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-Jan. 81, 1911. The Queensland Naturalist. 
REPORT ON POND LIFE. 
By W. R. Colledge. 
The Creek at Newmarket yielded comparatively 
few Rotifers. The curiously sculptured form of Dino- 
charis tetractis, with its long diverging toes, was seen. 
Others were : Mastigocerca carinata, with its long rat- 
like tail and glassy dorsal shield ; Monostyla bulla, with 
Its single style and ovate body ; Synchceta ovalis and its 
’larger relative, S. stylata, careering through the water with 
its kite-like figure and the SAviftness of a motor car ; and 
little delicate-looking Metopidia acuminatis. digging into 
the vegetable debris with their frontal pickaxes. The 
■ ever present Aculias, and Polyarthra platypteras, armed 
with their twelve serrated swords, Avere the only other 
kinds observed. Larvae of the May Fly AAere present. 
■Caddis larvae, having cut hollo av grass stems into suitable 
lengths and camped in these moveable huts, Avere sur- 
prised at the change from the stones of the stream to the 
V environment of a bottle. Among the Entomostraca Avere 
noted : Diaptomas castor, stretching its tw^enty-six jointed 
.antennae at right angles to the body ; Macrothrix triserialis, 
-distinguished by its delicate setae; and Cyclops quadri- 
cornis of both sexes, the gentler one fulfilling her maternal 
duties by carrying a couple of egg sacs slung over the 
terminal segments of the body. Very few mosquitoes 
Avere found. One larva, AA'ith an extraordinary long anal 
■ Spiracle and eyes, the separate facets of AA'hich Avere much 
more highly developed than in most species of Gulex 
darvce, and one pupa Avere captured: these belonged to 
Culex annulirostris. 
NOTES ON FUNGUS PARASITES FROM NEW- 
MARKET. 
By Henry Tryon. 
The very interesting flora of the Three Mile Scrub 
area, elucidated during the visit of the Field Naturalists’ 
■Club to NeAvmarket, and, as described in J. Wedd’s paper, 
Avas found to include — in addition to the higher plants 
■ enumerated therein— most noteAVorthy exponents also of 
.the more loAvIy organised groups, e,g., the Fungi ; but 
it suffices at present to refer to the five kinds of this class 
.that are exhibited, insomuch as they illustrate as many 
forms of relationship betAveen parasite and host in plant 
-life : — 
i. PoAvdery MildeAv of Acacia (Erysiphacese). Here 
Ave have the foliage of A. aulacocarpa — especially the younger 
