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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Pei-cv E. Williams exhibited the stalked and ribbed 

 cocoon of Lewin's Case-Moth [Clania lewinii, Westw., fam. 

 Psychid(p) found on an Angophora, to the ribbed capsules of 

 which the cocoon bears in many respects a striking resemblance. 



Mr. AV. W. Froggatt showed specimens of similar cocoons affixed 

 to twigs of a Eucalypt whose capsules do not resemble the cocoons; 

 so that the association of species noticed by Mr. Williams is 

 probably accidental and without special significance. 



Mr. Froggatt also exhil^ited a collection of 25 species of 

 Termites from Borneo, Sarawak, and Africa, named and described 

 by Ml'. G. D. Haviland (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zoology, Vol xxvii., 

 1898), and received from Dr. D. Sharp, Curator of the Zoological 

 Museum, Cambridge, where the types are deposited. 



Mr. Rainbow exhibited a small quantity of silk spun by spiders, 

 of the genus Nephila, Leach, and drew attention to its great 

 strength. Native birds, like Zosterops, are often caught in the 

 webs of these spiders, and hang there until the wind and weather 

 have reduced them to absolute skeletons. 



Mr. Edgar R. Waite communicated the followina: 



Notes on the Range of Crocodihis and BrachyJoj)hus. 



Having recently written to Mr. Boulenger with reference 

 to the inclusion of Fiji in the habitat of Crocodilus 2)07-oiius, 

 Schn., (Boulenger, Cat. Chel. & Crocod. in the Brit. Mus., 

 p. 285), Mr. Boulenger replies that he had simplj' accej^ted 

 Strauch as his authority. I learn, however, that crocodiles 

 are unknown in Fiji, and though negative evidence is the 

 least satisfactor}^, yet in the case of such a large and dangerous 

 I'eptile, native testimony can safely be accepted. The only 



