THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 117 



CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A LOCAL LIST OF THE 

 COLEOPTERA FOUND AT MULWALA, MURRAY 

 RIVER, N.S.W. 



First Fragment. 

 I have long wished to make a list of the Coleoptera found at 

 Mulwala, N.S.W., where I have collected for many years, but 

 have found the task almost a hopeless one, owing to the fact that 

 there is hardly a genus among the Australian Coleoptera in which 

 anyone can identify any isolated species that may come before 

 liim Nearly all our species have been described by European 

 authors, often in publications that is e?<tremely hard to get at, 

 even in Melbourne or Sydney ; and the names under which many 

 species appear in Australian collections are of doubtful authority. 

 Lender these circumstances my attempt to catalogue the Coleop- 

 tera I have collected at Mulwala must necessarily be fragmentary. 

 Therefore I shall notice only those genera in which I can identify 

 all the local species, leaving all genera in which I cannot name 

 every local species. I believe the names given to be reliable ; 

 where I have any doubt a note of interrogation is inserted. In 

 the case of species described since the publication of the new 

 edition of Master's " Catalogue,'' in 1887, the name of the publica- 

 tion in which the description may be found is given. 



Carabida^. 

 Calosoma shayeri, Erich. 

 Gigadema longipenne, Germ. 

 This is the only member of the tribe Helluonini found at 

 Mulwala. 



Pheropsophus verticalis, Dej. 

 Hyperion schroetteri, Schrieb. 

 Euryscaphus bipunctatus, Macl. 

 Euryscaphus arenarius, Sloan e. 



Since describing this species in "Proceedings Linnsean Society, 

 N.S.W., 1887," I have had the opportunity of examining specimens 

 which appear to be identical, from Condobolin and Baradine, 

 N.S.W., and now believe that E. arena^iiis will be found to be a 

 synonym of E. minor, Macl. 



Philoscaphus tuberculatus, Macl. 



Philoscaphus carinatus, Macl. 



Laccopterum loculosum, Newm. 



Laccopterum spencei, Westw. 



Carenum ( Calliscapte7-us) campeslre, Macl. 



Carenum scaritiodes, Westw. 



Carenum arenariura, Sloane. " Proceedings Linnoean Society, 



N.S.W." 2nd series, 1888, vol. iii., p. 1114 

 Carenum murrumbigense, Macl. 

 Eutoma loddonense (?), Casteln. 

 Carenidium lacustre, Macl. 



