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47. Three different species. 



48. Remains of mice. 



49. Large quantity. 



50. Large quantity fragmentary insects, mostly beetles. 

 51. Remains of mice. 



52. Wattle (Acacia decurrens and data, diveste d of seed coats), hunclrc els of e ucalyptus seed. 



53. As 52. About ha'f of each kind of seed. 



.54. 15 c.c. of seed. Crass mainly; a few legumes, and what appear to be tea -tree seed 

 (Leptospermu m ). 



55. Large quantity of seed, apparently tea-tree, as 54. 



56. Crop very full; much distended with seed, chiefly grass. 



57. A lamellicorn. 



58. Maize. Vegetable tissue and grass also present, with a little black carbonaceous 



matter. 



59. 8-08 grammes crackeel maize. 



60. 4-09 grammes of an unknown seed. 



61. Crop full of seed ; some el isinte grated vegetable matter. 



62. Gravel, charcoal, fragmentary vegetable matter, wattle anel several other kinds of 



seed. 



63. In crop a considerable number of pupa cases, almost certainly Diplera, possibly 



blow-flies. 



64. Gravel anel various seeds unknown. 



65. An example of Helix jervisensis with animal still in shell; fragments of a second. 



Vegetable matter and soil. 



66. Great quantity of scarabs. 



67. Two centipedes. 



68. A Paropsis and a longicorn recognised. Stomach much distended with inscet food. 



69. Calosoma schayeri. 



70. Army -worm moth. 



71. Anaplognathus (cockchafer). 



72. Thynnus, Bembex. 



73. Buprestids. 



74. Three large cockchafer larvae. Unrecognisable animal matter and two hard balls 



covered with furry matter. 



75. A wooel bug, much animal matter, sand, soil. 



76. Inclueled weevils anel scarabs. 



77. A wattle twig, and twigs of a herbaceous plant. 



78. Three centipedes. 



79. Eutilia (large blue -black fly). 



80. Dragon flies. 

 80i. Five bees. 

 81." Bees. 



82. Sixteen bees. 



83. Anaplognathus (cockchafer). 

 83 . Five noctuids. 



84. Also a small egg cocoon with eggs (unknown). 



85. Larvae of grape vine moth. 



86. Larvae of Doratifera. 



87. Ten Doratifera larvse (cup moth). 



88. One julus (millipcele). 



89. 35 cutworm larvae, one hairy larva (unknown), 1 vine moth larva. 



90. 25 hairy larvae (perhaps Teara). 



91. 15 spiny larvae, green with red markings. 



92. Pterygophilus cinctus. 



93. 20 heads of a white spotted larva. 



94. Several larvae like cutworms, but reddish in colour. 



95. Larvae of Doratifera. 



96. Hairy larvae (like Teara), with a number of yellow eggfl. 



97. Five Doratifera (cup moth). 



98. Ten Doratifera. 



99. Entirely house flies. Bird caught in class room. 



100. One grass seed. 



101. And uneletermined insects; some probab'y hemiptera. 



102. Large quantity. 



103. Including weevi's, and a chrysomelid larva possibly the wattle beetle. 



104. Many fragments of insects anel some eggs. 



105. A Hemerobius wing and some eggs. 



