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(e) Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles, &c. ; a few (?) lerp scales. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of ants and some wings of bees. 



(f) Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles; a few (?) lerp scales. 



(W.W.F.) Beetle remains more plentiful, also ant remains. 



(g) Queensland. 

 Fragments of insects. 



(h) Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Small beetle and other ant remains ; wings of Neuroptera. 

 (i) Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Beetle and ant remains, 

 (j) Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles, &c. 



(W.W.F.) Chiefly remains of small beetles, 

 (k) Queensland. 



Fragments of beetles. 



(W.AV.F.) Remains of beetles and flies. 

 (1) Wellington, N.S.W., November, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains fragments of insects, portions of chrysomelid 



beetle, 

 (m) Wellington, N.S.W., November, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains portions of beetles, otherwise unrecog- 

 nisable. 

 (n) Molong, N.S.W. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains fragments of weevils (QurculionidcB). 



Ptilotis chrusotis. (M. 770; H. 329.) Yellow-eared Honey-eater. 



(a) Ourimbah, 18th November, 1911. 



Stomach dyed purple ; small seeds (? fig) ; part of ladybird. 

 (W.W.F.) Apparently portion of ladybird's (Leis) elytra. 

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

 berry. 



(b) Sydney District. 



One blue berry ; two Solanum nigrum fruits. 



(J.H.M.) Elceecarpus sp. (Tiliacece) seeds; Solanum nigrum, Linn. 

 (SolanacecB). 



(c) Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, 12th June, 1909. 

 A fleshy purple fruit. 



(J.H.M.) Fruit of Phytolacca decandra, Linn. (Red-ink Plant). 



(d) Hawkesbury River, 20th December, 1909. 



Some fragments of insects; a number of small kidney-shaped seeds, 



sculptured with pits. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of Coleoptera. Are not the seeds those of trefoil 



clover ? 



(e) Hawkesbury River, December, 1909. 



Some fragments of insects; some small kidney-shaped seeds, reddish 



brown, in a reddish brown matrix. 



, (W.W.F.) Remains of two spiders; several ants; the head and broken 

 elytra of small beetle. 



