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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



-Mr. Froggiitt exhibited specimens of the galls mentioned in his 

 paper, together with drawings of the same. Also two hazel hoops 

 taken from powder kegs on board one of the powder hulks in 

 Sydney attacked by the larva? of Gracilia j^ygmcea, Fal)r., a 

 small European longicorn beetle, specimens of which were 

 shown, and which had been evidently introduced in the wood. 

 The larvie burrow under the Imrk of the hoops. As many as over 

 40 specimens were bred from two hoops. Also the remains of a 

 lar\a of the Australian silk worm moth (Anthercea eucalypti) 

 destroyed by parasitic hymenoptera (Fam. Braconidoa) which had 

 produced a remarkable mass of white cotton-like substance 2^ 

 inches long and \\ inch in width, enveloping a double row of 

 cocoons. 



Mr. jSIaiden sent for exhibition some specimens of fire-sticks 

 used by the natives on the ranges behind Cardwell, N. Queens- 

 land. They are tied up in bundles with a board on which the 

 sticks are rubbed, painted and carved to represent some animal. 

 Also some pearl-shell fishhooks cut into slender curved points, 

 with modernised editions made from iron nails picked up on the 

 sea shore in which the old form is repi;oduced, used by the natives 

 of Hinchinl)rook Island. Also a shell forehead ornament from 

 the same place. 



Mr. Garland slujwed a miscellane(jus gathering of fragmenta 

 from an aboriginal kitchen midden iu a cave shelter at Pittwater, 

 comprising spines of various fishes, Ijones of mai-supials, itc, 

 together with a pointed bone, probaljly in use as a piercer in 

 sewing skins. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited a varied collection of zoological and 

 botanical specimens found by F. C. Brazier at Nelson Bay Beach 

 (Bronte), Waverley, during the southerly gales of April 11-1 3t]i 

 last, comprising Sejna apama, Gray, common; ^. elomjata. Orb., 

 rare, one imperfect specimen; S. capensis, Orb., thirty specimens; 

 S. australis, Orb., eight specimens in very fair condition; laidhina 



