.524 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



elliptical form of spore, there were great numbers which possessed 

 a pyriform shape; (5) Uncinaria stenocephala Raill., a rare para- 

 site of the dog(N.S.W.), not previously reported from Australia; 

 {%) Anchyloatonia caiilnnm Ercol., also from the dog (Victoria; 

 collected by A. S. Le Sonef), recorded previously only from New 

 South Wales and Queensland; and (7) Fhysaloptera sp., from 

 Gould's jNIonitor, Frtrrt?«?ts ^o?t/o?i Sha\v( Victoria; collected by A. 

 S. Le Souef). 



Mr. A. S. Le >Souef showed a photograph of a male Wallaroo 

 {Macropiis rohustv.a) which liad been castrated when young. The 

 usual colour of the male is black, and of the female light grey; 

 but this gelded male, which lias been in the Zoological Gardens, 

 Sydney, for some years, is light grey like the female, yet other- 

 wise possesses the usual masculine characters, for example, 

 larger size and stouter build. He sliowed, also, a photograph of 

 three Carpet Snakes of New South Wales (/'^/^Aon variegata) 

 illustrating the great variation in this species; two well niaiked 

 types and a transversely striped intermediate form were repre- 

 sented; one of the former is widely distributed, the other is more 

 restricted (County of Cumberland and about 150 miles round); 

 but the latter is comparatively rare; the specimen photogi-aphed 

 came from Foster, N. S.W. 



Mr. E. Cheel showed a series of notewortlijr Fungi, com- 

 prising — Myxogastre^e : Arcyria nutans Rost.; Dante's Glen, 

 Lawson, Blue Mts., (Miss D. Wiles; communicated by Mr. A. 

 G. Hamilton; June, 1910) — Peronosporace^ : Pe.rovospora 

 schlei'leni Ung.; host, cultivated eschalots(J^^mm ' ascalonicitm 

 Linn.); Penshurst(E. Cheel; August, 1910). Previously recorded 

 by Dr. N. A. Cobb (Agricultural Gazette of New South 

 AVales, 189!, p. 616) as P. schleidenimia De Bar}', but without 

 specific locality. — Pucciniace^: Puccinia lasmaitica Diet.; host, 

 common gvoundse] (Semecio vulgaris Linn.), Thornleigh(E. Cheel; 

 August, 1910); SBcidia-stage only. This species is recorded by 

 McAIpine (" Rusts of Australia," p. 163) as occurring on IS. 

 pecliudtus DC; collected by Mr. J. H. Maiden, on Mount Kosi. 



