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of some enzyme or poison injected by sucking insects. A mosquito, 

 for example, with stylets and labium measuring ^\ inch, could 

 pierce to the centre of the great majority of the pits. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited, and offered observations on Pani- 

 nnn (jlahrnm Gaud ('Syn. Paspahtm amhu/nnm DC), wiiich had 

 been forwarded to him for identification, amongst a number of 

 grasses, from near Ulmarra, Clarence Rivei', a new record for 

 this Indian species. Under ordinary conditions, this grass pro- 

 duces an abundance of seed, the vitality of which is not impaired 

 in the process of digestion; and, in a great measure, that may 

 account for its great dissemination, especially in the coast dis- 

 tricts. Mr. Turner had cultivated, in Australia, many of the 

 best fodder-grasses indigenous to Europe, Asia, Africa and 

 America; and, although some of them had been thoroughly 

 acclimatised for years, none of them spread so rapidly as the 

 accidentally introduced Panicum glabrnm. 



Mr. North sent, for exhibition, an example of a small race of 

 Dacelo gigas Boddairt, from the Jardine River, Cape York 

 Peninsula, Northern Queensland, which he proposed to distinguish 

 as a new subspecies, to be named after the collector, M r. W. 

 McLennan (Coll. MacGillivray). It bears a similar relation to 

 D. gigas as does the Fawn-breasted Kingfisher to D. /eachii A 

 typical example of D. gigas was shown, for comparison. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a specimen of a large wingless grass- 

 hopper, caught in a house at Mount Tambourine, (Southern 

 Queensland. It had invaded a mouse's nest, and, after frightening 

 the mother away, was feeding upon a young one when captured. 



Mr. Fletchei-, on behalf of Messrs. C. T. Musson and W. M. 

 Carne, showed examples of a phyllopod Crustacean (Apus sp.) 

 found in a stormwater-drain in one of the paddocks of the 

 Hawkesbury College farm, during the wet weather of last 

 February. The occurrence of this Central Australian form so 

 near the coast, is very remarkable. 



