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'' All the lerp-scales are fabricated by the larvae and pupa; from the excess of sap 
or juice sucked up through their sharp bills from the food-plant. This is ejected in 
small globules from the anus, but it is quite different from the excrement. It is another 
form of honey-dew, which when drawn out into fine threads by the feet and spun into 
the net-like sugar lerps, solidifies and hardens in the sun." 
10. J. G. 0. Tepper. ' Remarks on the Manna or Lerp insect of South Australia." 
Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zoology), xvii, p. 109 (1883). A general account of the formation of 
Lerp, and its formation in South Australia. 
He speaks of it on E. leucoxylon and E. gracilis. He further says E. odorata and 
E. oleosa yield " solid manna." Mueller (" Eucalyptographia," under E. viminalis) 
quotes him as finding lerp on E. uncinata. 
11. J. J. Fletcher and C. T. Musson have raised the question (Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., xliii, 226) as to whether the abundance of Lerp Manna at certain seasons 
indicates the presence of some form of sugar in the sap likely to be a source of nutriment 
to parasitic microbes. 
12. Mr. W. F. Blakely has shown me a specimen of E. citriodora (cultivated, of 
course) at Brookland Park, Hawkesbury River, with Lerp insects thereon. 
COLEOPTERA. 
(Beetles.) 
1. E. corymbosa Sm. Mueller (" Eucalyptographia ") quotes the Rev. Canon 
King (then of Sydney) as having noticed Melitose manna to a small extent on the leaves 
of E. corymbosa when pierced by a beetle (Anoplognathus cereus). I cannot trace the 
original statement ; perhaps it gives additional information. 
2. E. terminates F.v.M. The following refers to Flinders and Mitchell Rivers, 
North Queensland. 
Manna is procured from the leaves and small branches by being gathered and laid on pieces of bark, 
when the particles of sugar or gum fall off, or are scraped off with mussel-shells into a kooliman (bowl) 
or the leaves when covered with the white exudation are pounded together with a stone, and roasted in the 
ashes. Sometimes the sugary particles arc gathered as they fall from the trees. After the rainy season 
this food is said to be abundant. (E. Palmer, in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xvii, 98 (1883). ) 
3. E. eximia Schauer. Dr. J. B. Cleland told me that he had seen a small quantity 
of manna on the leaves of this tree near the Hawkesbury River, N.S.W. 
4. " Mr. E. P. Ramsay, late Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney, is of 
opinion that boring coleopterous insects may be active in causing the extrusion of 
Melitose. He saw it occasionally in large stained lumps, which would remind (one) of the 
saccharine secretions on the stem of Myoporum platycarpum " (Mueller). See also 
notes on E. punc ata, above. 
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