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NOTES ON SOME MISCELLANEOUS COLEOPTERA, WITH 
i DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES.—PART V 
By Artuur M. Lera, F.E.S., Museum Entomologist. 
[Contribution from the South Australian Museum.] 
[Read September, 12, 1919.] 
PLATES XXV. ro XXVII. 
Many interesting ants'-nest species are recorded in the 
present part, this being especially due to the efforts of Mr. J 
in Victoria ; others were also received from Messrs. W. an 
F. du Boulay (sons of the late F. du Boulay), from New South 
Wales and Western Australia; E. H. Zeck, New South Wales; 
rown, Western Australia; R. J. Burton, A. H. 
Elston, and B. A. Feuerheerdt, South Australia; and F. P. 
Dodd and H. Hacker, Queensland. 
r. Clark paid much attention to nests of the common 
twig-mount ant, Iridomyrmez conifera, Forel, which builds 
mounds of small leaves and twigs that may often be fired. 
Shortly after he began the examination of the nests he wrote 
p: p or © Name received from Prof. Wheeler. 
