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Turner also showed a specimen of Paspolvm galmarra Bail., 

 from near Cudgen, Tweed River,N.S.W. Mr. F. M. Bailey, 

 C.M.G., F.L.S., Government Botanist, Queensland, named 

 this species in honour of Galmarra, Jacky Jacky, the faithful 

 aboriginal of Kennedy's disastrous expedition. The type- 

 specimen was discovered on the banks of the Russell River, 

 Queensland. It is a valuable pasture grass. The exhibitor 

 also showed a specimen of Chenolea caniosa Benth., a Cheno- 



pod from the Roebourne district, West Australia. The dense- 

 ly, long, silky-woolly hairs enveloping the fruiting perianths 



are said to cause " fibre-balls " in the stomachs of sheep that eat 



freely of the plant. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a specimen of the rare West Aus- 

 tralian Mole-cricket, C ylindracheta (Cylindrodes) Kochii 

 Saussure, forwarded by Mr. Newman, Entomologist to the 

 Department of Agriculture of West Australia, who reports it 

 as common about Perth, and a pest attacking the roots of 

 plants in some places ; the only other known species is C . 

 campbelli Gray, from Melville Island. Also examples of two 

 rare Cicadas, Thop/iia colorata Distant, from Bernier Island, 

 Shark Bay, W.A., and Henicopsalfria sp., from Perth, 



I'liiiied oir .")tli l)ecenil)er, 1912.] 



