Miscellanea Entomologica, 



By William MacLeat, Esq., F.L.S. 



[Read 7th July, 1873.] 



In the month of January, 1870, I made a hurried entomological 

 excursion into the Queanbeyan and Monaro districts. I was ac- 

 companied by Mr. Mastei's, of the Australian Museum, by whose 

 assistance, notwithstanding the intense heat and dryness of the 

 season, I was enabled to add a number of new and interesting 

 species to my own as well as to the public collection. 



Among the captures then made, there were two species of small 

 Carabideous insects which peculiarly interested me. One of these 

 has since been described by H. W. Bates, Esq., in the " Entomo- 

 logists' Monthly Magazine" for July, 1871, under the name of 

 Eudalia Macleayi. This genus has been associated, very properly, 

 by Mr. Bates, with a group of insects named by Lacordaire 

 Anchonoderides, and for which he proposes, and with good reason, 

 the name of Lachnophorince. 



I had previously, in the first volume of the Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society of New South Wales, page 108, described 

 a species from Port Denison as Odacantha latipennis. Count 

 Castelnau has since (Not. Aust. Col., 1867, page 16) described 

 another species from Arnheim's Land, North Australia, under the 

 specific name of Waterlwvuei. He also, at the same time, pro- 

 posed for those insects the generic name of Eudalia, but without 

 giving generic characters, and suggested their probable afl&nity to 

 the subfamily Ctenodactylides of Lacordaire. 



Mr. Bates, in the Paper previously referred to, not only de- 

 scribes the Monaro species, but gives the character of the genus. 



The habit of the insect goes far to prove the correctness of 

 Mr. Bates' hypothesis of its affinity to Lachnophoms. I found 

 the species E. Macleayi abundant close to the water in the gravelly 

 bed of the Umeralla River, a tributary of the Murrumbidgee, in 



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