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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW TIGER-BEETLES^ 

 THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. 

 By T. G. Sloane. 

 ( Withdrawn for mnendment^ by jjermismoa of the Council.) 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Maiden showed a flov/erino^-twio, and drawings of 

 Eiicalyptus erythrocorys F.v.M., a remarkable species, grown for 

 the first time in New South Wales. It is locally rare in Western 

 Australia. Some seed was obtained from Mr. W, D. Campbell, 

 who collected it about 20 miles from Dongarra. Sown on 10th 

 October, 1913, it threw off its first operculum on 11th April, 

 1917. It is at present a slender, small, smooth-barked tree of 

 16 feet, with a girth of 7 inches. It has remarkable fieshy, 

 rugose, biretta-like, quadrangular opercula, old carmine-red in 

 colour, which contrast sharply with the bright green calyx-tubes. 

 The filaments were greenish-yellow as they opened, and are now 

 a bright yellow. Apart from its scientific interest, the species 

 has obviously considerable horticultural value. 



Mr. Tillyard exhibited a collection of insects from, and gave 

 a short lecture on. Cradle Mt., N. W. Tasmania, and its natural 

 history, illustrated by lantern-slides. On a visit to this locality 

 in January last, accompanied by Mr. G. H. Hardy, of the Tas- 

 manian Museum, Hobart, an interesting insect-fauna was dis- 

 covered, the majority of the species captured being new to 

 science. The ancient Orders Perlaria (Stone-flies) and Trichop- 

 tera (Caddis-flies) were particularly abundant, about twelve new 

 species of the former and thirty of the Utter being taken. Three 

 very fine new Dragonflies were found, two of which are closely 

 allied to Chilian forms. A new family of small Scorpion-flies 

 (Order Mecoptera) closely resembling Diptera, was also dis- 

 covered, and some very rare Lepidoptera and Diptera were taken. 

 Hymenoptera and Coleoptera were almost completely absent. 

 Collecting was chiefly carried on in the Cradle Valley, at the 

 3000-4000 feet levels, the best localities being the shores of 

 Lakes Dove, Lilla, and Crater Lake, and the mountain-streams 

 in the vicinity. 



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