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lead forming a part of the newer series of leads between the Rose Valley and 
the Red Hill, two miles from Emmaville. The matrix is a shaly-ironstone, 
reposing in an old valley on the denuded sides of the older and newer basalt, 
perhaps even entirely on the former. The depth of sinking varied from 
thirty to fifty feet, the strata passed through being a mixture of volcanic 
dust, clay, and sand. The plant remains were accompanied by those of 
insects, some of the specimens being in a fair state of preservation.” The 
flora of this deposit is as follows : — 
Taxinem Ginkgocladus australiensis, Ett. 
3Iyricece Myrica Konincki, Ett. 
Betulacece Alnus Maccoyi, Ett. 
MonimiacecB Hedycarya Wickhami, Ett. 
LaurinecR Laurus australiensis, Ett. 
Eroteacece Lomatia Finnisii, Ett. 
„ Goyderi, Ett. 
31yrsine(B Myrsine Stokesii, Ett. 
Sapmdace(B Sapindus Gossei, Ett. 
CelastrinecR Elseodendron subdegener, Ett. 
lUcinece Ilex macleayana, Ett. 
Eiosmece Boronia Harrisii, Ett. 
„ Hookeri, Ett. 
3Iyrtacece Eucalyptus Mitchelli, Ett. 
Callistemophyllum Hackii, Ett. 
,, Swindeni, Ett. 
W e are not aware that any other notices of Australian Eossil Insects 
have appeared, with the exception of a record by Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, 
Government Geologist, who, in exhibiting specimens at a meeting of the 
Linnean Society of New South Wales,* stated that they were “ found in the 
tin-bearing Tertiary deep leads near Vegetable Creek, New England,” and 
that “ the sj)ecimens show the impressions of larvae and pupae of Ephemera, 
or May-fly.” This record has not been overlooked in Mr. S. H. Scudder’s 
“Review of Eossil Insects,” as it is there mentioned that “Wilkinson has 
also found a species [of Ephemera^ in Australia.”! These Vegetable Creek 
Insects, it may be added, are a portion of the material here dealt with. 
In addition to tliose about to be described, we have observed what 
Ave believe to be the remains of an aculeate hymenopteron, and a beetle with 
striated elytra, but the fossils are much too indefinite for description. 
* Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1883, VIII, p. 398. 
t Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, 1886, V, No. 31, p. 54. 
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