1052 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Professor Stephens exhibited, for Mr. M'Cooey, an Albino 

 variety of Dacelo gigas, and read a lengthy note on the habits 

 of the bird. Also, for the same gentleman, the head of a 

 specimen of Diemenia su2)erciliosa with two poison fangs in the 

 right jaw. 



Dr. Ramsay exhibited a specimen of Dendrolagus Lumlioltzi 

 from Mt. Bartle Frere, Northern Queensland. Also a rare Bird 

 of Paradise {Dij^hyllodes Gulielmi III. (J), from New Guinea. 

 Also specimens of a bower bird {Prionodura Newtoniana), ^, 9, 

 and young ^ ; and Sericoiiiis gutturalis, $, 9, and young $, 

 from Mt. Bartle Frere, recently obtained by Messrs. Cairn and 

 Grant, collectors for the Trustees of the Australian Museum. 



Mr. North exhibited the nests and eggs described in his paper. 



Mr. Skuse exhibited several specimens of the adults and pupa- 

 cases of a species of Tachina, a Dipterous parasite of the larvae 

 of the common case-moth, Oiketicus elongatus, Saund. About 

 seventy flies were reared from a single host. Also, specimens of 

 leery a purehasi, Mask., or the Cottony-cushion Scale, which he 

 had recently found in large numbers infesting the Desert Cypress, 

 or hill-pine [Frenela JEndlicheri (*?)], on the Mallabo range, near 

 Wagga Wagga, N.S.W., which seems to strongly support the 

 belief that this insect is indigenous in Australia. Also, several 

 galls of Cecidomyidas, from some of which Mr. Froggatt and 

 himself had bred the perfect insects. 



Mr. A.Sidney Olliff called attention to the phenomenal abundance 

 of a large Noctu id Moth — apparently il^ro^^s spina, Gu., (A.vastato?-, 

 Sc) — during the early part of the present month in various parts 

 of the country, especially in the vicinity of Sydney, where it ap- 

 peared in such vast numbers as to cause great consternation amongst 



