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Artamus tenebrosus. (M. 634 ; H. 398.) Wood-swallow, 

 (a) Narrabeen, N.S.W., 26th March, 1910. 



Remains of beetles and other insects ; some small seeds. 



(W.W.F.) Elytra and legs of small beetles : heads and remains of small 



bees ; one small fly ; bee remains most abundant. 

 (J.H.M.) Cladium sp. (Cyperacece), probably C. mariscus, R.Br. a 



tall coast plant producing seeds in abundance, 

 (b) Cobar, September, 1911. 



Numerous portions of insects bugs, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Wings of Thynnidce and of DiyCera; numerous portions of 



small plant or shield bugs (Pentatomidce Dictyotus sp.). 

 <(c) Cobar, September, 1911. 

 Numerous portions of insects. 



tW.W.F.) Wings of Thynnidce (wasps) ; wings of flies (Diptera) ; frag- 

 ments of plant bugs (PenlatomidceDictyoius sp.) ; portions of 

 larva: . 



j(d) Eidsvold, Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 

 Numerous remains of small beetles. 



(W.W.F.) These beetles are all chrysomelid beetles of the genus Paropsis. 

 <(e) Milson Island, Hawkesbury Kiver, 16th October, 1912. 

 Full of portions of insects, amongst them a moth. 

 (W.B.G.) Noctuid moth, resembling Agrotis? ; portions of wasp 



(Hymenoptera). 

 (f) Upper Manilla, N.S.W. September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Fragments of beetles and Hymenoptera; green blow-fly; 



larva. 



(W.W.F.) Winged ants, syrphid fly and cutworms. 

 <g) Bibbenluke, N.S.W. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Coleoptera, Creophilus erythrocephalus 



(Staphylinidce) ; elytron of water beetle (Hydrophilidce). 

 <h) Canowindra, February, 1915. 



(W.W.F.) Kemains of blow-flies (Calliphora sp.) ; a small fossorial wasp, 

 (i) Mannum, South Australia, 26th November, 1913. 

 Fledgling, just out of nest. 

 (E.W.F.) Insect remains Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, one wasp 



almost complete. 



(j) Coonabarabran, 29th September, 1914. 

 (E.W.F.) Several wasps (Hymenoptera). 



tCollyriocichla harmonica. (M. 636; H. 68.) Grey Shrike-Thrush, 

 (a) Sydney, 7th June, 1909. 

 Elytra, &c., of several insects. 



(W.W.F.) Chrysomelid beetles; remains of grasshopper. 

 <b) Hawkesbury River, 26th October, 1909. 



A large green- with-gold-spots grub, 1 inch long ; portion of a grasshopper 

 (carapaces) ; legs, &c., of several large beetles; several small pale blue 

 eggs. 



(W.W.F.) Caterpillar of large Hawk-moth (Ccequosa triangularis) ; 

 Banksia moth (Danima banksicv) ; looper caterpillar ; beetles Elater 

 sp., AUecula sp., and other undeterminable species ; remains of 

 grasshopper or locust. 



