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Longicornes are also largely in evidence on these attractive 

 blossoms, and of these perhaps the most couspicuous are the three 

 handsome species of Tragocerus, spencei, Hope, fasciatus, Don., and 

 hldentatus, Don., all of which occur sparingly enough to be regarded 

 as good captures whenever met with ; a still finer species, T. lepidop- 

 terus, Schreib,, is said to have been formerly not rare near Sydney, 

 but is now very seldom to be found, and I never had the good fortune 

 to fall in with a specimen. Several species of Resthesis, of which one 

 of the most common is the large grey-banded black R. murina, Pasc, 

 are remarkable for their greatly abbreviated elytra, and the close 

 mimetic resemblance which they present, especially when on the wing, 

 to the various forms of Rymenoptera that frequent the same flowers. 

 R. murina especially is a close mimic of one of the largest species of 

 Thynniis, and the very fine R. Jerruginea, Bdv. (which I have taken 

 at the National Park), has when flying a most deceptive resemblance 

 to one of the large wasps of the genus Friocnemis. Distichoceru is 

 another conspicuous genus, of which the finest is D. macleayi, Newm. ; 

 the c? of this beetle is deep-black, and the ? bright ferruginous-red, 

 the smaller and commoner species, D. macuUcollis, Kirby, and D. thom- 

 soneUa, White, differing in a similar manner in the two sexes ; the 

 males of all the species are remarkable for their broadly flattened and 

 serrate antennae. Erosche?na poweri, Newm., is an excellent mimic of 

 the red-and-black forms of Li/cidcB (Metriorrliynchus) which are very 

 numerous on the flowers ; indeed, it is not easily distinguished from 

 them at first, except, when caught, by its harder texture. Many 

 pretty little species of the genera Aridcdus, Syllitus, Stenoderus, 

 Pytheus^ Tricliomesia, Pemvsamacra, BracJiytria^ Amphirrhoe, Tlracan- 

 thus, &c., are to be obtained more or less plentifully, but the most 

 beautiful of all are the little Obridafascialis, White, broadly banded 

 with scarlet on the deep-black elytra, and especially the lovely little 

 cinnabar-red and dark-blue Telocera wollastoni, White, which has the 

 terminal joints of the antennsD flattened out into a broad spatulate 

 club, very unusual in the tribe of beetles to w^hich it belongs. The 

 Elateridcd are represented by, among many others, the conspicuous 

 red and black species of Anilicus, and the curiously marked, but 

 scarce, Ophidius elegam, Cand., and 0. histrio, Bdv. ; a small greenish 

 pubescent species of Megapenthes ? is sometimes so abundant on 

 Leptospermum, that hundreds may be seen in the umbrella at once. 

 Many small but prettily marked Malacoderms of the genera Sele- 

 nurus, Carphurus, JBalanophorus, Laius, Telephones, &c., are common, 

 and the Gleridce are copiously represented by beautiful metallic or 



