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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Tillyard exhibited mounted and spirit specimens of the 

 sexes of Ischnnra hete^'osticta, Burm. [Fam. Agrionidce\, treated 

 of in his paper. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited (1) some coloured drawings of Port 

 Jackson plants of considerable historical interest. They were 

 executed by J. W. Lewin during the period 1805-1808, for 

 Governor and Mrs. King, and some years later were examined by 

 Allan Cunningham, whose determinations in manuscript they 

 still bear. The drawings had been presented to the Botanic 

 Gardens by Miss Goldfinch, great great grand-daughter of 

 Governor King. (2) Specimens of a new genus of Compositse 

 {Cratjjstylis, Spencer Moore, Journal of Botany, May, 1905), 

 founded on Olearia (1) cotiocephala, F.v.M. (B.Fl. iii. 480) and its 

 varieties. The plant is remarkable for its flattened style-arms. 



Dr. Greig Smith showed a number of lantern .slides in 

 illustration of his paper. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited (1) a remarkably deformed terminal 

 branch of Eucalypt obtained by Mr. Kenneth Stephen from a 

 garden at Rose Bay; the pathological condition of the specimen 

 seemed to be due to a fungoid disease similar to that which 

 attacks the Black Wattle. (2) Examples of two species of 

 Coleoptera received from Mr. Maiden, with an intimation that 

 they were pests of coconut palms in the New Hebrides. One was 

 a lamellicorn; the other an undetermined species of Promecotheca 

 of the Family Hispidce, a group of the Chrysomelidce in which 

 the larvae feed in the tissues of plants and often do considerable 

 damage. Some years ago Mr. J. J. Walker, R. N., collected 

 specimens of the same species from the fronds of coconut palms 



