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MISCELLA.NEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS, 



Parasite op the Stick-case Moth (Entometa ignohilis). 

 Mr. Tepper records the larva of a large fly, Tachina sp., de- 

 structive to the caterpillars of this moth. 



On the Protracted Pupation op Anther.ea Helen^e. 

 A female example of this large moth was bred by Mr. Tepper 

 from a caterpillar, which did not emerge from its cocoon till after 

 the lapse of 2 years 8 months and 25 days. 



Diprotodon-Remains. 

 A large skull, one shoulder-blade, one axis, two cervical verte- 

 brae, one nearly complete rib-bone and a portion of the sternum 

 have been added to the Public Museum, exhumed under the 

 direction of Mr. Zietz from a depth of 12 feet below the surface 

 in loam and gravel in the eroded bed of a tributary of the Baldina 

 Oreek on the edge of the Eastern Plain. 



FORAMINIFERA OP THE MUDDY CrEEK-BeDS. 



Mr. W. Howchin reports the following species of PolystomeUa 

 inadvertently omitted from his paper (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 

 vol. xii., p. 16.) : — 



P. striato-jounctata, F. v. M. Upper bed, rare. 



P. suhnodosa, Munster. Upper bed, very common. 



P. G'ispa, Linn. Upper bed, rather scarce. 



Poisonous Properties op Euphoria eremophila. 



Although this spurge plant has been previously reported as 

 occurring in the Gawler Ranges, I have only met with three 

 plants of it during the past two years at this particular place 

 (Caroona, Lake Gilles). It has not previously been gathered 

 here. The plant is very familiar to me, as I have seen much of 

 it in Queensland and the northern parts of New South Wales. 

 As W. P. M. Bailey, in his work on the Queensland flora, refers 

 to this plant, and writes of it that it is reported to be poisonous 

 to animals, it may be interesting if I refer to the symptoms of 



