898 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. J. R. Garland sent for exhibition photographs of the fantas- 

 tically weathered "clay cliffs" at Alf'-edtown near Wagga Wasfga, 

 together with a specimen of the formation, which may be described 

 as a dull brick-red, micaceous, ferruginous sand rock. 



Dr. Norton exhibited and made some remarks on tlie nuts of 

 Helicia Whelani from Queensland, sent to him by Mr. Bailey of 

 Brisbane. 



Mr. Musson exhibited a large general zoological collection from 

 Narrabri and Tarn worth, N.S.W., comprising insects (Coleoptera 

 and Lepidoi:)tera being most conspicuously represented), crus- 

 taceans (Astacopsis, PaUenion, and ApiisJ, frogs and lizards ; also 

 Permo-Carboniferous fossils from the same localities. Also three 

 specimens of the interesting mollusc Cystopelta recently obtained 

 by him near Ballarat, Victoria, the genus previously having been 

 recorded only from Tasmania, and Mt. Kosciusko, N.S.W. Also, 

 on behalf of Mr. W. S. Duncan of Inverell, specimens of locusts 

 ( Pachytylus australis, Brunn.), of which he reports that on Nov. 

 30th he found them in all the open country in countless millions ; 

 and of a butterfly (Pieris teutonia, Don.), of which migratory 

 swarms were in flight on 13th and 14th inst., making due east, 

 the males preponderating, on an average, perhaps, about twenty 

 to one. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited eleven living specimens of the handsome 

 toad, Notaclen bennettii, Gthr., received that morning from Trangie 

 from Rev. J. Milne Curran, F.G.S. 



Mr. North exhibited the eggs of the Torres Straits Pigeon 

 described in his paper. 



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