BY WALTER W. FROOGATT. /7 



Beetle is IG lines in length, stout and rather flattened on the 

 hack, of a uniform hlack colour, with the broad head and thorax 

 finely rugose, the elytra being deeply ridged with regular punctured 

 stria3. The curious form of the tips of the tibise which terminate 

 in a long slender spine projecting beyond the tarsi enables it 

 if touched to cling very tightly to anything when laid upon its 

 back . 



ACANTHOLOPHUS MARSH AMI, Kirby. 



This is the common Amycterid about the neighbourhood of 

 Sydney. Most of the members of this large genus live upon the 

 grass, but this one climbs up the leaves of the grass-tree, and 

 clinging round them gnaws pieces out. 



Beetle slightly under an inch in length; of a sooty-brown 

 colour; the head stout, an angular spine on either side between 

 the antennpe, a stout double pointed knob in front of each eye, 

 and the antenme and mouth parts hairy; thorax i-ather oval, 

 tlattened on the summit but very rugose, with three stout conical 

 spines along the outer margins, and two irregular lines of shorter 

 ones divided by the stout median suture; legs stout, with tibiai 

 and tarsi hairy; elytra broad, flattened on the summit, the sides 

 transversely corrugated, the upper margins ornamented with an 

 irregular line of large conical spines and numerous smaller ones 

 covering the whole of the back; abdominal plates beneath covered 

 with fine silvery scales or hairs. 



Tranes sp. 



Beetle 6 lines in length, all black; head small; snout long and 

 stout; antennae thick at the tip; thorax rounded in front, the 

 sides flattened on the summit and thickly covered with fine 

 circular punctures; legs short and strong; dark ferruginous, with 

 the tarsi lighter coloured; elytra much broader than thorax, which 

 is arched slightly in front, flattened on the back, and thickly 

 ribbed with parallel deeply punctuate striae. 



This beetle is not very common; it occurs towards the base of 

 the flower stalk and the young leaves. My specimens were 

 obtained from trees at the Hawkesbury. 



