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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited (1) an interesting collection of named 

 Australian Thysanura, popularly known as Silver-fishes, for 

 whose determination he was indebted to Dr. Silvestri, of Portici. 

 The destructive species only too common in Australian houses 

 turns out to be an African alien, Lepisma lorigicaudata, Escherich, 

 unknown in Europe and America, and now for the first time 

 recorded from Australia. Previously it had been looked upon 

 as L. saccharina, L., which has a wide range in Europe and 

 America ; and Australian specimens have been erroneously 

 recorded under this name (Journ. Roy. Microscop. Soc. 1882, 

 p.500). Other species represented in the collection were Z. 

 jjroducta, Escherich, 'recorded from Condoblin, N.S.W., the 

 animals living under stones in pine scrub; the representatives of 

 three new species found in the bush under stones; examples of a 

 remarkable, somewhat shrimp-like form frequenting open caves 

 on the seashore at Terrigal, N.S.W. (2) A named collection of 

 Italian forms of the genera Japy?c^ Lepisma and Machilis, 

 received from Dr. Silvestri. (3) A named collection of six 

 species of Japanese Cicadas taken in the neighbourhood of 

 Tokyo. And (4) living species of a Paussid beetle, Arthroptervs 

 darlingeiisis, MacL, obtained on the banks of the Darling River 

 between Bourke and Brewarrina, N.S.W., during last month. 



Mr. Baker exhibited specimens of the Actinotus described in 

 his paper. Also examples of a remarkable Puffball fungus,. 

 Podaxon jEgyptiaciis; the only know^n representative of the genu& 

 in Australia; collected by Mr. R. H. Cambage at Bourke, N.S.W. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited, and offered some observations on,, 

 a collection of Lichens from the eastern slopes of New England, 

 N.S.W."^ He also showed Triiicwm repens, Linn., a European 

 grass now established at Stonehenge, New England. 



* A list of these will be found on p. 308. 



