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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Baron von Mueller sent for exhibition a flowering specimen of 

 Musgravea stenostachya, described in his paper. 



Mr. A. Sidney OllifF exhibited some Scale-i nsects or Coccididse 

 which had been sent to him by Mr. H. Goss, through the kind 

 intervention of Mr. J. W. Douglas. The insects wei-e from Natal 

 — where they had been found on Acacia melanoxylon and Grevillea 

 robiosta, introduced Australian trees — and were the same as those 

 exhibited at the May Meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 London in 1889. Mr. Douglas had expressed the opinion that 

 these insects belong to the Brachyscelidae, a family of gall-making 

 Coccids, suggesting, however, that some entomologist in Australia 

 might, from local knowledge, be able to say something more definite 

 concerning them. Mr. Ollifi" said that it appeared to him that 

 the insects were certainly not Brachyscelids as those insects, both 

 males and females, live within woody galls on various species of 

 Eucalyptus, whereas it appeared that the specimens received from 

 Mr. Douglas were true chitinous " scales," probably those of the 

 adult female Coccids. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited (1) samples of wheat from various dis- 

 tricts in New South Wales showing the effects of rust both on the 

 foliage and on the "tassel;" (2) the fruits of an undetermined 

 palm from the New Hebrides, from which a pink dye-stuff is 

 obtainable; (3) " Lake cotton," an alga thrown up on the shores 

 of Lake Corangamite, Victoria, a similar substance to which was 

 formerly occasionally employed in Europe as a substitute for tow ; 

 and (4) the following specimens from North Queensland : — The 

 capsule of Bombax 'malabaricum, DC; Coorwah Nuts (^0/?zp/ia^ea 

 queenslandice, F. M. Bailey) ; the fruits of an undetermined 

 Loranthus ; the seeds of the '* Coy-you " the flavour of which 

 when fresh is said to be not unlike coffee ; and the fruits of 

 Quinine ( Peialostigma quadriloculare). 



