120 ON THE LIFE-HISTORIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



long slender legs out, with the antennae pointing out straight in 

 front, looking very like a large " daddy-long-legs " (Tipula). 



The beetle is 6 lines long, pale brown, slender, with the 

 posterior portion of the tibiae black and swollen out into a club; the 

 antennae long and slender, the first joint swollen, black in front, but 

 brown behind, while the apical portion of all the following joints 

 is black, becoming lighter towards the extremity, a very long 

 truncate spine standing out from the apex of the 3rd joint ; the 

 thorax marked with a double black line in the centre, with a 

 similar line on either side, all coming into a transverse black band 

 behind the head ; elytra deeply punctured, and marked on the 

 sides and centre with wavy curved reddish-brown lines forming a 

 distinct pattern. Mr. A. Lea, late of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, informs me that he on one occasion found a large number 

 of these beetles, which had evidently bred out from a single tree. 



Ceratognathus Froggatti, Blackburn, P.L.S.N.S.W. (2), Vol. ix. 

 p. 94, 1894. 



Larva white, shining, semi-transparent ; abdomen more slender 

 than the thorax ; head round, slightly elongate, pale brownish- 

 yellow, eye spots black, mandibles stout, 3-toothed, black ; antennse 

 four-jointed ; legs long, slender, closely covered with rather long 

 ferruginous hairs, tarsal claws small and very pointed; dorsal side 

 of both thoracic and abdominal segments rounded, covered with 

 fine ferruginous spines, more plentiful on the thoracic segments, 

 interspersed with fine hairs. 



The larva lives in the bark of Eucalyptus robusta, the trunk of 

 which when the trees are large is covered with a thick felty 

 fibrous outer bark, which shelters numbers of small insects and 

 their larvae. It excavates oval chambers about half an inch below 

 the outer surface, where it lies lightly curled round. At Botany 

 I found the beetles and pupae in these cavities early in November. 



The beetle is 5 lines long, black, with the outer edges of the 

 thorax ferruginous, the whole insect closely and finely punctured ; 

 the dorsal side of head, thorax and elytra covered with scattered 



