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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Smithurst exhibited the ulna, radius, and other bones of a 

 gigantic Kangaroo from a deep deposit at Gulgong. Also, two 

 specimens of Corals also from Gulgong ; one, Favosites Gothlandica, 

 the other, a species of Jsastrcea evidently foreign to the district. 



Mr. Ogilby exhibited a coloured drawing by Mr. Irwin, of the 

 beautiful fish Girella cyanea. 



Mr. A . Sidney OUiff exhibited a gigantic flea which he identified 

 as Puleo: echidnce, Denny. The specimen was found by Mr. Pedley 

 on the Australian Echidna together with the small species recently 

 described in the ' Proceedings ' as Echidnopliaga amhulans. 



Mr. Masters exhibited a fine collection of Entomogenous Fungi, 

 and read the following explanatory note : — 



" I have put together in the drawer I now exhibit some of the 

 most conspicuous Entomogenous Fungi in the Macleay Museum. 

 No. (1) labelled New South Wales, shows some large Lepidopterous 

 larvae, with the stipes, rising from the tail, as long and as thick as 

 the Caterpillai', and terminating in a double or sometimes single 

 large oblong somewhat compressed club. (2) Specimens of the well- 

 known New Zealand Isaria, the stipes springing from the head, 

 and 10 inches in length. (3) Specimens from Ash Island of larvae 

 of Rhyssonotus nebulosus in a similar state, the fungus rising from 

 the head in a thin stipes and terminating in a small round club. 

 (4) Some Cicada pupae similarly attacked (New South "Wales). 

 (.5) Larva of an Elater with a number of thread-like growths on 

 the sides of the body (New South Wales). (6) An Homopterous 

 Insect, with fine thread-like growths from its tail (N. S. Wales). 

 (7) Two Dipterous Insects from Cairns, with a short thick stipes 

 terminating in a round club, springing from the base of each 

 wing, evidently a Gordyceips. (8) Four different species of Hymen- 

 optera from Cairns, but apparently attacked by the same fungus, 

 which springs from all parts of the body in long, very thin, and 



