344 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



vegetable fibre resembling horse-hair. It averages externally 3 

 inches in diameter b}- If inches in depth, the inner cup measuring 

 H inclies in diameter b}^ 1:^ inches in depth. The eggs are oval 

 in form, the shell being close-grained, smooth and lustreless. 

 They are of a faint \^ello\vi«h-green ground colour, one specimen 

 having a band of confluent blotches around the thicker end of 

 pale ochraceous-brown and dull chestnut-red, intermingled with a 

 few underlying spots of light purplish-red; the other has the 

 markings, which are of a rich purplish-red, smaller and more 

 evenly distributed over the surface of the shell, also a few under- 

 lying spots of much paler shades of the same colour. Length 

 (A) 0-75 X 0-58 inch; (B) 0-72 x 0*6 inch. The specimens were 

 kindly lent for description by Mr. Charles French, Junr., Assistant 

 Government Entomologist, Melbourne. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited, on behalf of Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald, 

 specimens of the plants described as new species in the latter's 

 paper. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited specimens of new species of plants 

 described by Prof. K. Schumann, of Berlin, from the Bismarck 

 Archipelago (New Britain). Also blanched leafless dead stems 

 of Lepidium riiderale, Linn., "Wild Mustard," from Brewarrina. 

 Cows eat the plant in this state and give good yields of milk, 

 but when it is green they will not touch it. It is assumed that 

 in the state as exhibited the stems had lost the acridity which 

 the fresh plant possesses. Also specimens from Dr. Hugo de 

 Vries of Amsterdam, of his Dipsacas sylvestris torsus, being 

 twisted stems showing the torsion of secondar}^ branches to left 

 and right. 



Mr. Fletcher showed a series of original drawings made during 

 the memorable journey of Charles Darwin in H.M.S. "Beagle," 

 Captain Fitzroy, during the years 1831-36. Also the MS. journal 

 of the artist, the late Mr. Syms Covington, which with the 

 exception of one break was kept regularly throughout the voyage; 

 likewise some literary relics of Darwin. Mr. Covington accom- 



