The Queensland Naturalist. 
Sept.. 1923 
35 
Insects.— The first three tniles of the journey up 
jjroved a hit rough, and provided but little in the way of 
specimens. However, just at tlie turning of' the road to 
Ihe right for our destination, a welcome change in the 
soil occurred, and coleoptera were found in considerable 
numbers under logs. Here was obtained a fine specimen 
of Triclioslornus wilsoni. a carabid of deep j)urple hue. es- 
jmeially on head and jn'otiotum. Another carabid was the 
rare (’aiTiium brishanense, shining coppery in colour. In 
the Tcnebrionidae specimens of Seirolrana mastersi 
were very numerous. On turning over the logs they 
fooked very pretty when the sun shone upon their gilded 
forms. Another smaller species, near Heirotrana repanda, 
but witJi different elytral sculpture, was taken, usuallr 
amongst debris around small bushes. Other common tene- 
brionids were Adeliiim nitidiim. ( ‘ardiot borax erraus, 
and Aeiithosns westwoodii. A new si)ecies of Corii)era, a 
single sp(HMmen, was a good find. Worlliy of note was a. 
large wec'vil, named Phalidura e.ostipennis, a member of 
a remarkable sub-family of Ciireulionidae, the Amyeteri- 
(iae, which are p(‘culiarly Australian, but of wide distri- 
bution therein, extending even to Tasmania 
and New Zealand. P. costipennis is singular 
in having a strange gular-horn, hence the 
few species which possess this characteristic have 
been called by i)r. Ferguson, “The armed-throat group.’' 
it has also large anal forceps. The female is destitute of 
these appendages, but is equally as large. Mr. Carroll, 
my companion at the time, fonnd the latter, and I the 
former (the male) on the return. In butterflies, I need 
only note Theclinesthes miskini, the ])resence of Mdiich 
usually indicates that Macrozamia grows not far away. 
Birds. — Black-cheeked Falcon (Falco melano- 
genys). After lunch on top of the mount, 
the others going on further. T started back for 
camp alone, and on reaching the foot of the hill 
a few hundred feet on, saw a species of hawk, which T 
Jiad not met with for many years, so sat down on a log 
watching, and presently, to my great surprise, it came 
and settled within twenty-feet of me. It was a fine bird, 
in full plumage, and evidently a male. 
Beyond continuing the collecting of further, beetles 
and noting some birds of common species, the walk back 
TO camp was uneventful. 
