THE INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN By William Macleay,
F.L.S., &c. In the following pages I give descriptions of some
of the novelties contained in a collection which I recently
received fi'om Cairns and its neighbourhood. The collection was
made during last year by Mr. W. W. Froggatt, the Naturalist of
the New Guinea Expedition of the previous year ; and it contains
a large number of species of all Orders of Insects hitherto
unnoticed and unnamed. It is my intention to name and describe
from time to time such of these novelties as I can find time to
work up, and in doing so I shall take the groups and families in
the order I find most convenient. On the present occasion I
confine nayself to some of the Geodephaga, Lainellicornes, and
Malacodei'ines. All the species named are from the Cairns
district, and the special localities assigned to some of the
insects, such as Barron River, Mossman River, Mulgrave River,
and Russell River, are all more or less in the vicinity of
Cairns. 1. CiCINDELA FrOGGATT