368 Mr. A. M. Lea on the Blind Coleoptcra. 



very few living specimens, but many dead ones. Mr. J. J. 

 Walker (who first took it at Hobart, in June 1901) informs 

 me that in New Zealand he obtained many specimens under 

 old logs partially buried in the sand of sea-beaches. 



Phycochus sulcipennis, Lea. 



Obtained at Hobart in company with the preceding 

 species, than which it is rather more numerous. 



CURCULIONID,E. 



Halorhynchus geniculatus, Lea. 



Numerous specimens of this species were obtained at 

 the roots of a small species of salt-bush (Atriplex) growing 

 just above high-water mark on the outer beach at Gerald- 

 ton (Champion Bay). They remained quite motionless 

 for a considerable time after being exposed. 



Halorhynchus ccecus, Woll. 



I repeatedly searched for this species at Cottesloe and 

 other beaches close to Fremantle (the original locality) but 

 never found more than two specimens; these were taken 

 at the roots of a species of spinifex grass. 



Tasmanica myrmecophila, Lea. 



The type specimen of this species was obtained in 

 Hobart under a stone in the nest of an ant. No other 

 specimen has been recorded, although the species has been 

 repeatedly searched for; but there is a minute specimen 

 in the Australian Museum (from the late Rev. R. L. King's 

 collection, without locality label, but probably taken about 

 Parramatta) which may belong to the species. The 

 specimen in question is old and dirty, but I could see no 

 eyes in its head, and from memory it struck me as 

 probably being T. myrmccopMla. 



