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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt showed specimens of Xylotriipes nimrod, the 

 coconut-palm beetle and its pupse, which ranges from New Guinea 

 to Java. The larvfe live in decaying vegetable matter, whence 

 the pupfe wex'e obtained. The beetles bore into the stem of the 

 young palm, and damage the terminal bud. 



Mr. Maiden .showed fruits of the Jarrali of Western Australia 

 [Eucalyjytus marginata Sm.) showing an irregularly striate 

 appearance. As shown in the specimens, it is the result of the 

 contraction of subsucculent vascular tissue over longitudinal 

 bands of fibrovascular tissue. This appearance is only occasion- 

 ally seen in Eucalyptus fruits, e.g., in those of Karri(^. diversi- 

 color F, v.M. ). Also seedling plants of Cassytha panicidata R.Br., 

 raised by Mr. Boorman, of the Botanic Gardens. He read a 

 paragraph from Kerner k Oliver's " Natural History of Plants," 

 (i., 176) in which the life-history of Cassytha seedlings is 

 described; and the exhibitor observed that the seedlings are 

 rarely observed in Nature, partly because of their grass-like 

 appearance, and partly because they soon enter upon their 

 parasitic, non terrestrial state. 



Mr. A. R. McOulloch exhibited, by permission of the Curator 

 of the Australian Museum, some small fishes which he had 

 collected at difierent localities along the Great Barrier Reef, 

 Queensland, which do not appear to have been I'ecorded from 

 Australia. Halichoeres opercularis Gunth., and H. nebulosus C. 

 and v., from Masthead Island off Port Curtis, are common species 

 throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Acanthoclinus littoreus 



