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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. T. Steel exhibited the distal half of a humerus of the 

 extinct Marsupial, Diprotodon australis, Owen, from Darling 

 Downs, Q. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of cherries from the Armidale 

 district, showing the effect of the depredations of the Rutherglen 

 Bug (Nysius venator, Bergr.); the pest, however, is amenable to 

 treatment by the cyanide-fumigation process. Also commercial 

 samples of carrot seed infested with the destructive small beetle, 

 Sitodrepa (Anobium) panicea, Linn., the eggs of which were 

 included with the seed when made up into packets. 



Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited a specimen of, and contributed the 

 following Note on, Nacerdes melanura, Schm., a European beetle 

 not previously recorded from Australia. "This beetle, which 

 belongs to the family CEderneridm of the Heteromerous section of 

 the Coleoptera, is widely distributed throughout the maritime 

 regions of Europe (including the south coast of England), but 

 appears to be rare inland. I have found it plentifully on the 

 coasts of Kent and Essex in early summer, also at Gibraltar. 

 In its early stages it lives in dry and partially decayed timber, 

 such as wood-paving, old railway sleepers used as fences, old 

 piles on the sea beach, &c, but rarely in such abundance as to 

 cause any appreciable damage. Nacerdes melamira has quite 

 recently been recorded by Mr. G. C. Champion from Cape Town, 

 specimens having been sent to him by Mr. L. Peringuey from 

 that locality. The example now exhibited was taken by me on 

 board H.M.S. Ringarooma at Garden Island, on November 18th, 

 it having flown in to the light. Although an obvious importation, 

 it is a species which is quite likely to establish itself permanently 

 here, and its first appearance in Australia appears to be worthy 

 of record." 



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