654 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS, 



Mr. Skuse exhibited specimens, both pupae and flies, of a new- 

 species of Cecidoinyia, together with the galls formed by the 

 insects upon the branches of Acacia longifolia. The galls are 

 cylindrical, from 12 to 18 mm. long, and occur in closely packed 

 bunches of from two to twenty or thirty tubes. When found at 

 the beginning of August, each tube contained a full-grown pupa 

 inclosed in a white cocoon at the bottom of the tube. 



Also, specimens of a minute Hymenopterous insect belonging 

 to the genus Platygaster, some small beetles belonging to the 

 Mycetophagidse, and a small moth, all likewise bred from the 

 above-mentioned galls. 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited flowering specimens of Sjorengelia 

 ponceletia, F.v.M., one of the rarer Epacrids in the neighbourhood 

 of Sydney, but occurring abundantly at one particular spot in 

 the middle of a swamp at Waterloo. 



Mr. T. G. Sloane exhibited his collection of beetles belonging to 

 the Carenides, comprising 65 species. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a lump of the Spinifex resin as prepared 

 by the aborigines of N. W. Australia, treated of in Mr. Maiden's 

 paper. 



Mr. A. Sidney Olliff exhibited the Fire-flies described in his 

 paper. He also showed a finely coloured male specimen of Pielus 

 imperialism O. & P., caught early in July on a lamp post at the 

 North Shore, Sydney, by Mr. M. V. Miller. 



Dr. Read showed a specimen of the Frigate or Boatswain Bird 

 in its first plumage, from Lord Howe Island. 



