84 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXIV. 



Each speaker was followed with keen interest, and the views 

 exhibited were greatly admired. 



Mr. J. Searle, hon. lanternist, showed, for purposes of com- 

 parison, a series of views of the Jenolan Caves, New South 

 Wales. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. J. W. Audas. — Acacia verticillata. Willd., tvpe form ; 

 Acacia vriiciUata, var. ovoirlea, Benth., collected at Frankston, 

 3/8/07. Exhibited on account of having been found grovving in 

 a prostrate form amongst grass, the type form of A. verticillata 

 being bushy, tall, and erect. 



Bv Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Growing fern, Botrychium ternatum. 

 Original plant, collected 20 vears ago at Oakleigh. 



By Mr. C. F. Cole. — Mounted specimens of Dollar-bird, 

 Eurysfovius australis, Swains., from Kerrisdale, Goulburn River, 

 Victoria. 



Exhibited by Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, Ph.D., &:c.—Cassinia 

 longifolia, R. Br., wrongly determined as C. Imvis, R. Br., and 

 also wronglv recorded as new for Victoria in the Vict. I^at., vol. x., 

 p. 132 (1883); Cassinia lonqifoHa, R. Br., type form; Cassinia 

 Icevis, R. Br., type form ; Cassinia acitlfata, R. Br., erroneously 

 determined as C. Icevis, R. Br., and recorded as new for the 

 south of Victoria in Vict. Nat., vol. x., p. 160 (1884) ; Cassinia 

 acuhata, R. Br., type form. Distribution of C. Icevis, R. Br., 

 South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Four species of Ant-nest Beetles — 

 Kershawia rugiceps, Lea, n. sp. ; Kepharis alata, Castel. ; 

 Trilohium myrmecophihim. Lea, n. sp. ; Dahra myrmecophilum, 

 Olifif., from the Mallee, collected by Messrs. J. C Goudie and C. 

 French, jun. 



By Miss L. Horner. — Nest of Mistletoe-bird, Dicceum 

 hirundinaceum, Shaw, from Doncaster. 



By A. H. E. Mattingley. — Eggs of Plumed Egret, Mesophoyx 

 plumifera, Gld., taken by him at Mathoura, N.S.W., 9/11/06. 

 Previously unrecorded for Australia. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher, on behalf of the Director Melbourne Botanic 

 Gardens. — Blooms of the following acacias now flowering in the 

 Gardens : — Acacia cultriformis, A. Cunn., Knife-leaved Acacia, 

 New South Wales and Queensland; A. elongata. '$>\thex. Long- 

 podded Acacia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tas- 

 mania ; A. Jonesii, F. v. M. and Maiden, Jones's Acacia, New 

 South Wales ; A. juniperina, Willd., Prickly Wattle, Victoria, 

 New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania ; A. leprosa, Sieber, 

 var. elongata, Seville Wattle, Victoria ; A. myrtifoHa, Willd., 

 Myrtle-leaved Acacia, Australia and Tasmania ; A. strigosa, 

 Link., Hairy Acacia. Western Australia ; A. urophylla, Benth., 

 Tail-leaved Acacia, Western Australia. 



