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FURTHER MOSQUITO RECORDS FROM THE 
TEWANTIN DISTRICT 
Elizabeth N. Marks 
A previous paper (1955, Qd. Nat. 15 (3)) stated that 30 species of 
mosquitoes were known from the Tewantin district, but listed 29 names. 
The omission was Anopheles meraukensis, taken biting at night at Boreen 
Point in April, 1954. A species of the Culex fraudatrix group, given as a 
new record from grassy pools at Boreen Point, has since been found to be 
Culex sp. near cylindncus/ already known from Noosa. Collections made 
in the vicinity of Noosa in mid-March, 1 956, have added three species 
to the known fauna. Anopheles atratipes was taken biting on a heath flat. 
In a patch of rain-forest, the large predacious larvae of the ^'elephant 
mosquito," Megarhinus specaosus, were collected from treeholes, and a 
femole of Aedes (Chaetocruiomyia) spinosipes was taken biting. The sub- 
genus Chaetocruiomyia, which is confined to Australia, contains half a 
dozen species. The breeding places have never been discovered, and the 
larvae remain unknown. Judging by related subgenera, one might expect 
them to breed in treeholes or plant axils rather than ground pools, but 
repeated searches have failed to reveal their larvae in these sites. A. 
spinosipes can be recognised as a small mosquito of thick-set appearance 
(due to its short stout legs), with striking white scaling on the scutum. 
Males have never been collected. Any area where this species is taken 
biting is well worth a thorough search for its breeding places. 
A MOREL FROM QUEENSLAND 
A. B. Cribb 
During February, 1956, about fifteen specimens of morel, one of the 
Ascomycetous fungi were found growing from the cut bank of a roadway 
near Binnaburra Lodge at the edge of the Lamington National Park. The 
largest was six inches tali, with the pale yellow-brown cap marked by 
thin, sharp-edged ridges into shallow reticulations up to l/3rd inch in 
diameter. The plants appear to agree with the description given by Seaver 
(1928, The North American Cup Fungi. Operculates.) of Morchella 
crassipes (Vent.) Pers., a species not previously recorded from Queensland. 
In Europe and North America, species of morel are often found In 
abundance and are highly regorded as food. In Queensland, these fungi 
seem to be comparatively rare, so that little is known of their palatability. 
Four of the specimens collected were stewed in milk, and eaten without 
ill-effect, but also without great enjoyment, the flavour being very mild. 
EATING HABIT OF A RING-TAILED POSSUM 
Joan W. Cribb 
One evening early in October, the writer investigated with a torch 
the noise heard in a mango tree in a Brisbane garden. The culprit was 
a pretty specimen of the South-eastern or Common Ring-tail Possum. It 
was not apparently much upset by the light of the torch, but continued 
with what it had been doing, although it turned its head away from the 
light. The possum was sitting on a branch of the tree, the prehensile tail 
grasping another small branch, and was picking off small sprigs of flowers 
with its forepaws and eating them, biting pieces off the sprig in its paw 
much as a human eats a banana. 
