210 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Rev. W. W. Watts showed an abnormal form of the common 

 Bracken Fern [Pteridium aquilinum). 



Mr, Froggatt exhibited a series of specimens of the Golden 

 Stagbeetle, Lamprima latreillei, cut out of a dead log of Pepper- 

 mint Gum {Eucalyptus sp.) from Salisbury Court, near Uralla. 

 This log was portion of a tree-trunk cut down last September, 

 the bark having dried onto the sap wood, in which the larvae 

 had been feeding before pupating in the cavities eaten out of the 

 sap wood. The perfect beetles were cut out on March 24th, and 

 as these beetles do not appear on the foliage of the Eucalypts 

 until well into the summer (about December), it is remarkable 

 to find them as perfect beetles torpid all through the winter- 

 months. Also, on behalf of Miss F. Sulman, leaves of a culti- 

 vated Waratah attacked by a leaf- mining larva of most remark- 

 able form, probably a dipterous maggot. 



