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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. F. Tidswell gave a summary of what is known of Tick- or 

 Texas-fever in cattle, and in illustration of his address he 

 exhibited a comprehensive series of preserved specimens, micro- 

 photographs, and microscopic preparations of Ticks and of the 

 Tick-fever hjematozoon, Pyrosoma higeminum. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited plants in flower of the following species: — 



Stenoglottis longifolia (author?), received from J. Medley Wood, 

 Curator of the Botanic Gardens, Natal, in 1898, It is closely 

 aUied to S. fi/nihriata, Lindl., (figured in Bot. May. t. 5872), but 

 differs from the latter in not having blotches on the leaves, and in 

 its markedly fimbriate labellum whereas that of the plant figured 

 is non-fimbriate. From Natal. 



Phalfenopsis violacea, Teijsm. & Binnend. A dainty little orchid 

 from Sumatra. (See Nichols' Diet. Gard. iii. 93.) 



Qlohha atrosanguinea, Teijsm. & Binnend., (Syn. G: coccinea, 

 Hort. Veitch). An elegant Scitaminaceous plant from Borneo. 

 (See Bot. Mo.g. t. 6626). Received from Veitch. 



Ilymenocallis calathiiium, Nichols' Diet. Gard. ii. 165. 

 Figured as Pancratium in Bot. Mag. t. 1561. From Brazil. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a collection of Diptera of the sub-family 

 Trypetince, commonly known as Fruit- Flies from the damage their 

 their larvje do to ripening fruit, including the American Fruit- 

 maggot, Trypeta pomonella, Walsh ; a new species of the same 

 genus bi'ed from guavas from the New Hebrides; the Queensland 

 Fruit-Fly, Tephritis tryoni, Froggatt ; a new species of the same 

 genus bred from bananas from New Caledonia; and the Mediter- 

 ranean Fruit-Fly, Halterophora capitata, Wiedem., this being the 

 common species about Sydney; larvae and pupjfi were also shown. 



