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Plusia hractea. I obtained three specimens of this splendid insect 

 Irom a young friend of mine, who captured six specimens in his fa- 

 ther's garden near Pateley Bridge, in this county, about the middle of 

 last June. I am, Dear Sir, 



Yours truly, 



KoBT. Cook. 

 To the Editor of ' The Entomologist.' 



Art. CVI. — List of Insects collected at Port Philip, New South Wales, 

 by Edmund Thomas Higgins, Esq. By Edward Newman. 



(Continued from page 369). 



Natural Order. — Carabites. 



67. Feronia Philippi. Nigra, nitida, fulgore nigro-aeneo splendida ; 

 elytra regulariter haud profunde striata, striis obsolete punctis, 

 stria tertia puncto magno pone medium impressa. (Corp. long. 

 •8 unc. lat. "275 unc.) 

 Under stones. Antennae rather shorter than the prothorax, slender 

 and brown at the tip ; the face between the antennae is impressed with 

 two very deep longitudinal furrows ; these are connected anteriorly by 

 a transverse line, and between their posterior extremities is a small 

 fovea : the prothorax is wider than the head ; its anterior and pos- 

 terior margins are nearly straight, its lateral margins much rounded, 

 and the greatest breadth is rather before the middle ; all its angles are 

 rounded ; within each posterior angle is a wide, shapeless, punctate 

 depression ; there is also a median longitudinal line, which has a large 

 fovea near its posterior extremity : the elytra are convex, wider than 

 the prothorax, their sides rounded, their greatest width rather behind 

 the middle ; each of them has eight equidistant, very shallow, scarcely 

 punctate striae ; the third from the suture has a most distinct and ob- 

 vious punctiure ; the last, that nearest the lateral margin, is much 

 deeper than the rest, and has 10 or 12 large, deep, and irregularly 

 placed punctures ; the interspace between this and the margin is 

 steel-blue, the other parts of the elytra are nigro-aeneous, and the rest 

 of the insect quite black : the tibiae are hirsute ; the apical portion of 

 Ihe protibioD is very uneven, and its interior surface has a large spine 

 \cfore the extremity ; all the tibiae are spined at the extremity. This 



