20 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
Xylonichus and Hurychelus marmoratus, Blanch.—the latter a 
darker colour than the Blue Mountain variety. The Xylonychus 
were buzzing around every night in great quantities, and could 
be shaken off almost any Hucalyptus coriacea in the district. 
It is probably an undescribed species, though resembling the 
Tasmanian X. pilzger, Blanch., in its hairiness, but very much 
larger. It is probably the species that Mr. Helms mistook for 
X. eucalypti in his list of the Kosciusko fauna, since that species 
was nowhere encountered. This hairiness is a very common 
feature of Kosciusko coleoptera, and certainly a warm clothing 
is very suitable to the snowy surroundings. Some of the most 
hirsute forms I possess are amongst the Kosciusko captures, 
many of them belonging to genera not usually pilose. For 
example a new species of Dedrosis is thus furnished, while 
some of the Liparetrus, and other allied forms were remarkable 
for the excess of this vestiture. 
One of the most interesting captures (we took six specimens 
either at Betts’ Camp or Pretty Point) was Lepispilus stygianus, 
Pase. Some doubt has been cast on the distinctness of this 
species from L. sulezcollis, Bois.—a doubt somewhat emphasised 
by Mr. Champion (Trans. Hnt. Soc. Lon., 1894, p. 393) who 
examined the type (apparently a single old specimen) in the 
British Museum, and thought it possibly a worn-down form of 
that common N.S. Wales species sulcicollis. My own specimens 
were quite fresh, and in each case were quite black, shining, 
and in shape and sculpture quite different to the mottled grey, 
opaque form described by Boisduval (specimens of which—very 
fine ones too—were also captured in this district). 
Another interesting beetle is the beautiful Diphucephalua 
elegans, Blackb.—perhaps the finest of that fine genus in’ 
Australia. I have seldom seen any plant so covered with beetles 
as the Pultensea (fasciculatus ?) was with this lovely iridescent 
green and gold insect. A small Diphucephalid with a coppery 
abdomen found near Pretty Point, is probably new. 
My last two nights on the mountain were especially reserved 
for Pretty Point, where a small tent had beén planted on the 
ride upwards for myself and son. We collected busily on two 
occasions—the ten-mile walk between Betts’ Camp and Pretty 
Point. It is worthy of note that the larger Carabide are scarce 
beyond about half-way between these points, while the larger 
growth of trees proclaim the belt in which some fine Carabs 
are fairly plentiful. Several species of Notonomus, including 
one that is probably new, were amongst our booty here. 
Some curious Cryptorhynchid weevils are common at this 
point, under logs, and so closely do they resemble the rotten 
wood that they are at first difficult to see. An Athemistus sp. 
was also similarly picked up in some quantity, together with a 
Ceratognathus of two kinds which I have not yet identified. 
