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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the two sexes of the large 

 spiny phasmid, Extatosoma tiaratum^ Macl. The female is not 

 uncommon in the coastal scrubs, but the male is comparatively 

 rare. 



Mr. Harper contributed a supplementary Note on the " Onvar " 

 or wrist-guard of Malekula. " After my paper {antea, p. 233) 

 was read, I obtained further information from Rev. T. Watt 

 Leggatt, of Malekula. The same spiral band mentioned as being 

 used in the islands to the north is also common in Malekula. to- 

 gether with a simpler form, consisting merely of the mid-rib of a 

 banana leaf twisted round the wrist. The form figured is worn 

 loosely as a rule; but when fighting is imminent it is laced tightly 

 with a grass fibre. Further, Mr. Leggatt has investigated the 

 name usually given for the guard, viz., ' onvar.'' He discovers 

 that the correct title in the Aulua district (Port Sandwich) is 

 nehonvaVj derived from nehono, the face, and verna, the hand — 

 ver or var being the root for hand, as verajigk, my hand; vermi, thy 

 hand; verna, his hand. The word really means the face of the hand, 

 i.e., the thing that stands before the hand to protect it. In the 

 Maskelyne Group, south of Malekula, the guard is called 7iahonva. 

 In Pangkumu it is named as at Aulua. In the Uripio district 

 the word used is hekver, the derivation of which Mr. Leggatt has 

 not been able to discover." [The matter here given in its proper 

 place, was also printed on a slip and inserted to face p. 236 of 

 Part 2 of this Volume, for the sake of completeness. — Ed.]. 



Mr. Rainbow exhibited specimens of a common but interesting 

 spider, Desis marina, O. P. Camb., from Port Jackson. This 

 species is widely distributed, not only on the Australian coast 



