THE INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN 



QUEENSLAND. 



By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. 



In the following pages I give descriptions of some of the 

 novelties contained in a collection which I recently received 

 fi'om Cairns and its neighbourhood. The collection was made 

 during last year by Mr. W. W. Froggatt, the Naturalist of the 

 New Guinea Expedition of the previous year ; and it contains a 

 large number of species of all Orders of Insects hitherto unnoticed 

 and unnamed. It is my intention to name and describe from time 

 to time such of these novelties as I can find time to work up, and 

 in doing so I shall take the groups and families in the order I find 

 most convenient. On the present occasion I confine nayself to 

 some of the Geodephaga, Lainellicornes, and Malacodei'ines. 



All the species named are from the Cairns district, and the 

 special localities assigned to some of the insects, such as Barron 

 River, Mossman River, Mulgrave River, and Russell River, are 

 all more or less in the vicinity of Cairns. 



GEODEPHAGA. 

 CICINDELID^. 



1. CiCINDELA FrOGGATTI. 



Of an opaque bronzy hue, with golden green reflections, Head 

 densely acuducted. Eyes prominent and distant. Antennre with 

 the first four joints golden-green, the remainder dull; the labrum 

 of a pale yellow colour, rounded in front, with about 10 setigerous 

 punctures ; the tips of the mandibles and tei-minal joints of the 

 palpi green. The thorax is scarcely longer than wide, minutely 

 and densely granulose-punctate, with two deep transverse depres- 

 sions, one near the apex, the other near the base. The elytra are 



