Notes on a collection of Insects from Gnyndnh, by 

 William MacLeay, Esq., F.L.S. 



[Read 3rd April, 1871.] 



Mr. Masters, the assistant Curator of the Australian Museum, 

 has lately returned from Ga^'iidah, a town on the Burnett River, 

 about 150 miles inland from Wide Bay, where he had been employ- 

 ed for some mouths in endeavouring to procure for the Museum, 

 specimens of the new description of Fish or Batrachian, lately 

 described by Mr. Krefft under the name of i)eratodus Forsteri. 



Mr. Masters has not oidy been so successful in the object of 

 his mission as to get nineteen of these anomalous animals, but 

 has also brought back with him a very large collection of 

 specimens in all bi-anches of Natural History. Among these the 

 collection of Coleoptera stands pre-eminent, it contains over 1,100 

 species, and numbers nearly 16,000 specimens. 



I pi'opose to give as far as I am able in this paper, a complete 

 list of this very magnificent collection, describing the new genera 

 and species, and making occasional observations on the habitats 

 &c. of the others. 



I have always hitherto in describing new genera and species, 

 adopted the system most usual with English Entomologists of 

 giving these descriptions in Latin. On this occasion I intend to 

 depart from that rule, as I believe that many of those who take an 

 interest in Australian Entomology, will infinitely prefer the 

 descriptions given in plain and intelligible English. 



CICINDELID^. 



1. — Tetracha crucigbra, MacL., W. Traris. Ent. 

 SoG. N. S. Wales, 1863, Vol. 1, page 10. 



I described this species from specimens from Rockhampton 

 and Port Denison. It is not as suggested by Count Castelnau 

 (Not. Aust. Gnleopt., page 3), identical with T. Australasice, Hope, 

 which is from Port Essington. 



