162 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



4. Berkeley (M. J.)—" Gardener's Chronicle." 791, 1878. 



Description of Cordyceps Meuesteridis. 



5. Cooke (M. C.)— "Australian Fungi." Grev. XVIII., 8, 1889. 



Description of StiUnuji Forinicarinn. 



6. Cooke (M. C.) — "Handbook of Australian Fungi." Loudon, 



1892. 



Contains a teclinical description of all the Victorian 

 species, with the exception of Cordyceps Taylori. 



7. Cooke (M. C.)—" Vegetable Wasps and Plant Worms." 



S.P.C.K., London, 1892, 



This is a popular account of fungi parasitic upon 

 insects, and may be taken as a record of all 

 known up to date. 



8. Saccardo (P. A.) — " Sylloge Fungorum," I.-X. vols. Padua, 



1882-92. 



Contain description of all known fungi, including those 

 of Australia. 



9. Tisdall (H. T.)— "A Curious Fungus." Vict. Nat. VL, 



1889. 



Species of Cordyceps growing from an ant (Formica 

 corisobriiia) and found by INIr. C. French, F.L.S. 



10. Tisdall (H. T.)— "On a species of Isariar Vict. Nat. X., 



1893. 



Found on a cocoon supposed to be that of the moth, 

 Darala ocellata. 



Notes on Life History of Insect. 



Oncoptera intricata, Walker. 



1. Ova. 



Ovie, taken from ovary, smooth, yellowish-brown, oval, 

 about 'G nun. diameter. 



2. Larva. 



Length, 5^ cm. 



Head, black and polished. 



Thoracic segments, black and hairless. First segment, a 

 plain indurated collar. Second and third, plated with 

 conspicuous, polished, cliitinous prominences, arranged 

 transversely. 



