2 
On these remains Mr. Moore made the following remarks ; — “ The 
first which attracted my attention was a small, black, shining, highly orna- 
mented elytron of a beetle, partly concealed in the matrix . . . Ten other 
insects were afterwards obtained from the same block. The most abundant 
belong to the Coleoptera, both double and single elytra being 23resent, some 
of them having the 2 >rinctate striae well preserved ; there are single specimens 
which may belong to Cyphon, and also a minute annulose body which may 
be a larva”* * * § In the explanation of the plate accompanying his paper, Mr. 
Moore also recorded a larva, “probably of Oxytelus” an insect “ 
bably allied to Cydnus” 
These fossils were referred to by Mr. S. H. Scudder in Zittel’s 
Sandbucli der Fcdeontologie. He remarked that the Cydnus was the fifth 
Tertiary species known, the others occurring at (Eningen, Aix, and in the 
IVyoming Territory.! The family (Cydnida3) was thus tolerably abundant, 
varied, and wides 2 >read during Tertiary times. The remains of Cyphon, 
representing the family Dascyllidse, have also been met with in the Prussian 
Amber deposits. | Oxyteliis, a genus of Staph ylinidoe, is known from the 
Tertiary of (Eningen and TJtah,§ and the larva so named by Moore, Mr. 
Scudder believes to be correctly identified. |1 Touching Moore’s other figures, 
Avc Avonld remark that his PI. XVIII, Pig. 7-9, arc certainly Ebynchophora, 
perhaj^s Amycterida?, a family characteristic of the recent fauna of Australia. 
Pig. 2 of the same j)late may ^^ossibly be a Lagria, but the remaining figures 
are undeterminable. 
The single Mesozoic s^iecies from Xew South M^ales, hereinafter 
described as Cicada? Loioei, was obtained by Mr. Cullen, with a fine collection 
of fish and plant remains, from near the Talbragar Eiver, about twenty miles 
north of Home Eule Townsliip, between Mudgee and Gulgong. The exact 
2 >osition is marked bythe southern boundary of Boyce’s Selection, Xo. 14, Parish 
of Bligh, County Bligh, and the deposit was originally discovered by Mr. Arthur 
Lowe, of IVilbertree, Mudgee, by whom the counterpart of the specimen has 
been kindly lent. Mr. W. Anderson, Geological Surveyor, who has surveyed 
the locality, thus writes of the beds exposed there “ The shales in which 
* Loc. cit., p. 263. 
t Ibid, II Band, p. 786. 
t Loc. cit., p. 798. 
§ Loc. cit., p. 801. 
II See also Mr. Sciidder’s article — “Systematic Eeriew of our Present Knowledge of Fossil Insects, &c.” 
BiJl. U.S. Geol. Survey, 1886, V, No. 31, pp. 64, 78, and 80. 
IT Eec. Geol. Survey N. S. Wales, 1889, I, Pt. 2, p, 138. 
