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(c) Coonabarabran, 29th September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains, mostly fragmentary and unrecognisable; 

 two pupae (? Diptera). 



(d) Uralla, May-June, 1915. 



(W.W.F.) Moth caterpillar; remains of ants in large numbers Bulldog 

 Ant (Myrmecia sp.), Camponotus sp. ; remains of Coleoptera and 

 jaws of Paropsis beetle. 

 Collyriocichla superciliosa. (M. 639.) 



(a) Pascoe Kiver, N.Q., 12th August, 1913. 

 (E.W.F.) Insect remains elytra of beetle. 



(b) Claudie Kiver, N.Q., 26th September, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains head of weevil. One seed capsule. 



(c) Claudie Kiver, N.Q., 29th September, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Chitinous jaws (? Orthopterous) ; heads and 

 portions of elytra of Hemiptera. Small bones, ? lizard. Small seed 

 capsule. 



(d) Claudie Kiver, N.Q., 23rd October, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Elytra of beetles (including chrysomelid 

 beetle); head of weevil; insect egg cases. 



(e) Claudie Kiver, N.Q., 23rd October, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Remains of insects ; portions of beetles ; insect egg case. 



(?) Seeds Whitish bodies in semi-gelatinous matrix. 

 Orallina picata. (M. 646 ; H. 67.) Magpie Lark. 



(a) Eidsvold, Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 



Several small beetles and remains of insects ; some small yellow grass-like 



seeds; a small brown one; a larger brown one. 

 (W.W.F.) Small weevils; remains of spiders; small lepidopterous 



larvae ; other small beetles. I have, on the Murray, watched a 



peewit (magpie lark) bring fourteen large grasshoppers (plague 



locusts) to her nestlings in half an hour. 

 (J.H.M.) Seeds of Eriochloa polystachya, H.B. and K. (a grass allied to 



Panicum) ; seeds of Setaria (or perhaps Panicum) ; the large brown 



seed-like body seems to be a cocoon it is hollow, and has a 



circular large hole on one end. 



(b) Sydney, 7th June, 1909. 



Some brown pieces of maize seed; two seeds of wheat; one small fly; 



several small beetles, almost complete; many fragments of insects 

 (W.W.F.) Fragments of wheat and maize ; remains of beetles and small 



flies ; green-head ant. 



(c) Kowena, near Collarenebri, November, 1910. 

 Small beetles and portions of other insects. 



(W.W.F.) Plague locusts (Chortoicetes termini/era) ; ground-feeding 

 beetles. 



(d) Queensland. 



Three kinds of seeds (1) Narrow black, (2) rounded black, (3) oval 

 yellow; portion of a grasshopper and other insects. 



(E.M.)-(l) Insect egg cases; (2) a legume; (3) grass, Setaria, probably 

 S. glauca (3 mm. long). 



(W.W.F.) Weevil and other beetles; a long-horned grasshopper. 



(e) Canowindra, February, 1915. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of beetles and small ants, much broken- up; cater- 

 pillar ; carab beetle ; grain of wheat. 



