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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a specimen of Chi oris divaricata R.JSr., 

 " Star-grass," collected near Reedy Creek, Inverell district, the 

 most easterly locality known to him for it in New South Wales, 

 with the possible exception of a doubtful specimen collected by 

 him in the Clarence River district. Specimen No. 29 in the 

 list, without locality, given on p. 43 8 of the Catalogue of the 

 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, New South Wales Court, 

 was found by him near Gundabooka, N.S.W. 



Mr. \V. W. Froggatt exhibited examples of Brachyscelid galls 

 {Apiomorpha pharatrata Schr.), the male galls growing out from 

 the side of the female galls, the winged, male coccids resting in 

 the gall-tubes. 



Mr. J. L. Froggatt showed specimens of a fourth (undescribed) 

 Chalcid wasp, bred from the pupie of Pycnosoma /'njifacies, one 

 of the green blowflies troublesome to sheep, collected at Salis- 

 bury Court, Uralla, N.S.W. 



Mr. Tillyard exhibited a collection of insects belonging to the 

 very ancient Order Mecoptera or Panorpatse^ in illustration of 

 his paper on the new family Nannochoristidce, including repre- 

 sentatives of the Panorpidct (s.str.), Meropidrf^ Chorit<fid(f, 

 Bittacidce, and Xmuiochoristidce. 



Mr. Fletcher called attention to two recent records of Aus- 

 tralian plants escaping from cultivation in other countries, and 

 interfering with the indigenous yegetsition— Acacia dealbata 

 Link, in South Africa [Henkel, J. S., South African Journal of 

 Science, xiii., No.5, p. 185 (1916)]; and Hakea acicularis R.Br., 

 in New Zealand [Bell, J. M., & Clarke, C, Bulletin No.8 (N.S.) 

 of the New Zealand Geological Survey, p. 5 (1909)]. 



