548 XOTES AXD EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Ramsay also exliibitecl a collection of Goleoptera, wliicli had 

 receutlj been received from Mr. Earnard, from the Dawson 

 Eiver. This interesting collection contained a great many rare, 

 .und some new, species of Buprestidcs, Cetoniidw (Schizorhiiia), 

 tScaritidcs, GlcindeUdcE, and some fine Lonr/lcorns. 



The Hon. W. Macleay exhibited specimens of Ortlwrliinus 

 Klugii, received from Mr. Holroyd, and the subject of the paper 

 previously read ; also, specimens of a beetle, a true borer of the 

 family Scoljjtidce, which had completely destroyed during the past 

 season all the figtrees in a large orchard in the county of 

 Cumberland. He pointed out that while the first of these 

 insects was an instance of injury caused by an indigenous insect 

 to an introduced plant, the other was, he feared, an instance of 

 the introduction to the country of a foreign species belonging to 

 the most destructive family of Xylophagous beetles. He thought 

 that at the next Meeting of the Society, he would be enabled to 

 give some more definite information on the subject. 



Mr. T. Tenison-AVoods, exhibited a Stone Tomahawk, said 

 to be from Northern Australia, but recognised by its smooth 

 make and general appearance as belonging to the Solomon Islands. 



Mr. K. H. Bennett exhibited a nest of three eggs of the 

 ground graucalus {Pferopodocijs j^^^^siauella) . The nest is 

 remarkable for its size and compactness ; usually the birds build 

 but a scanty shallow structure of grass and cobwebs ; the specimen 

 exhibited, on the other hand, was a large structure about 10 inches 

 in diameter, very deep, and composed of a large quantity of wool, 

 cobwebs, and grass closely and neatly interwoven. The eggs 

 w^ere three in number, of a rich asparagus-green, with indistinct 

 dull brownish freckles and spots. 



Prefessor Stephens read the following note from Dr. Woolls 

 relating to a grass (Fanicum spectahiJeJ on which thei'ehad been 

 some discussion at the preceding meeting of the Society : — " It 

 is not generally known that the grass cultivated under that name 



