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and austrnlis, Dej., Dicrochile gori/i, Bdv., and the fine 7). gif/ns, Cast. 

 (in the National Parli), and the beautiful green HololeitiK nitidulus, 

 Dej., occur, but the last-mentioned is very rare. Three or four species 

 of PassalidcB of considerable size, belonging to the genera Aidacocycliis 

 and Mastochilus, are met with under the larger logs, with the fine 

 stag-beetles Lissonotus nebidosus, Kirby, and Lamprima cenea. Fab., 

 the last-mentioned being often seen on the wing, or walking about in 

 the sunshine. The curious small Coprid, Cephalodesmius armiger, 

 Westw., is also somewhat diurnal in its habits. In the Illawarra in 

 April, 1903, I found the females of this beetle busily engaged in 

 filling their burrows under the logs with fresh minced-up leaves of 

 clover and other low-growing plants, presumably as food for the 

 larvae ; a habit which recalled to my recollection the proceedings of 

 the still more singular Lethrus, which I had observed in Turkey many 

 years ago provisioning its burrow with vine leaves. Liparochrus 

 silphoides, Harold, allied to Trox, but having the power of rolling 

 itself up like an Aqathidium, only in a lesser degree, and a fine species . 

 of Bolboceras(proboscidiutn, Schreib.),are met with but rarely. Among 

 the Heteromera may be mentioned the curious cylindrical Achthosus 

 westwoodi, Pasc, and A. laticornis, Pasc, the latter usually found on 

 the sawdust heaps in company with Morio nustralis ; one or two fine 

 species of the genus Gardiofhorax, and especially the lovely little 

 velvety scarlet Lemodes coccinea, Bohem., of which closely packed 

 companies of a hundred or more may be sometimes seen on the fungoid 

 growth beneath damp logs, looking almost like patches of fresh blood. 

 The large terrestrial weevils of the genera AcanfJiolophus, TaJaurliinus, 

 and Psalidura, the last rem.irkable for the conspicuous earwig-like 

 armature of the abdomen in the male, are most frequently taken under 

 logs, though occasionally they are found walking about in the open. 

 Fungi on decayed timber produces some very pretty forms of Erotylidce 

 (Episcnphula, ThalJis, &c.) with Platydema and the other small 

 Reteromera. On stripping off bark, especially when it is rather fresh, 

 one constantly meets with larvse of Buprestidw, Longicornes, &c., and 

 huge grubs of Lamellicorn beetles abound under the larger logs, but 

 it is not often that the perfect insects are found in these situations. 



Eucalyptus \)0\xg\i^\y\\\g on the ground in the "bush" which 

 retain their dried leaves for an almost indefinite time, are, as already 

 stated, excellent " traps " for Coleoptera. Several species of GarahidoB, 

 including the prettily embossed little forms of Homothen, and the 

 Heteromera, Adelium geninle, Pasc, and porcatum, Fab., the rough 

 black Seirotrana cateniilata, Bdv., and the little red-spotted Platydema 

 4i-spilotum, Hope, are always to be found under such boughs, and by 



