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(ax) Gunnedah, N.S.W., September, 1914 (juvenile). 



(E.W.F.) Insect remains : Chiefly coleopterous fragments. 



(ay) Uralla, May-June, 1915. 



(W.W.F.) Large quantity of green clover; fourteen whole grains of 

 wheat and partly digested remains of others; remains of young 

 wheat. Several heads of weevils. 



Fringella chloris. Greenfinch. 



Narrabeen, New South Wales, 26th March, 1910. 

 Some small seeds of two kinds; some remains of black seeds. 



ReptiUa. 



Amphibolurus barbatus. Frill Lizard. 

 Emmaville. 



Large portions of hairy grubs, beetles, &c. ; part of a centipede (Australian 

 Museum Scolopendra morsitans); a grass-seed, a triangular seed, 

 some fragments (?) seeds, and two small leaves. 



(E.M.) " Grass-seed." This is not grass-seed, but the calyx with stem 

 and ovary and part of style of a flower, which appears to be one of 

 the Lobeliacece. The two leaves and seed I cannot identify. 



Varanus varius. Monitor " Goanna." 

 Dubbo, September, 1911. 



Numerous cockroaches ; mass of rabbits' hairs (microscopically identified). 

 (W.W.F.) Fragments of cockroaches ; several pupae of Cyclorrhaphoua 

 Dipt era. 



Lygosoma (Leiolepisma) entrecasteauxii. Skink. 

 Flinders Island, Bass Straits, 21st November, 1912. 

 A grub ; a chrysalis ; part of a spider (?) ; insects' remains (?). 

 (W.B.G.) Wireworm larva (Elateridce) \ moth pupa; two small species 

 of spiders. 



Amphibians. 

 Hyla ewingii, D. & B. Frog. 



Flinders Island, Bass Straits, 22nd November, 1912. 

 Several large beetles. 



(W.B.G.) Fragments of beetles, including Perperus sp. (CurculionidcB\ 

 and black Adelium sp. (Tenebrionidce). 



