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faunal region separately, dividing them into numerous independent groups, 

 using the fixed hairs of the four anterior trochanters for his primary group- 

 charaeter. Dr. Horn records 68 speciest of the genus Cicindela from the Aus- 

 tralian faunal region as a whole; these he divides into 27 groups, of which 12 

 groups containing 25 species are represented in Australia. Dr. Horn's grouping 

 of the Australian species agi-ees substantially with the system of groups adopted 

 by me in my Revision of the Cicindelidue of Australia in 1906, but he does not 

 recognise my Cicindela-spuriae and-uerae, and he arranges the species in a dif- 

 ferent order. He also uses more groups than T would. The following are his 

 changes from my system: — C. doddi is united with the C. oblongicollis-groiip; 

 C. discreta, ('. semicincta, C. blackburni, C. browni, ('. frenchi and (.'. darwiiii 

 constitute separate monotypic groups. Dr. Horn's groups are more constricted 

 than mine, but I think he is right in segregating C. frenchi and C. daruini. 



(2). Mr. A. M. Lea (Trans. Roy. Soc. South Aust., 1917, pp. 121-125) 

 published some notes on Australian Cicindelidae, when he described 2 new 

 species, viz., Distypsidera pictii)ennis (allied to D. i/riiti Pasc. from Stewart 

 River, north of Cooktown) and Cicindela antiqua (allied to C. albicans Chaud., 

 from Derby, N.W. Australia). He also suggests that C. albicans is a variety 

 of C. ypsilon Dej., and that C. plebeia SI., sliould be considered distinct from 

 both C. mastersi Cart, and its subspecies C. catoptriola Horn. 



(3). Prof. Mjoberg (Arkiv for Zoologi, Band 10, 1916) gives a list of 

 the species of Cicindelidae collected by him in Australia from 1910 to 1913, 

 describing 2 species as new, viz., Megacephala kimberleyensis (Fitzroy River, 

 N.W. Australia) and Distypsidera sericea (closely allied to D. parva Mad., from 

 Malanda, North Queensland). 



(4). Dr. Walther Horn (Arkiv for Zoologi, Band 13. 1920) reviewed 

 Mjoberg's notes on Australian Cicindelid<ie, making critical remarks on the 

 species, and pointing out some errors of identification made by Mjoberg, also 

 describing as new Megacephala sloanei (allied to M. intermedia SI., from 

 Australia) . 



+Since Dr. Horn's work in 1915 the foUowing species have been described |from Aus- 

 tralia: — C. giles! SI., C. aeneodorsis SI., C. antiqua Lea, and C. clarki SI. 



