THE INSECTS OF KING'S SOUND AND ITS VICINITY. 



By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. 



I have oa previous occasions announced to the Society the 

 receipt of collections made by Mr. Froggatt in the King's Sound 

 district of north-west Australia, and now I am enabled to report 

 the return of iNEr. Froggatt himself, with very considerable addi- 

 tions to his already large stock of Coleoptera. The result of his 

 twelve months collecting is now before me, numbering about 1000 

 species, very many of them new. 



I propose in this and subsequent Papers to give as complete a 

 list as I can of all the species in the collection, believing that I 

 shall thus be best enabled to give Entomologists an idea of the 

 value and variety of the Fauna of that part of Australia. 



Short descriptions are given of the new species, and the references 

 to those previously described are confined to the numbers attached 

 to each in Mr Masters' Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Australia 

 published in our Proceedings.* 



Family CICINDELID^. 



1. Tetracha HoPEi, Castln. 

 Mast. Cat. Col. Sp. 8. 



2. Tetracha Australasi.*!, Hope. 

 Mast. Cat. Col. Sp. 3. 



3. CiciNDELA ciRCUMCiNCTA, Castehi. 

 Mast. Cat. Col. Sp. 13. 



4r. CiciNDELA Froggatti, Macl, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Ser. 2, Vol. II. p. 213. 



•Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. X., 1st Series and Vols. I. and II. of 

 2nd Series. 



