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sport. All efforts to engage in warfare with them were futile, 
for theirs was the upper hand from the first. 
Frequently, in cleared spaces, a charming type of culti- 
vated wildness met the eye. In one such place we came upon 
the “Kangaroo’s foot,” a flower which greatly impressed the 
students—none of whom had seen _ it before—by its grotesque 
beauty and which proved reminiscent of Western Australia to 
Mr. Hamilton, our leader. 
, Time sped away all too swiftly, so that after having ex- 
plored merely the outside fringe of the bush, we were compelled 
to return to the launch, just as the afternoon was closing in 
upon us. 
Kurnell shows much the same characteristics as ‘Long Bay 
and La Perouse bushlands, with the single, but vastly important 
difference, that owing to the ban upon the all too rampant 
vandalism, apparent in the latter places, Kurnell has maintained 
a superior individuality. 
It is well worth making an excursion to appreciate this 
fact. How much more so, if those in authority could be per- 
suaded to grant “permission to pick? for one short day? 
Jean M. Campperi, Hon. Treasurer. 
NOTES ON GONIOZUS ANTIPODUM. . 
By L. Gatuarp. 
The specimens exhibited were bred in captivity from adults 
kept alive through the winter without any artificial heat. All 
stages of the wasp from egg to adult are present. The eggs are 
laid in numbers along the sides of its host, the Codlin moth 
grub. One specimen exhibited showed five young wasp larvae 
with their heads buried in the sides of their host, from which 
they suck the juices. When fully developed they loosen their 
hold and spin a white, silken, oblong cocoon in which to pupate. 
The wasp also attacks the peach-tip moth larva. 
NOTES ON CLERIDAE. 
By W. W. Froacarr, N.S.W., Forest Entomologist. 
The timber boring insects popularly known as “Pin-hole 
borers” and “Powder-post beetles” have a number of enemies 
amongst which are several beetles of the family Cleridae. The 
adult beetles hunt over infested logs and in some cases lay ~ 
their eggs in the bark. The larvae, slender active grubs have 
