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For our knowledge of additional Queensland Mesozoic Insects we are 
indebted to tlie zealous researches of Mr. J. H. Simmonds, of Brisbane, who 
has obtained, a small series of decorticated examples, and their impressions, 
from the Ipswich Coal Measures. These include a member of the Coleop- 
terous family Buprestidae, which we have described under the name of 
Mesostigmodera typica, thereby indicating its relation to the recent Slig- 
modera, a widely-distributed and characteristic Australian genus, of which 
many species are exceedingly well marked by the peculiar ornamentation 
of the elytra. The other remains are fragmentary, but, with one exception, 
they appear to he those of Coleoptera also. Two of the elytra we believe to 
be referable to the Ehynchophora ; two others possibly represent the family 
Ilydrophilidm ; whilst the fifth may he a portion of a larva, possibly of one of 
the Lampyridae. The exception above referred to is the impression of the 
abdomen of one of the larger Ilemiptcra. 
The Tertiary insects collected by Mr. C. S. lYilkinson, and by Mr. T. 
W. Edgeworth David during the latter’s survey of the Vegetable Creek Tin- 
field, are from the youngest Tertiary stanniferous lead of the district. They 
are referred to in his valuable work. The Geology of the Vegetable Creek Tin- 
mining Field, New England District.^ Mr. David states that “ impressions 
of fossil Insects liave been found on Bed Hill, near Emmaville, the markings 
being plainly visible in fine brown earthy ironstone, but these belong to the 
latter part of the Tertiary volcanic epoch.” The relation of the leads at 
Vegetable Creek, one to the other, is excellently shown in Section No. 2 of the 
work quoted, the fossils being from the lead penetrated by “ Fox’s Old Shaft.” 
Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen, Professor of Botany in the 
UniA'ersity of Graz, Austria, has described t the plants of Vegetable Creek 
generally as Eocene. As a matter of fact, however, the specimens were col- 
lected from at least two distinct horizons, representing the youngest and 
oldest of the leads. As before stated, the Insect remains were obtained 
from the youngest lead, and may he regarded as of younger Tertiary age, at 
any rate much younger than the plant remains from the oldest lead. 
The following descriptive remarks on the locality of the fossils were 
made by one of the Authors in an Appendix to Baron Ettingshausen’s 
work : § — The leaves obtained at Fox and Partridge’s are from a shallow 
* Mem. Geol. Survey, X. S. Wales (Geol. Series), 1887, Xo. 1 (4to. Sydney, 1887, by Authority), p. 60. 
t “ Contributions to the Tertiary Flora of Australia,” Mem. Geol. Survey X. S. Wale.s (Pal. Series), 1888, 
Xo. 2. 
X See Stratigraphical Xote by E. Etheridge, jun., in Ihiil, p. 182. 
§ Loc. cit., p. 187, 
