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soakage water — within about six inches. The blacks have no 

 real name especially for these larvae, but call them 'Kintala,' which 

 name they also use for another larva, and also for a dog, so that 

 they do not know much about these particular larvae. Kintala is 

 a word of the Diara tribe which inhabits the Killalpaninna 

 district." 



Recently Mr. Lea sent me a note on the larva of M. crucigera 

 which he received from Mr. J. A. Anderson, of Cairns, Queens- 

 land. Mr. Anderson when sending the larvse wrote under date 

 of 10th April, 1906 — " I got some larvae of Tetracha crucigera 

 this afternoon. There are scores of these in my yard, but as I 

 had not much time, I could only get a few; they are rather 

 difficult to get out of the earth, as they go down about a foot or 

 eighteen inches. I got these by putting a straw two or three 

 inches from the top, when they came up to push it out, and I 

 then dug them up with a spade before they could go down again. 

 I could not get any adults in the ground, nor have I seen any 

 for the past month or two." 



Tribe Cicindelini. 



The component parts of the tribe Cicindelini, as represented in 

 Australia, are variable; in this showing a marked difference f rom 

 the closely allied types (all of the genus Cicindela) found in the 

 Palsearctic and Nearctic regions of the globe. Before tabulating 

 the genera I propose to notice briefly some characters of high 

 taxonomic importance, but of which the full value can only be 

 estimated by someone with a knowledge of the Cicindelini of the 

 whole world. 



Labrum, — Lacordaire says the labrum varies greatly in respect 

 of form and particularly of size; and it is a constant rule that, 

 in every case in which it is dentate in front, the teeth are more 

 pronounced in the female than in the male (Genera, p. 2). The 

 shape of the labrum varies very little in some genera, e.g., 

 Megacephala and Distypsidera ; but in the genus Cicindela 

 (especially if the division I have called Cicindela; spuria; be 

 retained in the genus) it is very variable, although, as far as my 



