314 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. C. W. Darley exhibited pliotographs of, and communicated 

 particulars respecting, some extensive aboriginal kitchen middens 

 on the banks of North Creek, a tributary of the Richmond River. 

 Two of the largest have the following dimensions : 590 yards long, 

 55 feet wide, 10 feet high ; and 500 feet long, 30-40 feet wide, 

 and 5-15 feet high. They are composed almost entirely of oyster 

 shells, with occasional traces of ashes and cinders ; now and then 

 a few stones or a stone implement — a specimen of the latter was 

 exhibited — are met with. The shells are in course of removal, 

 chiefly for road-metalling, and before very long the mounds, which 

 antedate the occupation of the locality by the white man, will 

 have disappeared. It must have been a favourite haunt of the 

 blacks ; oysters, fish and wild fowl were plentiful, while the spot 

 was well sheltered and not liable to danger from floods. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited, for Baron von Mueller, flowering and 

 fruiting specimens of a new species of Acacia allied to A. 

 glaucescens, Wild. Up to the present it has been found on the 

 Richmond River and about Port Stephens. It will be described 

 at the next meeting. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a living specimen of a small Geckt) 

 {Gymnodactylus miliusii, Gray) from Bendigo, Victoria ; this 

 lizard is found from Sydney southwards round to Champion Bay, 

 W.A. 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited well-preserved specimens of a 

 Physalid {Alophota sp.) from Coogee Bay, an addition to our 

 marine fauna ; also, from Sydney Cove a specimen of Rhegmatodes 

 ihalassina,T^ron, one of the Leptornedusm, only previously recorded 

 from off the coast of Arnheim's Land. N. Australia. 



Mr. Trebeck showed photographs of the coccus and galls of one 

 of the Brachyscelidoi ; also specimens of the common sow-thistle 

 infested with the leaf-mining larvse of the fly {Phytomyza sp.), so 

 abundant during the spring of last year. 



