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(g) Narrabri, January, 1912. 



Portions of beetles, &c. ; about ten elongated orange-coloured seeds ; 



several oval white ones. 

 (W.W.F.) Eemains of Coleoptera. 



(J.H.M.) Three different seeds were found in this parcel, which I have 

 marked A, B, C. B. consisted of Carduus lanceolatus, Linn. (Com- 

 positce). 

 (h) Willbriggie, N.S.W., 7th October, 1912. 



Several elongated orange seeds; one small orange seed; occasional 



minute fragments of insects. 

 (i) Belaringar, N.S.W., 20th March, 1915. 



(E.W.F.) Seeds, (1) Small, elongate, light brown; (2) Minute, round, 



black or dark brown. 

 Minute insect fragments. 

 Neositta chrysoptera. (M. 694 ; F. 286.) Orange-winged Tree-runner. 



(a) Milson Island, Hawkesbury Kiver, June, 1912 (7.30 a.m.). 

 Fragments of beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Eemains of spider and a very small brown beetle. 



(b) Gunnedah, February, 1911. 

 Fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Eemains of beetles (Coleoptera) ; larva of moth. 



Neositta leucocephala. (M. 695; H. 287.) White-headed Tree-runner. 

 Eidsvold, Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 

 Fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Small grasshopper ; remains of froghoppers (Hornoptera) ; 

 a few remains of beetles. 



Neositta pileata. (M. 697; H. 289.) Black-capped Tree-runner. 



(a) Murray Flats, S.A. 

 Small beetles ; a grub, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Small leaf-hoppers, Cercopidce (Homoptera); a few beetle 

 remains among them one click beetle, mostly taken under bark. 



(b) Murray Flats, S.A. 

 Small beetles, grub, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Click beetle, ants, froghoppers (FulgoridcB), small heterom- 



erous* beetle all probably taken on tree-trunk. 

 Climacteris picumna. (M. 704; H. 281.) White-throated Tree-creeper. 



(a) Narrabeen, 26th March, 1910. 



Smell* of ants; fragments of insects; (?) ants' " eggs." 

 (W.W.F.) Chief food remains are ants of several species, with a few 

 remains of elytra of small beetles ; I see no ant eggs (larvae?) 



(b) Mount Lofty, Adelaide, 17th May, 1910. 



Large portions of several beetles and numerous fragments of insects. 

 (W.W.F.) Eemains of one of the ground weevils. 



(c) Bowral, April, 1910. 

 Numerous remains of beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Ants and wing covers of small ground beetles. 



(d) Tent Hill, Northern New South Wales, 16th December, 1910. 

 Portions of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Pupa of cicada, small moths, and remains of bark-haunt' ng 

 beetles. 



