Vict. Nat. 



138 DoDD, A Collecting Trip to Herberton District, N.Q. [^'% 



the best beetle trees in the north, the Bloodwood, Eucalyptus 

 corymbosa, flowered too late. The magnificent Phalacrognathus 

 Muelleri, the pretty Neolamprima mandihularis, and the several 

 fine Buprestids and Cetonids we obtained were well worth the 

 hunting and scrambhng for. Longicorns were disappointing. 

 A fine streaked Elater and a fair number of Tenebrionidae were 

 taken, a dozen or so of the latter being strangers to Mr. Carter, 

 who is so interested in this family. Other novelties included 

 a small coppery Carenum, a handsome Pamborus, three 

 Amycteridae, various Carabidse, &c. 



Odonata. — Among dragon-flies, a superb specimen of 

 Petalura gigantea, the only one seen, and two examples of a 

 large species with brown shaded wings, which Mr. Tillyard 

 informs me is " Plancsschna costalis, a fine and rare insect," 

 were taken. We sent him about nine or ten species, all of 

 which he states " occur around Sydney, and right down into 

 Victoria, and even Tasmania." 



Rhynchota. — Cicadas, leaf-hoppers, and bugs were but 

 poorly represented, nor was anything remarkable noted in any 

 group or family. 



DiPTERA. — Flies were in great variety, many being large and 

 handsome. A gigantic Asilid, black, with yellow body, which 

 occurs in the Brisbane district, was captured. At flowering 

 shrubs we took both curious and handsome species, and at 

 over-ripe fruit a short, stalk-eyed species {Zygotrichia, sp. ?) 

 was netted. At Kuranda there are three species of these queer 

 flies, odd examples of one species having eyes three-fourths of 

 an inch apart. 



Orthoptera. — Mantids, locusts, crickets, and cockroaches 

 were few in species and numbers, and of quite ordinary appear- 

 ance. One of the Locustidse calls for special mention — perhaps 

 a different species from the southern Acridopeza reticulata, for 

 the male is black and the female has not the blue, white, and red 

 tints of this species on her body, but blue and orange. A pink- 

 winged Phasma was taken now and then, and several other 

 medium-sized species were observed. A grey insect, flattened 

 underneath, and splendidly hidden on rough-barked trees, was 

 the best we saw. Two slender, wingless species, one in the 

 scrub and the other in the grass of the forest, were occasionally 

 met with. 



Hymenoptera. — Wasps and bees were rather scarce, and so 

 were conspicuous Ichneumonidae, but we took examples of one 

 fine species, a Megalyra, with ovipositor over two inches in 

 length. The ants, teo, were fewer in species than nearer the 

 coast. The absence of the Green Tree-Ant, Gicophylla virescens, 

 the Mound Ant, Iridomyrmex purpurea, and other well-known 

 species was at once noticeable. There was a fine reddish 



