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were plenty of stumps and logs in various stages of decay, though 

 unfortunately all very dry ; but under the loose bark I obtained one 

 or two fine Elaters of large size, a fin^e black, punctured Heteromeron 

 an inch or more long, like a common Port Darwin insect, only quite 

 twice the size, Apate sp. (very fine), several Cucujidce (including a 

 handsome parallel black insect, which I thmW^Su Passandra), Cleridce, 

 CossonidcB, &c. — all different from any which I had previously met 

 with, and very interesting. I also made a good haul under loose flakes 

 of bark of white gum {Eucalyptus sp.), including several of a beautiful 

 Longicorn (? Fhoracantha) , with small spinous processes on each 

 joint of the antennae, in build somewhat like a large Hi/lotrupes, but 

 punctured all over, and beautifully mottled with shades of light and 

 dark brown ; also some weevils allied to Acalles, a species somewhat 

 like TJiymalus in aspect (of which I have found many species south- 

 wards, it is apparently a large Australian genus), various Qarahidce allied 

 to Dromius, &c., &c. Not much by sweeping, beyond a very nice Fele- 

 cofomoides, with splendid antennae in J" ; a very British-looking 

 Jphodius in cow-dung, and a few small species allied to Opatrum 

 under stones, w^ith, of course, Corynctes violaceus under bones, &c. ; 

 some nice little LmneUicorns, BrenthidcE, weevils, &c., were also taken 

 at light in the telegraph quarters, where the officials kindly kept for 

 me whatever flew in of an evening. 



E-oebuck Bay is not by any means a pleasant place to land at, 

 except at the very top of high water, as the tide rises and falls quite 

 30 feet, and at low tide you have to plod as best you can over a mile 

 and a half of sandy mud. But altogether I enjoyed my stay there 

 very much, after our long exile on the " Holothuria Banks." 



Our next port of call was Port Walcott, or Cossack (about 10 

 miles from Roeburne, which place I was unfortunately unable to visit), 

 still I had a good day at Cossack, where the soil is sandy and treeless, 

 in fact, not very unlike many places on our own coast. The heat was 

 so intense in the middle of the day (107° at 2 p.m. in the shade), 

 that I did little or no work after 11 a.m., taking it easy in the 

 hotel at Cossack. I managed to get 21 or 22 species of Coleoptera, 

 including a large number of a beautiful blue Heteromeron ; the latter 

 occurred at the roots of the bent-grass. A pair of a very fine Bu- 

 prestid {^tigmodera sp.), an inch and a quarter long, brilliantly marked 

 with dark blue on a bright yellow ground (the finest beetle yet ob- 

 tained by me in Australia), was given to me by a resident at Cossack. 

 Fieris teutonia was abundant and very fine, and numbers of the larvae 

 were collected from the Capparis bushes, from which I bred a very 

 nice series. 



