312 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Etheridge exhibited the fossils referred to in his paper. 



Mr. Skuse exhibited specimens of sixty-seven species of Chiron- 

 omidse described in his paper ; a Tineid bred from a species of 

 stag-horn fern growing in Mr. Macleay's garden ; a young plant 

 from Samoa growing like Bryophyllum or one of the Gesneracese 

 from the leaf ; and a female gall and Coccid, Brachyscelis du2^lex, 

 obtained by Mr. Maiden on Eucalyiytios jnjjeo^itaj at Little Zig-zag, 

 Blue Mountains, with the apical processes of the gall projecting 

 upwards instead of outwards. 



Also an excellent drawing by Mr. G. V. Hudson of Wellington, 

 New Zealand, of the imago and enlarged wing of a Dipterous fly 

 which is phosphorescent in its larval condition. In 1886 both 

 Mr. Meyrick and Mr. Hudson observed these luminous larvae for 

 the first time inhabiting the banks of a shady creek in New 

 Zealand, and although the latter gentleman has since repeatedly 

 tried to obtain the perfect insect by breeding, his efforts have only 

 just recently been rewarded in obtaining a single specimen. As 

 Baron Osten-Sacken suspected (Ent. Mon. Mag. XXIII. p. 133) 

 the insect belongs to the Mycetophilidse, but, accepting the draw- 

 ings as correct, the fly must be referred to a new genus of the 

 section Ceroplatinse. 



Mr. Ogilby exhibited two examples of the rare Anomalo2)S 

 j)al'pehratus, Bodd., sp., a deep sea flsh provided with a luminous 

 lobe beneath the eye. Bleeker and Kner place the genus in the 

 family Berycidce, but it is probable that it is an aberrant form of 

 the CarangidcB as stated by Giinther. Bleeker's generic name, 

 Heterophthalmiis having been previously used by Blanch ard for a 

 genus of Coleopterous insects, must give place to Kner's Anoma- 

 lops. Only eight specimens are known, four from Amboina and 

 Manado, one from Fiji, one from the Paumoto Archipelago, and 

 our two from the New Hebrides whence they were brought by 

 Captain Braithwaite. 



