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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Tessaromma undatum, 



Newm. 

 Rhagiomorpha concolor, 



Macl. 

 Tritocosmia, sp. 

 Stenoderus suturalis, Oliv. 



,, concolor, Macl. 



Trichomesia newmani, Pasc. 

 Hesthesis acutipennis, Pasc. 

 Eroschema poweri, Pasc. 

 Pempsamacra dispersa, 



Newm. 

 Ipomoria tillides, Pasc. 

 Amphirhoe decora, Newm. 

 Monohammus argentatus, 



Hope 

 Ancita australis, Bdv. 

 Chrysomelid^ — 



Cadmus crucicollis, Bdv. 

 Prionopleura, sp. 



Cryptocephalus erosus, 



Saund., var. 



,, scabrosus, Oliv. 



,, viridinitenSjChp. 



Edusa, sp. 

 Colaspoides, sp, 

 Calomela curtisi, Kirby 



sp. 

 Paropsis trimaculata, Chap. 

 ,, nigerrima and several 



other species 

 Arsipoda, 2 sp. 

 Haltica pagana, Blackb. 

 Thallis, sp. 



COCCINELLIDyE — 



Coccinella transversalis, Fab. 

 Leis conformis, Bdv. 

 Novius cardinalis, Muls. 

 Rhizobius, sp. 



NOTES ON THE "NATIVE BREAD," POLYPORUS 

 MYLITTuE. 



By Henry Thos. Tisdall. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 9th May, 1904.) 

 At the last monthly meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club, I 

 read a short note on the fungus usually known as " Native 

 Bread," which excited some interest, and I was asked to expand 

 it into a paper giving further details of this singular fungus. 



A. De Barry, 1887, in his grand work on fungi, gives the follow- 

 ing information about these plants : — " There are a large number 

 of tuber-like compound fungus bodies, the real character of which 

 is still doubtful ; our ignorance of their structure or development 

 makes it impossible to decide whether they are sclerotia or some 

 other formation. Among these are Pietra fungaga, of S. Italy, 

 which is formed of Polyporus tuberaster rolled up into solid 

 masses with bits of soil, stones, and the like, and the tuberous 

 fungoid bodies named Mylitta, which grow beneath the surface of 

 the ground to the size of a fist or a head, and are known only in 

 the sterile state." 



It would be well here to notice what De Barry means by 

 sclerotia. All fungi are formed either (i) of long, very minute 

 tubes termed hyphae, such as we see in any of the common 

 moulds, where the hyphae are matted together, forming a 

 mycelium, (2) or these hyphae may unite together into what are 

 known as strands ; these mycelial strands may be thick or thin. 



