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Mr. E. Clieel exhibited normal specimens of a Puff-ball (/iom- 

 stella aspera Lloyd), together with other examples of what 

 appeared to be the same species, having an outer shell or coating 

 of cemented sand and other particles of earth adhering to the 

 peridium. He suggested that the original olive-brown coloured 

 spores had been ejected or washed out by rain, and the gleba 

 or capillitiura left intact within the peridium; but that was now 

 infested with another species of fungus resembling the moulds, 

 which, together with the sterile base of the capillitium or gleba, 

 was of a light slate-like colour, with an abundance of spores, so 

 that tiie whole mass of hyphse somewhat resembled the kernel 

 of a nut. The specimens were found at Hill Top, on the Southern 

 line, usually on the surface or partially buried in the soil. Speci- 

 mens identical with those exhibited, were collected at AVombeyan 

 Caves in October, 1905, by Messrs. J. H. Maiden, R. H. Cam- 

 bage, and E. C. Andrews, and are in the National Herbarium 

 Collection, bearing a note from the late Mr. A. Grant as follows : 

 — "I have examined the 'Insect-cocoons,' and found them to 

 consist of a hard outer mud-wall; within this, and in close appo- 

 sition to it, is a second wall composed of papier-macie material 

 next to this is a soft, felt-like mass of soft material which, on 

 being disturbed, sends up a cloud of very fine dust. This dust, 

 on being examined under the microscope, is found to be composed 

 of a; mass of fungus gonidia. This felt-like material completely 

 envelops an inner, hard kernel of considerable size, and on wash- 

 ing away the gonidia, a number of effete gonidiophores are 

 revealed, which have grown from the kernel, and are still com- 

 pletely attached to it." In the Society's Proceedings for 1905, 

 p. 351, Mr. R. T. Baker recorded some notes on apparently the 

 same kind of objects, collected at Wombeyan, Taralga, by Mr. H. 

 J. O'Neill. 



Mr. L. Harrison exhibited specimens of, and offered remarks 

 upon — (a) Two species of Pauropoda, an Order of minute myria- 

 pods not hitherto recorded from Australia. The larger of the 

 two species shares with Stylopaurojnis pedtinculatus of Europe 

 the distinction of being the largest known pauropods, both 



