58 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
it. The native names available, ‘“ Maracry,” “ Marryang”’ or 
“ Maroang,” did not however readily lend themselves to this. 
Contemporary evidence also shows that in New South Wales 
the name emu neyer ran any serious risk of being displaced by 
that of cassowary;.and, also, that the name was adopted as. 
readily as words like kangaroo or wallaby by those who, from 
time to time, were concerned in establishing other 
Australian settlements. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL BEACH-COMBING. 
. (By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S.) 
Ir anyone will visit Bondi, Sandringham, or Manly on one of 
those days in November or December when a strong southerly 
has succeeded a scorching wind, he will probably find the high- 
water mark line strewn amidst other flotsam with innumerable 
insects of various orders, families and species. Hvery 
coleopterist should eagerly avail himself of such opportunities 
for collecting species that he may not easily meet with else-. 
where. ‘The writer of this has thus collected Carabidee,. 
Scarabide, Buprestide, Cerambycide and other families in 
large numbers, and recalls to memory Calosoma schayert 
(plentifully at Bondi), Diadoaus erythrurus, Cnemoplites sp., and. 
some of the larger fresh water beetles. These last apparently 
take to the air in hot weather, somewhat as we, by a converse: 
process, take to water. These adventitious visitors are not,. 
however, denizens of the beach, but have been blown perhaps. 
from some distance inland out to sea by westerly winds, only to- 
be buffetted back again by the southerly burster,when they are 
finally caught by breakers and drowned or stupefied by a more or 
less continued course of surf bathing. 
A far more interesting and informing kind of collecting is. 
the search for true beach dwellers, of which there is an extra- 
ordinary large and varied population on our coast. Thisis the: 
more interesting since its pursuit can be followed at any time- 
of the year, and with increasing success as the collector learns. 
more of the haunts, habits and periods of incubation of the. 
many species. Numbers of these thus turned up by thé writer 
have proved to, be undescribed species, while many are doubt- 
fully identified, or still under observation, as is the case with a. 
large number of the “small fry” of our commonest insects,. 
Of the larger forms Cicendela ypsilon, Dej., is one of the most 
interesting. This beautiful marble white (it is notable that 
many of our sand beetles are thus coloured—an obvious pro- 
tective character) insect evidently carries on his previous 
_ existence near the beach, but so far as I am awareits larva. and 
pupa are unknown. The imago is found commonly on all our 
sandy beaches, from November to February, basking on the: 
