Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 33 
ouaya, and other rivers of the interior parts of South 
America; but I doubt very much 7. Waterhousw having 
the same habits; the brilliant green and metallic sorts 
being diurnal, and fond of running and flying about 
under the rays of a tropical sun. I have lately seen, in a 
collection made on the western coast, specimens of a 
Tetracha, which seem identical with Humeralis. 
Distipsidera is only represented in my collection of Aus- 
tralian insects by five species, of which four are known. 
Undulata, from the Clarence River, Brisbane and Rock- 
hampton. Cursitans, Macleay, junr., equally from the Cla- 
rence and from Brisbane. Volitans, MacLeay, from Port 
Denison, and (Grutii: Pascoe, from Lizard Island, on the 
north east coast of Carpentaria. The fifth species appears to 
be undescribed, and I will mention it under the name given 
to it in Mr. Deyrolles’s collection. 
Distipsidera Stranger: length 64’, breadth 2’; resembles 
very much Cursitans, but a little more slender ; head and 
thorax of a darker tinge ; the humeral white spot covering 
almost all the breadth of the elytra by its sinuations; the 
apical spot more transverse ; the legs of a light brown; the 
anterior thighs without any obscure spot ; those of the other 
two pairs, having a feeble black line on their inferior side ;_ 
labrum of an obscure yellow ; antennz brown, with their 
articles from three to six black. 
I do not know from what part of the Australian continent 
this insect was obtained. 
Of Circindela, I possess several sorts that I believe 
undescribed, without being able to certify the fact ; Baron 
Chaudoir’s catalogue of Cicondelidee not having yet reached 
this colony. Such are the following :— 
Cicindela Masteri: length 5’, breadth 12’; brown, or dark 
ereen ; labrum white; mandibulz of the last colour, with 
their extremity of a dark green; antennze of the same 
colour; thorax short; elytra with 1st, a white triangular spot 
near the middle of the margin; 2nd, a short line below, follow- 
ing the margin and often joining the first ; and 3rd, a lunula 
at the apex; near the suture, and towards the two posterior 
thirds of the length is a spot also white, which sometimes 
unites with the triangular one. Inferior parts of the body 
of a dark blue, and covered with a white pubescence ; 
legs copper colour, with the base of the thighs green ; tarsi 
of the last colour. This little species is not rare on. the 
Eastern Creek, in New South Wales. 
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