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localities, in great abundance. It is quite easily recognised, even 

 if mixed with the fry of other species, as it possesses the distinc- 

 tive appearance of the adult down to a very small size. In the 

 fry of S. maculata the dark blotches are relatively much larger 

 than they are in the adult of that species, while the young of 

 S. ciliata possess small dark blotches, which entirely disappear 

 before the age of maturity is reached." 



Mr. L. Harrison exhibited an egg of the Pallid Cuckoo {Cuculns 

 pallidus Lath.) taken by Mr. R. L. Harrison at Manly on 29th 

 October, 1905. The female was flushed from the ground and. 

 the egg picked up at the spot from which she rose. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a series of specimens obtained at 

 Bondi by Mr. H. Ashton, illustrating the life-history of 

 Fauropsalta annulata Goding ^ Froggatt. The insect is the most 

 common of the small Cicadas; and, in the larval and pupal stages, 

 it lives on the roots of grass and of young wattles. He also 

 showed two fine examples of the curious neuropterous insect, 

 Croce attenuata Froggatt (Fam. Nemopteridm), forwarded by Mrs. 

 Black, of North Queensland. 



Mr. Gurney showed a series of insects collected at Coolabah, 

 Western New South Wales. Worthy of note were the larvae 

 and adults of a beetle {Bryachus squamicollis, Pasc.) which feed 

 on the bark of Eucalypts; and also a cluster of small brown 

 capsules, presumably the egg-cases, found on the trunk of a tree; 

 three eggs were laid in each, apparently, as there were three 

 young larvae enclosed in each capsule. Some of the large mud 

 cells of the wasp Felopceus Icetus were also shown, together with 

 a large green parasite (Fam. Chrysiclidce) taken from one of the 

 cells. 



Mr. Hedley exhibited a pelagic crustacean, Phronima seden- 

 taria Forsk., which he had found stranded on Maroubra beach in 

 August last. It was then alive and breeding in a ' Phronima 

 house,' formed of the bell or test of the ascidian Pyrosoma. Mr. 

 A. McCulloch, who determined the specimen, informed him that 



