308 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



zelandice Clarke, from the Victorian coast. They ditfered from 

 the description of the adult in lacking several important char- 

 acters, but their identity witli the New Zealand species was 

 proved hy Mr. Waite, who had compared specimens of different 

 sizes froui both localities. A half-grown s[)ecimen, from New 

 Zealand, was also exhibited for comparison. 



Mr. J. E. Carne showed specimens of tin and wolfram ores 

 from the F^>utler Tin Mine, Torington, New England, the interest- 

 ing point being the mode of deposition of the minerals associated 

 in these specimens — viz., quartz, chlorite, cassiterite, and wolfram. 

 Also an interesting rock from Hawkin's Lease, Rockvale Wol- 

 fram and Bismuth Mines, Cow Flat, New England, in which 

 tlie constituents — quartz and felspar — were each perfectly crys- 

 tallised; but on weathering these minerals were liberated as 

 perfect independent crystals. 



Mr. C. F. Laseron, by permission of the Curator of the Tech- 

 nological Museum, exhibited a fine frond of C ardiopteris poly- 

 morpha Goppert, showing nine pinnules, from the Carboniferous 

 formation at Paterson, N.S.W. This so far has been found only 

 as isolated pinnules. Other exhibits from the Lower Marine 

 Series at Allandale, N.S.W., were a very fine specimen of 

 Strajjarollus ammonitiformis Eth. fil.; and also a well preserved 

 Keeneia, showing the band, and possibly synonymous with Platy- 

 schisma roimidatum Morris. 



Mr. Cheel showed a fine series of Xylostroma giganteum Fries, 

 a timber-destroying fungus. It is usually found in various 

 species of Eucalypts, in whitish or tan-coloured masses, in some 

 cases resembling chamois leather, and in others of a whitish 

 tough papery nature. The tan-coloured masses very closely 

 resemble the "German TiwAQV-Ywngw^^' {Fomes fomentarius Cooke), 

 and probably belong to a closely allied species of that genus. 

 The white masses are probably the sterile mycelium of Polyporus 

 eucalyptorum Fries, which is known to infest various species of 

 Eucalypts. The sterile mycelia are usually forwarded without 



