88 president's address — section d. 



Tlie Cicindelidce are entirely absent, so far as yet known. 

 This is of interest because, though not numerically strong in 

 the whole region, genera of this family are found in all the 

 other colonies and it is one of those which shows a resemblance 

 between the Australasian and S. American faunas, Tetracha 

 being a characteristic S. American form, with 11 species in 

 Australia, whilst another, Megacep/iala, has 2. A third genus, 

 Distypsidera, occurs in Queensland and not further south 

 than the northern part of New South Wales, whilst it is also 

 represented in New Zealand. These three genera are not 

 yet known from Victoria or Tasmania, and the family is best 

 represented in Queensland and West Australia, poorly in S. 

 Australia and Victoria, and not at all in Tasmania. 



The CarabidcB have, in Australia and Tasmania, 1 69 genera 

 and 1038 species. Of these 30 genera and 49 species are 

 found in Tasniauia of which 6 and 33 respectively are 

 peculiar to the island. The Australian genus with the 

 greatest number of species is Carenum ; but this has only 

 one in Tasmania and that is also found in Victoria. The 

 poverty of Tasmania is only slightly greater than that of 

 Victoria from which, as yet, only two species of Carenum 

 are recorded whilst elsewhere on the continent the genus is 

 well represented. The important Australian genus Prome- 

 coderus is, however, fairly well represented in Tasmania by 

 five species peculiar to the island, Victoria having nine. This 

 genus belongs especially to the south and east parts of 

 Australia and it is not thus surprising to find it well repre- 

 sented in Tasmania whilst the isolation of the latter has 

 resulted in the production of peculiar species. It has closely 

 allied genera in Chili and Patagonia. 



The two large Australian genera — Silphomorpha and 

 Adelotopus — have each only one species in Tasmania though 

 both are widely distributed from West AustraHa to Queens- 

 land. The first has 9 and the second 4 species in Victoria 

 of which none pass over the Strait whilst the single species 

 oi Adelotopus ( A. hcemorrhoidalis ) \^ identical with a South 

 Australian form. Notonomus again has only 2 species in 

 Tasmania whilst in Australia it has 58 of which 12 are 

 found in Victoria. On the other hand, Laocordaria is well 

 represented by 3 species peculiar to the island, there being 

 3 Victorian and New South Wales and one Queensland 

 species of the genus described. 



The genus Trechus is curious in having its 3 species, 1 

 peculiar to Tasmania and 2 to Queensland ; Loxandrus has 3 



