MJÖBERG, CICINDELID^, GYRINID^, LUCANID^E, PAUSSID^. 9 



Fam. Gyrinidae. 

 From the Australian continent 19 species of this family 



have hitherto been recorded. 

 four genera and species: 



Dineustes M'Leay. 



1. D. australis F. 



2. D. caliginosus Reg. 



3. D. inflatus Blackb. 



4. D. neoguinensis Reg. 



Aulonogyrus Reg. 

 1. A. strigosus F. 



Gyrinus Geoffr. 



1. G. convexiusculus M'Leay. 



2. G. Simoni Reg. 



They belong to the following 



Macrogyrus Reg. 



1. M. angustatus Reg. 



2. M. australis Brullé. 



3. M. elongatus Reg. 



4. M. Gouldi HoPE. 



5. 31. Howiiti Clark. 



6. it/, iridis Hope. 



7. M. ohlongus Boisd. 



8. M. paradoxus Rég. 



9. M. Eeichei Aubé. 



10. 31. Simoni Rég. 



11. 31. striolatus Guér. 



12. 31. venator Boid. 



My own material contains about 300 specimens, repre- 

 senting three different genera and seven species, one of which 

 seems to represent a new form. 



1. Dineustes australis F. — I have taken about fifty 

 specimens of this widely distributed species, partly in the 

 interiör of the Kimberley District at Noonkanbah (Nov. 1910), 

 partly in Queensland at Atherton, Cedar Creek, Malanda, 

 Bellenden Ker (1913). 



The species bas a very wide range extending all över 

 the Malayan Archipelago, Australia, New Zeeland and New 

 Caledonia. 



2. Macrogyrus Howitti Clark, — To this species I ref er 

 a large male specimen (12 mm.) caught in a little pool in the 

 interiör of a dense rain-forest at Mapleton on the Blackal 

 Range (Sept. 1911). 



The body is more uniformly dark with bronzy colour, 

 the head bluish-green. Of the striae only the one close to 

 the börder, and another one a little further in on the disc, 

 continuing only a little behind the middle and composed of 



