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are obtainable from them ; No. 3 is a gall 

 (generally on the midrib of the leaves of E. corymhosa, 

 out of which only beautiful little wasps with black mark- 

 ings (Fam. Froctotrupidce) were obtained ; No. 4 is a curious 

 gall occurring also on E. corymhosa, from which a small 

 Cecidomyia—iprohahlj the true gall-maker — together with para- 

 sites (Fam. Chalcididce) were bred; No. 5 is an irregularly shaped 

 gall occurring generally at the base of the leaves of F. corymbosa^ 

 from which only parasitic Hymenoptera (Fam. Chalcididce) were 

 obtained ; No. 6 is a gall forming swellings on the twigs of E. 

 corymbosa, from which only parasitic Hymenoptera (Fam. Chalci 

 didce) were obtained ; No. 7 is the horned coccus gall (Brachy- 

 scelis munita, Sch.) from the horns of which parasites (Fam. 

 Chalcididce) emerged ; No. 8 are oval coccus galls (Brachyscelis 

 2nleata, Sch.) from Port Hacking, from which Hymenoptera 

 (Fam. Froctotrupidce and Chalcididce) together with two moths 

 emerged." 



Mr. Maiden exhibited a quantity of the gum of the Red Cedar 

 described in his paper. Also a large collection (about 880 species) 

 of European plants, which he then presented to the Society. 



A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Maiden for his valuable 

 present. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a collection of sixty species of plants 

 from the neighbourhood of Hay, N.S.W., a fairly representative 

 sample of the luxuriant vegetation of the Murrumbidgee plains 

 in the present almost unprecedentedly favourable season, during 

 which the plains have been a magnificent natural flower-garden 

 on a gigantic scale, whereas in the same month (September) of 

 the preceding dry year they were entirely bare. Dr. Woolls, 

 who has kindly examined the collection, states that he was struck 

 with the unusual proportions of some of the plants, both leaves 

 and flowers being larger than those of the typical plants described 

 in the Flora Australiensis. 



