438 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



" Mr. Etheridge, Palaeontologist to the Australian Museum and 

 Department of Mines, N.S.W., to whom I submitted them, agrees 

 that tliey strongly resemble Lepidostrohus scales. 



" Pterophyllum : A specimen of this genus was collected by me 

 from the quarry at Kenny Hill, near Campbelltown." 



Mr. A. M. Lea showed a small collection of insects which 

 inhabit ant and termite nests, including a dipterous insect 

 ( Microdon variegata), one of the Micro-lepidoptera at present 

 undetermined, both from Sydney ; and of coleoptera, two species 

 of PselaphidcB from Tamworth and Inverell, Anthrenus sp., from 

 Sydney, Lagria n.sp., from Cootamundra and Queanbeyan, and 

 a fifth species (g. et sp. indet.). 



Mr. Brazier exhibited for Mr. T. Steel three aboriginal stone 

 axes, one with a groove for hafting, from the Herbert River, said 

 to have been found at a depth of 30 feet in sinking a well ; a 

 second from the Tweed River, being a simple adaptation of a flat 

 water-worn stone by grinding the thinner end ; the third from 

 Harrow, Victoria. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited for Mr. G. L. Pilcher of Rockhampton 

 an undescribed longicorn, and two of the mud nests of one of the 

 solitary wasps ( Eumenes Latreillei, Sauss.), together with speci- 

 mens of the wasp and of a species of Chrysis which, like members 

 of the same family elsewhere, plays the part of cuckoo ; and he 

 communicated a note giving particulars of the mode of construc- 

 tion of the nests exhibited, and of the habits of the maker and 

 of the attendant intruder. 



