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(s) Wagga Experiment Farm (vicinity of poultry yards), 19th August, 1914. 

 (E.W.F.) Nil, except a long thin filament (? vegetable). 

 (W.W.F.) Vegetable matter ; portion of moth wing. 



(t) Wagga Experiment Farm (vicinity of poultry yards), 19th .August, 1914. 

 (E.W.F.) Larval remains; thick larvae and thin; other insect frag- 

 ments Coleoptera and Hemiptera. 

 (W.W.F.) Cutworms. 



(u) Wagga Experiment Farm (vicinity of poultry yards), 19th August, 1914- 

 (E.W.F.) Numerous small whitish chitinous heads, probably of termites ; 



remains of ant ; remains of beetle. 

 (W.W.F.) Much digested great number of heads of small caterpillars. 



(v) Wagga Experiment Farm (vicinity of poultry yards), 19th August, 1914. 

 (E.W.F.) Thick larvae. 



(W.W.F) Cutworms ; vegetable matter ; elytra of small ground 

 beetle. 



v(w) Wagga Experiment Farm (vicinity of poultry yards), 19th August, 1914. 

 (E.W.F.) Thick larvae; thin larval skins. 

 (W.W.F.) Cutworms ; several small moths. 



(x) Wagga Experiment Farm (vicinity of poultry yards), 19th August, 1914 

 (E.W.F.) Thick larvae. 

 (W.W.F.) Cutworms. 



(y) Wagga Experiment Farm (vicinity of poultry yards), 19th August, 1914. 

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

 (W.W.F.) Cutworms ; remains of carab beetle. 



(z) Wagga Experiment Farm, 5th September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Thick larval skins (Lepidoptera) ; weevil (Cubicorrhynchus ? 



maculatus- Amy derides] . 

 (W.W.F.) Cutworms. 



{aa) Wagga Experiment Farm (eastern end No. 2 grazing paddock), 5th 



September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Thin long larval skins; remains of ants; elytra of beetles. 

 -(W.W.F.) Cutworms; remains of winged ants. 



(ab) Cooma, September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Fragments of insects, including portions of elytra of ter.e- 

 brionid beetle (Chalcopterus sp.). 



<ac) Cooma, 16th September, 1914. 



(E.W.F.) Fragments of insects; portion of tenebrionid beetle (Chal* 

 copterus sp.). 



(ad) Salisbury Court, Uralla, 9th February, 1914 (shot in morning). 

 (W.W.F.) Four small locusts (grasshoppers); six small caterpillars; 

 wing case of heteromerous beetle; jaws of mole cricket; a green 

 grasshopper. 



(ae) Salisbury Court, Uralla, 9th February, 1914 (shot in morning). 



(W.W.F.) One grain of wheat ; remains of small ground beetles (Caret* 

 bidce and Heteromera) ; two small grass caterpillars. 



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