[Pboc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 20 (N.S.), Pt. II., 19o7.] Art. XI ir — Tlic Culeopteva of Kiixj Island, Bai<s Sfrdit. By ARTHUR M. LEA. (Coinuumieated by J. A. KiTshaw, F.E.S. ) [Read 12th December, 1907.] In December, 1906, in company with Mr. A. Conlon, of tlie Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, I spent a few days on King Island, where we stopped in the vicinity of Currie Harbour. Mr. Jas. A. Kershaw, of the National Museum, Melbourne, crossed over to the island with us, but had to proceed some distance away on a search for bones of an extinct emu and of various mammals. Part of Mr. Conlon's, and almost the whole of my time was devoted to collecting ; Mr. Kershaw has sent for exami-nation the whole of the Coleoptera obtained by him, and I have seen a few taken by Mr. H. J. Colbourn, by the late Mr. Alex-ander Morton and by Mr. W. Hickmott, of the island. Most of the species were taken on low-growing plants, close to the seaside, on tea-tree and melaleuca scrubs and dwarf eucalypti, never more than a mile from the seaside, on ihe beaches or in sand dunes close thereto. Bark and flower fre-c|uenting beetles are consequently sparsely represented, and very few were obtained under logs and stones. The collecting, in fact, was much the same as could be done on the N.W. coast of Tas-mania or on the S.E. coast of Victoria. For the names of 32 species I am indebted to the Rev. T. Blackburn ; I am also indebted to him for suggestions as to the generic positions of a few species. To Mr. T. G. Sloane I am indebted for four names, in addition to two others, the descrip-tions of which are included here. The " Victorian Naturalist " for January, 1888, contains an ac-count of an outing of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria to the island, with an account of the island itself and lists of the plants, birds, beetles, etc. Of the beetles 39 species are re-corded, of which, however, 16 are named by the genus only
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