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produces another equally interesting set of beetles, especially in the 

 lUawarra. Here I have found, among many other species, the large 

 and handsome Carabid, Homalosoma cyajieum, Cast., and the smaller but 

 equally interesting Lacordairia cychroicles, Cast., Moriodema parra- 

 viattensis, Cast., and Siagonyx mastersi, Macl. The very fine Oucujidce, 

 Ipsaphes bicolor, Olliff, and /. mcerosus, Pasc, are both rare, as are also 

 Hectartkrmn brevifossum, Newm., and the curious linear Gempylodes 

 tmetus, Oil. ; but Brontes lucius, Pasc, and B. milifnris, Pasc, Den- 

 drophagus australis, Er., various species of Meryx, Bot/irideres, Dere- 

 taplirus, Brnchypeplus, Teretrius, Platysoma, and other Clavicorus are 

 more or less plentiful. A very handsome bronzy Heteromeron, with 

 curiously spiked thorax, Blepegenes aruspex, Pasc, sometimes occurs 

 rather commonly, with Platydema and the allied blue Ceropria pere- 

 grina, Pasc, and the rarer black C. valga, Pasc. Many species of 

 weevils, too, are found iu this way, notably several forms of Poropterus, 

 not unlike Acalles on a large scale ; also the interesting Brenthidcd, 

 Ceocephalus internatus, Pasc, C. tenuipes, Pasc, and Trachelizus Jiowitti, 

 Pasc, as well as the pretty little red and black Cosaonus p>'>'(sustus, 

 Redt., and some interesting small forms of Scolytidce. 



Turning over stones 1 have never found very productive, but logs 

 always repaid examination, when not too much infested vi^ith Termites. 

 The fine ScaritidcB so plentiful in some parts of the interior of 

 Australia are not well represented near Sydney, only one Carenum 

 (honellii, Brulle) having occurred to me ; but the large and robust 

 black Scaraphites macleayi, Westw., is still sometimes taken on the 

 same ground near Darling Point, now part of the city, where it was 

 first found fully forty years ago. The Garahidoe to be obtained under 

 logs include the pretty red spotted Episcomius australis, Dej., the 

 large and handsome Carahus-Yike Pamhorus alternans, Latr., the flat 

 brown Helluo costatus, Bon. ; Morio australis, Cast, (usually on heaps 

 of sawdust at the Illawarra sawmills), several species of Notonomus 

 (allied to Pterostichus) , one or two of them, as N. regalis, Cast., and 

 N. triplogenoides, Chaud., being very fine and conspicuous beetles ; 

 Eutoma IcBve, Cast, (rare), and several species of Clivina, of which 

 some, as C. procera, Sloaue, are of quite respectable size. Pheropsophus 

 verticalis, Dej., is not uncommon in rather damp places, and is a very 

 efiicient " Bombardier ;" and the singular sluggish dull black Mystro- 

 pomus suhcostatus, Chaud., whose facies somewhat recalls that of 

 Blaps, also possesses a well-marked power of "crepitation." It is 

 found not rarely under deeply embedded logs in the National Park 

 and Illawarra. In wet places under logs, GJtlcenius marginatus, Dej., 



