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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr T. Steel exhibited the gizzard of a Muscovy duck with a 

 lateral, vermiform appendage, three-quarters of an inch in length. 



Mr. Fred Turner exhibited a specimen of Geranium molle 

 Linn., a European annual weed, found growing in Moore Park, 

 in 1891, a species not included in the late Dr. Woolls' "Plants 

 Indigenous and Naturalised in the Neighbourhood of Sydney " 

 (1891). 



Mr. J. L Froggatt showed specimens of the common House-fly 

 (Musca domestica Linn.) bred from maggots collected from stale 

 and rotten liver in which blowfly-maggots had previously fed and 

 matured, at Moree, N.S. W.; the first time, as far as the exhibitor 

 could ascertain, that this species had been reported as breeding 

 in purely animal matter. 



Mr. W, W. Froggatt exhibited specimens of three introduced 

 beetles of economic importance — A^iobium domesticiim Fourer, 

 a wood-borer, introduced from Europe in timber, recently found 

 damaging floors in several localities; Rhizopertha dominica Fabr., 

 an Indian beetle, becoming a serious wheat-pest in South Aus- 

 tralia, and at Sydney; Spheno])ho7'us striatus Fahrs., a Brazilian 

 beetle, whose larvse attack the basal portion of the stems of 

 Banana-plants in Southern Queensland and in the Tweed River 

 district. Mr. Froggatt also communicated particulars respecting 

 recent migrations of mice in inland districts, and of small, car- 

 nivorous Marsupials {FhascogaJe Jiavipes Waterh.) which prey on 

 them. 



Dr. Tillyard showed a specimen of shale with a fossil insect- 

 wing, from the roof of the coal-seam of the Sydney Harbour 

 Colliery, described in a recent paper. 



Mr. Fletcher showed a series of Brachyscelid galls from one 

 branch of a tree of Eucalyptus resinifera^ some of which had 

 incorporated leafy branchlets. 



