64 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
May, 1924 
^‘Naturalist/’ Vol. III., No. 6, p. 114, Note No. 16, “Some 
City Moths.”) 
By R. Higgins. — Beetles, species of Mastoehilus and 
Anlaeocyclus in family Passaliduo, of Bncare. floecosnm 
and Asphalus striatus in Tenebrlonidae, and Oides f'Ador- 
ium) fryii, a Galleriad of phytophagous habits. 
In Hemiptera he also brought forward Tjygaeus 
hospes, a chinch bug of destructive habits to various cul- 
tivated plants, and in Orthoptera, a small cockroach, 
probably young of some much larger insect in adult form. 
To these must be added the large ground carab known as 
Trichosternus renardi. All these from Wolvi in the Noosa 
district. The native bee, Trigona carbonaria 8m., with 
comb of waxy cells and young bees just emerging. A very 
interesting exhibit. Bee identified from Queensland 
Museum collection. 
By J. C. Smith.— A small specimen of Belostoma in- 
dica, the giant water bug or fish killer (see Froggatt in 
Australian Insects). It is sometimes quite common about 
the street electric lights, and should be handled carefully, 
as its stout shari) beak stings badl}'. 
By R. midge. — (1) Giant earwig from National Park, 
Macplierson Range. Anisolabis colossea — largest speci- 
men (of 2) 65 mm. dried, ^somewhat larger when alive, 
as they have shrunk considerably. Cut out of rotten tree 
trunks, where it probably lives on the numerous coleop- 
terous larvae and pupae. Seems quite harmless despite 
its formidable appearance. 
(2) The large apterous cockroach, Panestbia tryoni, 
found in rotten logs, but whether it feeds on the decayed 
substance of the wood, or the living and dead larvae of 
other insects is at present not at all clear, probably om- 
nivorous. 
(3) Charagia splendens (fetnale), and its burrow 
in stem. 
Mr. R. L. Higgins gave a few notes on the 
birds of the Wolvi district. Dr. Shaw exhibited a rare 
and very large burrowing cockroach (Geoscapheiis crenu- 
latus, Shaw, ms.) from the Noosa district. Mrs. W. M. 
Mayo exhibited a number of sponges from Moreton Bay. 
Mrs. Smith exhibited a specimen of the giant maiden hair 
of the Queensland scrubs (Adiantum formosum), which 
bad been in a A^ase for over two years without dropping 
a single pinnule. She also showed a specimen of the 
