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the Monaro district, and in similar positions in the Upper Mur- 

 rumbidgee itself, and its tributary, the Queanbeyan River. How 

 far its habitat extends upwards into the Snowy Mountains, or 

 downwards along the course of these rivers towards the Plains, 

 remains yet undetermined. 



The other insect to which I referred, a small brilliant, brassy, 

 black beetle, can scarcely be separated from the genus Cymindis of 

 Latreille. It was found tolerably abundant under stones on the 

 long sloping Downs beyond Cooma, and in the vicinity of Spring 

 Flat. I subjoin a description of this, and another species which 

 much resembles it. 



CtMINDIS iENEA. 



Long. 2j lin. 



-^neo-nigra nitida, capite subconvexo, thorace subtiliter cana- 

 liculato, elytris viridi-nigris leviter striatis, corpore subtus 

 femoribusque piceo-nigris, antennis palpis tibiis tarsisque 

 piceo-rufis. 



Cymindis Illaware^. 

 Long. 3 lin. 



-^Eneo-nigra nitida, thorace medio canaliculato ad latera mar- 



ginato, elytris viridi-nigris leviter striatis, corpore subtus 



piceo-nigris antennis palpis pedibusque rufis. 



This species, which, as its name indicates, was found in 



lUawarra, differs from cenea in being much larger, in having the 



legs entirely red, and in the form of the thorax, which is more 



regularly rounded, and more broadly margined on the sides. 



The two species described by me (Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, 1864, p. Ill and 112) under the names of Gymindis 

 longicollis and angustioollis, do not belong to the genus, but 

 probably belong to Baron de Chaudoir's genus XanthopJioea. 

 Gymindis curtula Erichsen is a PMlophlaeus and Gymindis in- 

 quinaia of the same author is probably an Agonocheila. This 

 reduces the number of Australian species of Gymindis to three, 

 the two now described and G. crassiceps, described by me in a 

 previous Paper. 



