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some indigenous shrubs and trees, particularly Acacia decurrens, 

 extensive groves of which I had seen absolutely denuded of 

 leaf. Two years before it committed serious depredations 

 about Mount G-raham. D. splendens has not hitherto been 

 recorded for South Australia, and appears to reach its western 

 limit in the South-East of this colony." — E. Tate. 



" This little pest is a perfect terror to the fruit-growers in 

 this colony, and is seen in countless thousands. I have seen 

 them covering every living part of Leptospermum bushes for 

 miles in extent. When they alight they make short work of 

 all green leaves, cherries and plums being specially singled out 

 for their attention. In our colony the means generally adopted 

 for its extirpation are to light fires near where they are 

 thickest, and I am pretty certain that the larvae feed on the 

 roots of Ltptospermum scoparimn or L. Icemgatwn. Here these 

 insects make their appearance about every three years." — Ex- 

 tract from letter by Charles Erench, Botanic G-ardens, Mel- 

 bourne. 



" SpH(EEOPTEEirs sp. comcs very close to the genus Otiorhyn- 

 cJius of Europe, and will, I think, fit in to the genus Sphcerop- 

 terus of Gruerin, which represents OtiorJiynchus in this part of 

 the world ; but the species is quite new to me." — W. Macleay. 



" This weevil was taken in December upon and beneath 

 orange trees in the garden of Mr. G. Laughton, Walkerville, 

 where it had made sad havoc among the trees named and 

 others. It seems to be a different species from the one in- 

 festing the almond." — B. Tate. 



"LAMPEorA VAEiAifs, Burmeister ; like all of the genus, it is 

 a leaf -eater, but I never before heard of its being destructive." 

 — W. Macleay. 



" The specimens upon which the above determination was 

 founded were sent by Mr. Love, Eorester, "Wirrabara Eorest 

 Beserve, with the note that it had caused some damage to the 

 young forest growth during the summer of 1882." — B. Tate. 



List of Maein^e Mollusca, Eottnest, Eeeemantle. 

 Named by Professor R. Tate. 



A small parcel of shell-sand forwarded by M. A. H. Cour- 

 derot de Malange has furnished, as far as the condition of the 

 specimens will admit of satisfactory identification, the following 

 species, which are for the most part known only in South Aus- 

 tralian waters : — 



Clathurella rufozonata, Angas. 



Clathurella bicolor, Angas. 



Marginella sagittata. Hinds. 



Marginella albida, Tate. 



Bittium tenue, Sow. 



