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(d) Monarto South, South Australia, Jul} r , 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains Fragments of beetles ; portions of Hymenop- 



tera. 



Ptilotis plumula. (M. 787 ; H. 349.) Yellow-fronted (Plumed) Honey-eater. 

 Perth, September, 1909. 



Some fragments of insects and case of small beetle. 

 (W.W.F.) Also remains of spider. 



Ptilotis penicillata. (M. 791 ; H. 346.) White-plumed Honey-eater. 



(a) Murray Flats, S.A. 

 Minute fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Very minute insect fragments ; ants and Homoptera. 



(b) Orange, N.S.W., 13th July, 1909. 

 Numerous fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Insects' remains; nothing distinctive except fragments of 

 beetles. 



(c) Near Morgan, South Australia, 29th November, 1913. 

 (E.W.F.) Insect remains Probably hymenopterous. 



(d) Near Morgan, South Australia, 29th November, 1913. 



(E.W.F.) Numerous insect remains, mostly unrecognisable; remains 

 of three wasps. 



(e) Overland Corner, South Australia, 2nd December, 1913. 

 (E.W.F.) Insect remains Portion of weevil, heads of Hemiptera. 



(f) Canowindra, February, 1915. 



(W.W.F.) Small green shield plant bugs like Cuspicona sp. ; a few ant 

 , and beetle remains. 



(g) Canowindra, February, 1915. 



(W.W.F.) Four specimens of Devil's Coach-horse beetles (Creophilus 

 erythrocephalus) ; three ants (Iridomyrmex gratiosa) ; remains of two 

 plant bugs; also beetles and ants. 

 Meliornis pyrrhoptera. (M. 797 ; H. 353.) Crescent Honey-eater. 



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

 A few small fragments of insects. 



(W.W.F.) Nothing definite; a few fragments of the wing covers of 

 beetles. 



(b) Mount Lofty Kange, Adelaide, 23rd May, 1910. 



A few small fragments- of insects ; some minute fragments of green vege- 

 table matter. 

 (W.W.F.) Remains of beetles. 



(c) Adelaide, South Australia. 

 Fragments of insects. 

 (W.W.F.) Chiefly dipterous remains. 



(d) Flinders Island, Bass Straits, November, 1912. 

 (E.W.F.) Insect remains; unrecognisable. 



Meliornis novce-hollandioB. (M. 799 ; H. 354.) New Holland Honey-eater. 



(a) Sydney, 24th April, 1909. 



(W.W.F.) Remains of two flies (Diptera) appear to have been SyrpUda. 



(b) Sydney, 2nd August, 1909. 



Wings and part of body of large fly (?) ; some other remains of insects. 

 (W.W.F.) Chiefly remains of various species of flies. 



