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NOTES AND EXHIBITS 



L»r. Wool Is sent for exhibition the plants from King George's 

 Sound referred to in his paper, and flowering specimens of 

 Capparis Mitchelli, Lindl., and C. lasiantha, R.Br., both from 

 the Namoi, with the kindly intimation that they might after- 

 wards be added to the Society's herbarium. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a collection of interesting plants from 

 the Blue Mountains, which Dr. Woolls had kindly determined. 

 Also living adult and young specimens of Feripatus — the former 

 part of a collection of about one hundred specimens obtained last 

 month on the Blue Mountains, the later part of their progeny, 

 amounting to at least two hundred specimens, subsequently born 

 in captivity ; also the prematurely born young of an accidentally 

 injured femalOj advanced embryos extruded during the drowning 

 of the mothers, and dissected females showing the oviducts 

 crammed with embryos. In view of this fresh evidence, therefore, 

 he again emphatically protested against the sweeping generaliza- 

 tion of Dr. Dendy, to which extensive publicity has been given, 

 and which has appeared in at least four scientific journals, tliat 

 Feripatus leuckartii, Sang.,— in the wide sense in which Dr. 

 Dendy uses that teim, namely, to include the N.S.W. Feripatus 

 — " is really oviparous," as well as against Dr. Dendy's infeiences 

 and conclusions with regard to certain young specimens exhibited 

 at a Meeting of this Society in October, 1888. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited (1) a series of specimens illustrating 

 the life-history of the butterfly lalmenus evagoras, Don., the larvse 

 of which he had recently obtained at Maitland ou the foliage of 

 Acacia decurrens, and had noticed that they were visited by 

 numberless ants, attracted by a sugary excretion : (2) a large 

 arboreal spiny grasshopper recently obtained by Mr. Bauerlen, 

 botanical collector of the Technological Museum, at Ballina, Rich- 

 mond River, much resembling in appearance the rough and thorny 

 creeper upon which it is found : and {'?>) a small collection of rare 



