686 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt exliibited specimens of Nut-grass {Ct/perua 

 rotundns, Linn.) infested b}" a scale insect which had been killing off 

 this noxious sedge in the Singleton district during the last three 

 years, but had been brought under the notice of the Department 

 of Agriculture only during the present season. Mr. E. E. Green, 

 of Ceylon, to whom specimens had been sent for identification, 

 says of it, "Your coccid proves to be an Antorn'tia very closely 

 allied to A. purpurea, Signoret, but distinguished by the presence 

 of a greater number of spinnerets scattered over the derm, and 

 by some small conical processes on the anal lobes. I am calling it 

 Aiitonina australis.'' 



Mr. Maiden sent for exhibition a photograph of the tablet 

 erected man}" years ago in memory of Richard Cunningham, at 

 Lower Tabratong, near Dandaloo, N.S.W. The stone bears an 

 inscription as follows : — " Richard Cunningham, Government 

 Botanist of this Colony attached to an exploring expedition 

 under command of Major Mitchell, Surveyor-General, wandered 

 in his enthusiasm for botanical investigation from his companions, 

 and losing himself in this locality of the Bogan River, fell into 

 the hands of the Aboriginals, by w^hom he was unfortunately 

 killed about 25th April, 1835, in the 42nd year of his age. This 

 tablet is erected to his memory by a vote of the Parliament of 

 New South Wales throughout the . . . lands by S. R. Daniel 

 . . . Wellington district." [Some of the letters in the conclud- 

 ing clause are illegible.] 



Mr. Fletcher showed branchlets of Eucalyptus punctata, DC, 

 gathered a few days ago near Ryde, the foliage of which exhibited 

 much more noticeable quantities of manna than one usually 

 finds on trees of this species in the neighbourhood of Sydney; 

 and he said that it was extremely interesting to observe the 

 avidity with which honey-eaters of two species {Acanthorhynchus 

 tenuirostris and a species of Ptilotis) availed themselves of this 

 addition to their ordinary food suppl3^ 



He also showed a copy of "Voyages de Corneille le Bruyn par 

 la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales '*' (1725), the 



