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(b) Middle Harbour, Sydney, llth June, 1910. 



Numerous remains of insects ; several small seeds of three kinds. 

 (W.W.F.) Egg capsule of cockroach ; remains of small beetles ; a book 



scorpion. 

 (J.H.M.) A few grass seeds, evidently Panicum, but I do not recognise 



the species; a seed of a leguminous plant, but I do not recognise 



the genus; a seed of a plant that seems to be composite us, with all 



the traces of the pappus gone. 

 <c) Lisarow, N.S.W., 1st May, 1915. 



(E.W.F.) Fragments of insects, unrecognisable. Seeds small ovate, 



yellowish. 

 (W.M.C.) The seeds are (1) Setaria viridis (Pigeon Grass) ; (2) Panicwn 



sp. : (3) Siegesbeckia orientalis, L. 

 <d) Lisarow, N.S.W., 1st May, 1915. 



(E.W.F. ) Fragments of insects, unrecognisable. Seeds (1) small, 



ovate, yellowish ; (2) small, conical, slightly curved, black; (3) small, 



oblongate, brown. 

 (W.M.C.)- The seeds are- (1) Setaria viridis (Pigeon Grass) and Pan*- 



cum sp. ; (2) Siejesbeckia orientalis, L. ; (3) Geranium sp. 

 (e) Mt, Irvine, N.S.W., 5th June, 1915. 



(E.W.F.) Small reddish rugose seeds; small oblongate yellow seeds. 

 (J.H.M.)- The seeds are those of Oxalis corniculata, L. (Sour Sorrel) 



and a native legume (?). 



Sericornis maculata. (M. 586; H. 205.) Spotted Scrub Wren. 

 Port Adelaide, 19th May, 1910. 



A number of very small shells and their fragments ; several small narrow 

 yellowish seeds; some fragments of insects and (?) grubs; some 

 vegetable fragments. 

 (W.W.F.) Cutworms (Agrotis sp.). 



( J.H.M. ) The seeds are grass-seeds, probably a species of Eragrostis. 

 (C. Hedley, Australian Museum) The shells are Assiminca tasmanica, 

 Tenn. Woods. 



Malurus cyaneus. (M. 592.) Blue Wren. 



Flinders Island, Bass Straits, 21st November, 1912. 

 Beetles and numerous insect remains. 



(W.B.G.) Fragments of at least two species of spider ; several portioDS 

 of ants (Formicidce); weevil (Merimnetes sp.?) ; other beetle and 

 insect fragments. 

 Malurus cyanochlamys. (M. 593; H. 117.) Blue Wren. 



(a) Neutral Bay, Sydney, 2nd November, 1911. 

 Fragments- of insects, some metallic. 



(W.W.F.) Fragments of fly (Trypetidw?) and some unrecognisable 

 fragments. 



(b) Ourimbah, 18th November, 1911. 



Kemains of beetles, &c. ; some small kidney-shaped seeds. 



(W.W.F.) Fragments oi beetles ; a small ant (Iridomyrmex sp.) ; 

 fragment of bug's wing, &c. 



(J.H.M.) Rubus sp.? (Rosacew), probably R. rosifolius, a native rasp- 

 berry. 



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