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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of, and offered some remarks 

 on, the larvae of five handsome and characteristic members of 

 the family Carahidce, namely : — 



Castelnaudia imperialis, Sloane. — Two different families of this 

 beautiful beetle were obtained under large logs along a forest 

 track on the top of Tambourine Mount, Southern Queensland, in 

 November, 1903. In one of them two eggs were found, each 

 enclosed in a rounded clay cell; and also two larvae. Larva 1 inch 

 long, light brown to ochreous-yellow in colour, with the dorsal 

 plates chocolate-brown; head broader than long, flattened, with 

 long curved reddish-brown jaws armed with a stout incurved tooth 

 towards the basal half. 



Catadromus Lacordairei, Boisd. — Larvae were taken along the 

 banks of a lagoon at Howlong, and on several occasions were 

 observed to be eating small frogs. 



Pamhorus viridis, Gory. — Larvae from under logs on the Tweed 

 River. 



Calosoma Schayeri, Erich., is common in fields infested with the 

 army cut-worm {Leucania unipunctata, Haw.), the larvae hiding 

 under clods of earth and devouring the pupae of the above- 

 mentioned and other cut-worms. 



And the larvae of a species at present undetermined. 



Mr. Johnston showed, under the microscope, mounted examples 

 and sections of parasitic Trematodes in illustration of his paper. 



Mr. Stead exhibited a specimen of Octojnis pictus with a batch 

 of newly deposited eggs. Also a portion of a fish preserved in 

 21 % of formalin, the slightly exposed surface of which was 

 covered with a luxuriant growth of mould. Dr. R. Greig Smith, 

 Dr. Chapman and the Chairman mentioned still more surprising 

 instances of the growth of fungi in, or upon substances wholly or 



