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ENTOMOLOG-ICAL NOTES FROM TASMANIA. 



BY JAMES J, WALKER, E.N., F.L.S. 

 {concluded from page 157). 



jSTo Cicindelidae were met with, this group apparently not being 

 represented in Tasmania ; but the Garahidm are fairly numerous, and 

 comprise some fine forms. Of these, the most conspicuous is Perco- 

 soma carenoides^ White, which looks somewhat like an enormous black 

 Broscus, and is found not rarely under damp logs, &c., at a considerable 

 elevation. The smaller, but somewhat similar, Lychius strangulatus^ 

 Bates, occurs with it, also three or four species of Promecoderus^ 

 several of Pferostichus, and the active little Oopterus tasmanicus, Bates. 

 Running with great agility on the trunks of felled trees are found 

 several species of Scopodes, little strongly-embossed beetles, somewhat 

 like Tachypus^ with very large anrl prominent eyes, of which the finest 

 and most conspicuous, as well as the commonest, is 8. tasmanicus, Bates. 

 Under dry loose bark are found hosts of Dromius-Mko, beetles of 

 flattened form, some very prettily variegated, and of fair size {Xan- 

 thoplicea, 8arathrocrepis, Philophloeus, Amblif teles, Agonoclieila^ &c.) ; 

 while Plochionus australis, Er., is found under bark pretty high up 

 the mountain, along with the singular little Adelotopus hcemorrhoidalis^ 

 Er., a tortoise in shape, but by no means so in gait. In a fine piece 

 of marshy ground at Bellerive, on the opposite side of the river to 

 Hobart, are found several species of Anchomenus and Clivina, and 

 (rarel}^) a fine beetle allied to Oodes. The elegant Licinus-\\ke Dicro- 

 chile Goryi, Bdv., occurs in a salt marsh at '^ Muddy Plains," eight 

 miles from Hobart on the Bellerive side ; and at " Denison Grorge," I 

 met with the very fine and very active black Lestignathics cursor, Er, 



Water-beetles cannot be called abundant near Hobart, though 

 several fine species of Hydradepliaga and Philhydrida are found here, 

 which I did not come across. At Launceston I was more fortunate, 

 taking among others, the conspicuous Cyhister-\\kQ Trogus insularis^ 

 Hope, Copelatus australis, Clark, Colymbetes lanceolatus, Clark, and a 

 fine large Gyrinid, Enhydrus Howitti, Clark. 



The Brachelytra are also rather poorly represented as regards 

 number of species, the most conspicuous being the big red-headed 

 Creophilus erythrocephalus, F., which is found commonly in carcases, 

 along with a ^ne Aleochara (hcemorrlioidalis, Er.). Another handsome 

 species is Cajiits ^«ci^cw5, Er., which I once found sparingly under 

 a dead gannet on a sandy beach. Some very pretty minute species of 

 Staphylinid^ are found under loose damp bark, along with several fine 



