THE TASMANIAN
it lack,,:[ something which nature had
'prodded for these iO\\'lv creattLl'e,;-the
bUl'rowing in th(' earth. ,. I often accom-
.[,anied lily little pet out in the o-pen, and
it W'H most ple'15ing to observe the won-
(!erful a"la.ptability with which its pig-
Jikp ';!lout ',vould loe forced under the
t'arth. J WHiI ven' S01T\' to find thu.t
11 fter :1 week 01' m,v gunni grew
duller 11 nel weaker, and one morning t,he
'little 011e was foumi to be quite
he i.., now ill a of Taslnaniun nlalll-
,ma],; in tll" La:lIlce"ton }luseulll. Some
little time after I had the pleasure of
n,reh'ing a pr'2,ent 0; two very tiny lic.tle
gllnni. wllwh hat! not IYeen clothed very
long, tll .. mother having got into one of
tho .. b:lI'barO'lls spring traps which coun,
t,],y boys are eo fond of setting, and t,hu"
'torturing many illnocent Eves. All that
was possible was done for these
"ba,by bandies," but they pined away,
and also form case specimens in
NATURALIST.
the Launceston :MuseuID. I am
sU!'e my friends of the Tasmanian
Club will ag'l'"e witb me in
saying that we c,Ln learn lllany a valu-
able le'5wn from suell lowlv creatures of
our fOTest, s,hollld pIe-dge onrseive.,
to protect our native fauna in e\'ery pos-
,;ible way, and put down very firmly ,the
cow,arelly crnclty that our poor dumb
friends have to ".utfer fl'O-lll th,e \vanton
hands of t,houg"ltle"" perwlls. '''hen
we learn to stuu v the wom['edul life 'lId
ha,bits of the 10\;'e1' creatures we can re-
ciproca te tile ",entiments of the poetess-
1 wis:l voucould. have se,en tll'em there ,.
It did my spirit good
To see the small things God had ma,de
Thus eating in t:he wood.
I hope later on to forward it f.ew morc
remarks on other little animals I had the
pleaslIl"> of acquainted with,
eamp-out of toe 'l.9asmanian '3ield :/Yaturalists
on fBruny Island.
lilY ICILLVE E. LORD.
Tt ,wu,s uedde'd to ,ho.}d .the 80vember
camp of the dUll> at Po I'd :Bay, BI'uny
J,"hnti. Th'i" 'ba v is on Ithe ,ch:annel side
o,f the bLml, a Ifttle ,to the ne>l"t'h ,of It,he
i5.th,:lhl'''; bet,w,cpn XOl,bh un'd 'Bl'uny.
_l 1',lIlding was lHa'.le IOn I:'h:burdwy,the
Hell, and 'bl' :t':lc,tillle 'lJlivrkne:ss Illa'a ,ialUeu
t he Wilt,,' were piltc:1H'd amI elvel"y;thing
lVas sl!;IP-.,11':I'l"". A'Hel' teu, Ip-la,nti 'wel'.e
d.i;!l'u'sspj, all,l IV<' Ithen .turn'ed :in to hl'l,\'e
a 'lwIII'PY Viillle w('bh ,t,he Il1llos'IlI'itoe,s, ,wh;ilch
weTe y!ery Ela.}il.y ,0,11 'Suuda,y
IHorning we Te',nJy to Elt'aTlc. ISollne
olf 'tl:lC !p-al'ty 'w,cnt t'o Nle
t,1) _'.:l\',e'n'tuil'e 13:1,1' .or Calpe 'Fl'ederi.;k
I-Jl\lll'Y, et,(,.', 'rh!e ilalgoo:Il.S Iwe,re si1tlKlt.eIJ
il,b'LHllt, thl'P'(' lulrles 'h'IO'ltl our c:a.mIP, 1(1:nd
,:O'll,sbt 10: one ,I;al'ge .and numelrlQ'IIiS 'i;maH
,S:OlTIle dista,n.ce Jiroln the Ingoon:-;,
an,l 'f]oI'l',}' ,1 ;s'andhill, is .Ad,ven.t,ure Bay,
w:IPl'e til
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el"e is fL yerv fine hea.!cih; hut,
a:s tite'rehad no't Ibeen ;'tny r.oug:h IlVea ther
for sOllle It,jme, .f,e'w .s'hC'l'is Iwere found.
W,hlillst w:tlk:in'g' alolll;l' the 'bea'Clh ,two
dead seals were noticed. Adventure Bay
hI te'J1111i'llatecl at the north 'by 'a he'a'c1-
laml, anld ,t-he'n Icliffs ex,tend 'for mj;Jes,
t'he mo','t easterly roeill'g calmed
C.1]l F,rederiek :Henry. In Ith:ese C;ljfl',5
a. cor,moTIl'nt,s' Iwas dlis(}orveTed,
but wfter se\'cr,illl aitftelmlpts it ,w,ws :C'OU-
impo .. Ito ge,t "<1O/W'Il to 'the
neIRt" II'OlpeS, so j,t 'WIlL,s de<cided
( 13 )
t,o wait ti;! next day, .w.hen It,he,se 'cIQuld
be procmel!. I\\"ldbt wakhing COI'-
lll!Orant:-5 'a hn'ge fWlliS dbserved
laloll;g ,t';le,;lwlre. On the 'w:ay
btt1ek to .("limp mIe of Vhe Illarty visited.
ihe Sil'Idh
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L'IlS ami dismovel"ed a roo'kerv
of lpengu'ini,"i., fhese binls h:aN.ing'
nes,t" in 'burrow:; ,in ,tllie s'aldhilJi,l. IFl"o'lll
'uhe ea.r.s o'f one '0: ell:e !pel1lguins sonue
sam,m ti'ck" .\\('l'e ollllta,ill'ed, ,ho'tlt ewI'S
heilllg quite fii:e'd with them. On 1.Y1J0'1l-
lbty o().f ,the Iparty w,eilllt ':l'3'hill'J, amI
s'o,me wPJ]t t.he is'thmnH; hut the
e.l'iflf ,\V;,\18 a, ,visit Ipaid :by ,some ot
of the members to the cormorants' rook-
ery. The eliffs at the rookery are perhaps
fl50ft. h'i<glCt, 'and ar,e Ifa:irly ea,sy ,to
de:;lcel1ll to ',vit'lliu <Llbo'llt 1200H. 'olf ,fhe
\\"'ttel', ,tha't tilley aTe pI1a,eti-
ea]ly . pP'I'!pe,ndieuJ'al'. IHundred,.; of e,o'l'-
!.nor:a,l1ts were oib-served on ,bheir nests,
\\'h:idl extel1'.l fo,!' a'ho,ult 'a mi
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1e along t,he
diff's, a'lId are IJui1t of Ipi;g- wce,cI and
ou the Iedlge.s a,t ,the foot. The
birds were the large ,pied 'C.uIunorant--
le ev'ld,ent-
Iy 'tlheir lw"ting' se.a,son 'WlLS it 'li:ttlc'
cUIIFie'!' tha,n thp da,te ,of Oiur arri\'al, .as
H10S,t of the ne,o;lb3 ll'acl ylo:un;g one;s j,n
them. de',cell"wLn'g as far as ipos-
si'hJ.e 'by U{llWl1 ,t.he ro:ck!i1, one
of the pa,!,ty wa,ij Ilowered to the ,rookery
with ,some volpes 'brougM for t'lmlt pur--
THE TASMANIAN NATURALIST.
; J)[)se. rrillis Wll S '<.!one onlly ru:tibe'r a gOOd
deal o'f time hall 'been 'ilpent iI1 wbte.nd-
:i ng to Ithe ncce:s8>l,ry IPrtlcaJuUons against
a(lhlents. De"pite "uhe latencSls of the
;E'I:l';;O!L sever,\,1 c11\1bc'he,s olf elg'&i'I ,were
were procured. It was aSltonishini
tincl l1O<w qni,['kly :the time Ipa,sse{t
whiht eXiplo,dlllgT t'he nJl()kerie,s, ,lmd,
tholllg,h, they ,\I"Ne only re;ruched ,in IP'lr.t,
\I'hen we h:l'.l ,c(')He,(!ted S10me stpie:dimC'ns it
was ,t,ime to reltnl'll to crullJiP. BCiddes
the CO'l'Ill'orants, llIany guns, gannets,
a nld tel'n8 '\Yere oascllved, a'ls'o a faw ,pen-
gnins, dJoiitere1i;, etc.,
whilst 'I\II'tiher inla'IlId t'he 'lnost., {,Olllmon
biI'ds HIp;peaH'd 'bo l)e IPiurakeets,
honey-ea-te,lOs ,of 'Senl'rall s.pecies, diwmlOlud
bird!s, ,tree and 81\\"allo\\'", wrens,
an.! ',everaJl Bpelcies 'of cnoJ.wos. The
"hieif kinds of fb;h {j,H1ght ,'were ,fh,Vhead,
'"<tried m'ith am ,Qc!ca'SJolllaJl cod, ",knlt.e, or
dogfish. On Tuesruay Imorn:ing we re-
tunltd 'to lIlohart, Iwhiirch wa's re:n.llhed as
the Otlke dOlck was iltriki'l1g n.
On a :New and fRemarR.able genus, of !Blind
!Beetles from :Jlustralia and 'l9asmania
of t6e 'l9rie60pterygidl2.
BY M, LEA.
Recently, having occasion to identify a
:species of the family Tnchopterygidae,
from King Island, I carefully examined
.Matthew's monograph of that family,
and one of the genera figured struck me
instantly' as being familiar. This genus,
Lil1lnlodes,* is remarkable in that its only
(at least then known) member has no
eyes or wings, that its mouth parts are
'Concealeld, and th1alt the :int,e'rcoxal pro-
cess of its prosternum is very wide, and
produced backwards on to the metaster-
num, with its hinder apex bilobed. On
examining my collection of the family,
I found that at least four species (pos-
sibly five, of which, however, ,one is
represented by a un1que specimen)
.agreed in all these remarkable features,
and that their outl'ines were very much
the same as those of Limulodes. They
all evidently belong to one genus, but
:this genus differs from Limulodes, al-
t.lOugh evidently very 'Close to it, in
having the antennae more than nine-
jointed and of differerrt shape, and the
abdomen entirely cover,ed by the elytra.t
All the species occur in ants' nests,:j: and
all appear to be quite common, al-
though on account of their exceedingly
small size they are readily overlooked.
I have taken them in the nests of a,t
least five kinds of ants (usually under
stones), and in \Vest Australia, ew
IBouth Wales, and Tasmania.
I have very great pleasure in dedicat-
ing the genus (certainly the most inte
resting one known to me from Tasmania)
to our chairman, Mr. Leonard Rodway.
:j:As also does Limulodes paradoxus .
'fln several specimens of one species
,the tip of the abdomen is exposed, but
this was probably due to improper
treatment.
*Plate 16 and i)late 2'3, fig. 103.
:R.odwayia, n. g.
Head small, widely transverse, im-
mersed in prothorax, its outline continu-
ous with outline of that segmerrt, mouth
parts concealed, eyes wanting, antennae
thin; first joint stout, concealed by head;
.second stout, outline slightly dilated to-
wards base, longer than wide, the length
of three following joints combined; third
,thin, veory little longer than wide; four,th
the wid:th of,but slightly longer than,
thIrd; fifth sub equal in length with
fourth; third to fifth parallel-sided;
,sixth slightly shoder than fifth, and
.slightly dilated to apex; seventh short-
er than sixth, and Slightly more dilated;
eighth .subtriangular, and forming small-
est and basal joint of club; ninth
transverse, wider than eighth, apex
rounued; tenth subpyrHorm, the length
of three preceding joints combined. Pro-
,thorax very large, regularly convex, sides
r,ounded, IbiMle truncate, /but p08!te,r'ior
angle.s produced, and embracing elytra.
absent.* Ely,tra small, nar-
rower than, and outline continuous with
that of prothorax. Pro sternum with
the sides produced downwards like .fiaps;
intercoxal process very wide, produced
backwards over metasternum, hinder
apex bilobed; abdomen entirely conceal
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