmos.
in one circumstance these insects differ from any hitherto describd, & in that they all three agree, viz the having two Eyes joind together under one common membrane, without the Least distinction or division between them, which circumstance alone seems a sufficient reason for constituting a new genus.
The wind is now fair & we went very pleasantly on towards our destind port, tho rather too fast for any natural Enquiries, for my own part I could well dispence with a much slower pace, but I fancy few in the ship, Dr Solander excepted are of the same opinion tho I beleive Every body envyed our easy contented countenances during the last