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if it can be encouraged to give more attention to the intro- 

 duced host, it may render most useful service to fruit- 

 growers. 



Mr. A. R. Mc'Jiilloch exhibited, by permission of the 

 Curator oi the AustraUan Museum, specimens of Leiuranus 

 s( micinctus Lay and Bennett, and (Janthigaster hennetti 

 Bleeker, which he had collected at Murray Island, Torres 

 kT'trait. Neither of these fishes appears to have been pre- 

 viously recorded from Australia, though both are well known 

 from the East Indian Archipelago and the Pacific Ocean. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the Kurrajong Star- 

 Psylla, Tyuni stfrcidue Froggatt, upon a pot-plant, showing 

 the curious filaments produced by the larvse on the leaves. 

 Also specimens of parasitic Hymenoptera, in illustration of 

 Mr. Cameron's paper. 



Mr. North, by permission of the Curator of the Aus- 

 tralian Museum, sent for exhibition, a series of skins of the 

 Plumed Bronze-wing, or "Spinifex Pigeon," Luphophaps 

 plumifera Gould, from various localities in North-western 

 Australia, Central Australia, Northern Queensland, and 

 South Australia. Immature birds are much paler than 

 adults, and have a less amount of white on the breast. When 

 fully adult, specimens from all of these States are absolutely 

 indistinguishable from one another, in colour and measure- 

 ments. As pointed out by Mr. North in the Transactions of 

 the Royal Society of South Australia (1898, xxii., p.l.")7), 

 Lophophaps leucogaster, described by Gould from South Aus- 

 tralia, is a synonym of L. plumifera. He also exhibited a 

 skin of a Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantrs flahelliformis 

 Latham) presented by Mr. W. Whiting, of Lord Howe 

 Island, the bird having been caught alive in that locality in 

 an exhausted state, after a heavy prolonged westerly blow in 

 May, 1911. 



Mr. Cheel exhibited a very interesting scries of specimens 

 of West Australian species of rcrsoonia, from the National 



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