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species in plenty on Mount Tambourine, 20 miles south of Brisbaue, 

 Queensland, in November and December. The bill is covered with 

 luxuriant tropical forest, and amongst this be found P. calliplqca in 

 great numbers resting on the flowers or a small shrub (Claoxylon 

 oust rale, one of the Euphorbia cece) ; it seemed strictly confined to 

 this plant, but considering the known habits of the group, the moths 

 were probably feeding on the flowers, and the food- plant of the larva' 

 would be something quite different. 



Elmswood, Marlborough : 

 January, 1902. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF ORIENTAL LIMNICRINI (COLEOPTERA, 

 F AM. B YR R RLDM) . 



BY D. SHARP, M.A., M.B., F.li.S. 



When studying the Central American Limnichini for the Biologia 

 Centrali Americana, I found that 1 must establish several new genera, 

 and 1 was very much surprised, on comparing the Oriental forms in 

 my collection with those from the New World, to find that there was 

 an extreme similarity. Nevertheless, on investigating the structural 

 characters it seems that most of the Oriental forms will be placed in 

 genera different from those of the New World, and I here establish 

 two new genera for the eastern forms. One of the eastern species I 

 cannot, however, distinguish from Gyphonichus, a Central American 

 genus. 



Although the Limnichini are amongst the most neglected of the 

 Goleoptera, they prove to be of considerable interest. The arrange- 

 ments of minor structural [joints so as to facilitate the perfect packing 

 together of the limbs when " feigning death " are really remarkable. 

 Extremely few exotics forms have yet been described, though it is 

 now evident that the subfamily is rather richly represented in tropical 

 regions. The Munich Catalogue of Coleoptera enumerates only two 

 species as occurring outside Europe and North America. I have re- 

 cently described some twenty or thirty Central American forms, and 

 the descriptions 1 now make of some Oriental allies will prevent its 

 being supposed that the subfamily is absent from the eastern tropics. 

 The two exotic species listed in the Munich Catalogue are from 

 Tasmania and the Cape Verde Islands. The genus Ersachus, placed 

 by Erichson in Limnichini, and since quite lost sight of, must be 

 removed to the family Parnidce. 



