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shrubs from Mount Bryan to Callington, from the Murray to 

 Ardrossan. 



The Ehtnchophora, or weevil-like Coleoptera, are the most 

 numerous family here as elsewhere, furnishing at least 20 

 genera, with 289 species. The Bruchidce and their relatives 

 number 22 species, some over an inch in length and some 

 under a quarter of an inch ; some of very strange appearance, 

 caused by curious excrescences upon prothorax and elytra ; all 

 are wingless, mostly living on or under the ground ; their 

 elytra are firmly joined in one piece of armour. The Cur- 

 culionidce present 21, the Ant l lionom idee 30 species, some of which 

 are active all the year. Bliyncliaena, with Gonipterus, count 

 29 species, one of the latter in almost endless variety ; 

 Apoderus 20, Antliribus 15, the Apionidee with over 20, 

 Cossonus 8, the largest infecting Eucalyptus rostrata, Bliino- 

 macer 5, all rare ; Eurhynclms 3, Hypplwrynus 4, including the 

 giant, and also the most beautiful (the black and golden green 

 Diamond "Weevil) of the whole family ; Balanitis, with its 

 kindred, 38 ; Mhinotia 15, and Belus 26 species. Both the 

 latter genera are peculiar to Australia. Lixus occurs in one 

 species, said to have been obtained near Angaston. 



The LojfGicoEis'iA, the long-horned or "Wood Beetles, are well 

 represented by 118 species in about 26 genera, but many are 

 very rare. The first in array are the Prionidee, with five well- 

 defined species ; the larvae of the largest feeds within the 

 trunks of the Casuarince, the beetle attaining the length of 

 nearly three inches; another • species peculiar to Eucalyptus 

 viminalis and rostrata, measures 2j inches. The large oval 

 holes seen in timber are due to their larva3, the circular ones 

 being drilled by the larvae of moths. Both kinds of larvae are 

 eaten by the natives. The Cerambida (Mallodon, Bpiihora, 

 &c.) number 18 species, the largest exceeding \\ inch in 

 length. PyrocantJia contains 18 species, the commonest, 

 P. recurva, is found sometimes swarming in hundreds after 

 sunset around felled gumtrees, or broken branches, in the bark 

 of which their eggs are deposited, the larvae, when hatched, 

 feed first upon the bark and afterwards enter the splinth. 

 This species extends to the Northern Territory. Molorclms 

 contains one species, noticed at Lyndoch and Monarto. Of 

 Clytus (or a closely allied form) there are three species ; of 

 Phacodes, Callidypsis, and another one each ; Clilytliantlius and 

 Leptura two each ; Stenodema numbers ten ; Stenoptera four ; 

 Hesthesis three species. Both the latter genera have their 

 elytra very much reduced in length, simulating wasps in 

 appearance. One species of Hesthesis seems identical with 

 H. plorata, from Tasmania, the other is much larger. One 

 species of Eurispa, one resembling Ctenodes, two genera, 



