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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Ml'. Sloane showed specimens of several species of Coleoptera 

 from the Richmond River District described in the Rev. T. 

 Blackburn's paper. 



Mr. J. H. Maiden exhibited a " core " of the caudex of 

 Xanthorrlicea arborea, R. Br., together with transverse and 

 longitudinal sections of the " core." He drew attention to its 

 structure, which shows the distribution of fibi-o-vascular bundles 

 and general arrangement of an endogenous stem, together with 

 concentric rings (or rather markings in the form of concentric 

 rings), and what strongly resemble medullary rays, reminding 

 one of the structure of an exogenous stem. He cannot at present 

 find any published references to the structure of this " core," but 

 is continuing his inquiries. He also exhibited a fine section of 

 an endogenous stem, 20 inches in diameter, from an unknown 

 soui'ce, as it was found floating in the harbour. The botanical 

 origin of this specimen is uncertain, and provoked discussion. 



Mr. J. D. Ogilby exhibited two snakes from New Guinea, 

 namely, Brachysoma triste, a rare Australian snake not previously 

 recorded from New Guinea ; and a death-adder (Acanthophis), 

 much less robust than the southern species (A. antarctica), but 

 not agreeing exactly with A. Icevis, Macleay. The two specimens 

 exhibited form part of a collection obtained by Sir William 

 Macgregor at St. Joseph's River, and subsequently officially for- 

 warded to the Australian Museum for identification. 



Mr. Froggatt showed two large apple-shaped galls nearly two 



inches in diameter found on Eucalt/ptus sp., in the vicinity of King's 



Sound, N.W. Australia. They are the female galls of an unde 



scribed species of gall-making Coccid (family Brachyscelidce), and 



in the green state, along with the contained Coccus, are eaten by 



the natives of the Kimberley District. 

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