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Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 1978.

Mallee-shrub about 0.5 metres tall x 2 m wide. Bark smooth, light grey. Leaves glossy, dark green, with many island and intersectional oil glands. In full flower (white). Growing among rocks on steep edge of ridge with depauperate Eucalyptus coccifera - E. nitida intergrades, Banksia marginata and other shrubs.

Update:
I found several of these at Cedar Bog again this year. The last one might be Hexatoma brevicornis, so if you have expertise, please D.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172420801
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172420799
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172420798
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175243975

Note: I have photographed this Hexatomini at Cedar Bog in Champaign County, Ohio for at least 17 years. Always in the same area.
I've added two other observations; one from back in 2004.
Links to those observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88273567
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84762884
Here's an observation this year (2022) with better pics of wing venation. Same location.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124010854

On rabbit dung. Identification from ...
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0028825X.2002.9512786

2nd photo is stalk with paving-like structure, and 3rd photo is spherical spores. Last photo is the 'slugs' tranforming into fruitbodies. They are eating a yellow bacterium.

It has dextrinoid spores, not mentioned in the literature, but then people don't often mount myxos in melzers reagent.

Maroon-brown flowers, approximately 60mm across growing among the sphagnum moss and leaf litter on the slope above a treefern grove. The flowers were positioned in the centre of two broad green, veined leaves.
The plants grew as a scattered small colony.