380 SOME NEW SOUTH WALES PLANTS ILLUSTRATED. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 



(Plate VIII.) 



Acacia ptigioni/ormis, WendL 



Fig. I. — Portion of a phyllodium (enlarged). 



Fig. 2.— Pistil (enlarged). 



Fig. 3. — Unexpanded flower (enlarged). 



Fig. 4. — Bracts (enlarged). 



Fig. 5. — Front and back views of a stamen (enlarged). 



Fig. 6. — Expanded flower (enlarged). 



Fig. 7.— Pod (nat. size). 



Fig. 8. — Section of pod, seed in situ (nat. size). 



Fig. 9. — Portion of fruit valve with seed (enlarged). 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited a twig of Eucalyptus robusta, 

 attacked by " lerp "-making Psyllee, together with mounted speci- 

 mens of the lerp and perfect insects, A large number of the trees 

 liave had their foliage entirely destroyed by the countless numbers 

 of the larvae of the insects. 



Mr. A. Sidney Olliff exhibited drawings of the galls and coccids 

 described in his paper. Also specimens of a very large earwig, 

 Anisolabris colossea, Dohrn, from the Richmond and Tweed River 

 districts, the examples exhibited being more than twice the size 

 of Dohrn's types. 



