THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 2) 
At Pretty Point we were rewarded by the sight of a few 
Eucalyptus coriacea in flower, but this also was followed by a 
great disappointment: That evening one of those sudden 
changes, so characteristic of Kossy, occurred—a cold spell 
with dense fog and mist. During the only two bright sunny 
hours we spent here, some rare beetles were collected, including 
a new species of Sizgmodera,a fine Longicorn (also probably new), 
Macrones exilis, Newm., and several nice Chrysomelids. 
The next two days we could only grope about in the fog, beat 
a few bushes and collect ground beetles by keeping strictly to 
the track. A fine Heteromeron was found hereinsome numbers, 
Apasis puncticeps, Lea, which is much larger than its only 
congener known to me (A. howitt?). The latter I have taken 
on Mt. Macedon, Victoria. These insects have the faculty— 
somewhat rare amongst the Tenebrionidee—of stridulating 
loudly, doubtless as a protest against the cyanide treatment. 
Lhave noticed a similar thing in Adeliwm geniale, Pasc., alone 
of this and allied genera. A handsome Chrosis was also safely 
bottled at this point. 
Pretty Point is perhaps the best collecting centre for a 
naturalist on the mountain. Here the range suddenly and 
steeply ascends, presenting a steep escarpment to the Threadbo 
Valley, and this is the happy hunting ground for the fauna of 
the lower world as well as of the Alpine forms, the vegetable 
life showing a similar connection. Nowhere in the route is the 
flora more varied and picturesque than here, and on the slopes 
leading to the Threadbo—a fact noted by that sworn friend of 
Kossy, Mr. Maiden, in his interesting papers on its flora. All 
too soon were we hurried away from this naturalists’ paradise 
to mix once more with the plain dwellers and forget the snow- 
clad slopes in a hot ride back to the capital of the Monaro. — 
T append a list of Coleoptera captured on the trip which, as 
mentioned above, does not profess to be an exhaustive one of 
the Kosciusko beetles :— / 
Carapip#.—Notonomus kosciuskianus, Sl., N. muelleri, S1.,N. 
rainbowi, SL, N. atripennis, SI., N. froggati, S1, N. sp.? 
Phorticosmns felix, Schaum., Hurylychnus blagravei, Castl., E. 
dyschirioides, Castl., 5000-6000ft.; Promecoderus concolo,Germ., 
P. inornatus, Macl., 3000ft.; P. fletcheri, 6000ft.; Sarticus 
monarensis, Sl., Idius moostus. Chaud., 3v00ft. ; Amblytelus 
cnrtus, Fabr., Adelotopus dytiscoides, Newm., Carenum bonelli, 
Brulle, C. laevigatum, Macl., Platynus marginellus, Hr., P. 
marginicollis, Macl., Diapheromerus germari, Cast., D. sp., 
3000ft.; Lacordairia marginata, Cast., ‘4000ft.; Simodontus 
australis, Dej.,6000ft.; Hypharpax sp., Hudalia macleayi, Bates., 
_ E. nsp., Mecyclothorax ambiguus, Er., n.sp,, 3000ft.; Bem- 
bidium dubium, Bl., 6000ft.; Lithostrotus ccernlescens, 3000ft. ; 
Notiophilis niger, Bl., Scopodes boops, Er., S. simplex, 6000ft. ; 
Helluo carinatus, Chaud., 3000ft. 
