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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



(With the exception of the last one, the following exhibits were unavoid- 

 ably held over from the last Meeting.) 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited two moths (Ghrysiqohona occultans, Don.) 

 bred from caterpillars forwarded by Mr. A. Simson of Launceston, 

 because of their striking resemblance to the leaves of the 

 sprouting shoots of Eucalyptus amygdalina, on -which they were 

 found to be feeding. 



Also, for Mr. C. T. Musson, a specimen of a day-flying moth 

 (Agarista Macleayi), one of a number whose stridulating powers 

 attracted attention on the 9th Nov., at the Kurrajong Heights. 

 Thovigh known to Mr. Masters as a sound-producer, there would 

 appear to be no previous recorder of it in this capacity, nor is it 

 included among the stridulating species of Australian lepidoptera 

 mentioned by Messrs. H. Edwards, H. Tryon and G. F. Hampson. 

 Also a specimen of a plant, Bossicea rhombi folia, Sieb., infested 

 with a fungus, ^cidium eburneum, McAlp., unrecoi'ded from 

 New South Wales. Also specimens of a beetle (Rhopoia soror or 

 an allied species) which appeared in prodigious numbers in the 

 paddocks of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College at Richmond, 

 during the last two or three weeks of November. At night time 

 they were distinctly audible at some distance. Large numbers 

 came into the houses, attracted by the light. "With them were 

 associated a few specimens of Anoplognathus. Many of the 

 specimens of Rhop?ea were noticed to be infested with a spider 

 mite, doubtless a species of Gamasus. 



Mr. Trebeck exhibited a specimen of a fish, Solenognathus 

 spinosissimus, from Middle Harbour. 



