1100 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Skuse exhibited specimens of Diptera as follows: — (1) 

 Cecidomyidse bred from small brown scale-like discolorations 

 occurring very numerously on the leaves of EuGalyj)tus corymhosa 

 common about Sydney ; (2) another species bred from globular, 

 ^-alvate, galls found on the hill-pine {Frenela Endlicheri) near 

 WaggaWagga, N.S.W. ; (3) specimens of a species of PAom bred 

 from the larvae of Oiketicus elongatus, Saund. 



Mr. Froggatt showed the following exhibits: — (1) a specimen 

 of a case-moth Oiketicus elongatus, Saund., together with a number 

 of specimens of parasitic Hymenoptera {Hockeria sip., Fam. Chal- 

 cididce) bred from a batch of dipterous larvae (TacMna sp,), 

 similar to those exhibited by Mr. Skuse at the September Meeting, 

 parasitic upon the case-moth ; (2) specimens of parasitic Hymen- 

 optera (Fam. Braconidoe) which destroy the caterpillars of Teara 

 tristis; (3) a family of the young caterpillars of a case-moth 

 (Oiketicus Eiibneri, Saund.), which when hatched a fortnight ago 

 were little active black caterpillars, and immediately commenced to 

 make their cases out of any suitable material that came to hand. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a collection of about 110 species of 

 plants from the neighbourhood of Wagga Wagga, which Dr. 

 Woolls, with his customary kindness and enthusiasm, had been 

 good enough to determine. Among the more interesting species 

 represented perhaps the most noteworthy are Bedfordia salicinay 

 DC, Stuartina Muelleri, Sond., Vittadinia australis, A. Rich., 

 (two vars.), among the Oompositae ; and Caladenia clavigera, 

 A. Cunn., (Orchideae). A few common Port Jackson plants were 

 met with, and introduced plants were found to be very numerously 

 represented. 



The President exhibited a number of parasitic Nematode worms 

 (Ascaris sp.), from the alimentary canal of the brown snake 

 (Diemenia sv^yeiriliosa), obtained and forwarded by Mr. McCooey. 



