July 30, 1910. The Queensland Naturalist. 
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REPORTS ON EXCURSION TO GLASS HOUSE 
MOUNTAINS, 30th APRIL to 2nd MAY, 1910. 
(a) ENTOMOLOGY. 
By R. Illidgo, 
The insect fauna of the district, under notice during 
our two excursions to the locality, viz., September, 1909, 
and May-Day, 1910 was especially notable for its exceed- 
ing paucity. How to account for this is a question which 
only an extended acquaintance with the suriounding 
country could solve. The flora appears fairly rich, and 
many plants found there as the present time round Bris- 
bane yield interesting forms of life. The mosquito, quite 
a pest in various localities still, was there almost absent, 
and the same might be said of flies, grass-hoppers, and 
the like. In fact, the general scarcity of all insects was 
indeed remarkable, and close searching revealed a meagre 
number, of Avhioh I append a list. Amongst them, how- 
ever, are one or two deserving of special notice. The first, 
a member of a curious family of Coleoptera, the Brenthidse, 
and probably of the genus Amorfhocefhalus. was found 
associated Avith some large ^xxt^—Cam^onotus sp. Of 
these a pair only was captured, the male being armed Avith 
mandibles, and having a gular horn, like some species of 
Psalidura in the Amycterida^ a singular sub-family of 
weevils, and hence exhibiting some sort of relationship, 
bringing this group (i.e., the Amycteridae) AAoth a boring 
rostrum, nearer to the Brenthids than has hitherto been 
suspected. The other coleoptera— Garen'W-m triste — is more 
noteworthy for its rarity, as previous to this, I only knew 
of it from McLeay’s description. 
Coleoptera. 
Carabidfe : Pamborus viridis : Acrogenys hirsuta ; 
Carenum triste; Epicosmussp. (?): Notonomus tnridimarginatus, 
Histeridae : Hololepta sp.(1). Pyrochroidae : Lemodes coccinea. 
Tenebrionidae : Encara westwoodi : Adelium striatum ; 
Cardiothoraxsp.{'\). Apatelus sp. [V). Scarabeeidas : 
Cryptodus subcostatus, Curculionidae : Rhinaria signifera ; 
Chrysolophus spectahilis ; Psalidura montana ; P. suhlineata. 
Brenthidfe : Amorphocepbalus sp. (?). Chrysomelidae : Paropsis 
marmorea, 
Orthoptera (Blattidae) : Polyzosteria, sp, (limbata ?). 
Hymenoptera : Eumenidae Abispa splendida. Chrysididae : 
Stilbum splendidum. Tliynnidae ; Diamma bicolor Tliyn- 
nus, sp. (?). Hemiptera : Pentatomidae : Pcecilometis, sp. 
