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Maur., and has been introduced into and become naturalized in 

 South Africa. The characters derived from the styles and 

 stamens for separating these two species (as mentioned by Betche 

 in Agric. Gazette JV.S.W., xii., pp. 232, 233), are not constant, 

 as has been pointed out by Battandier in his paper — 'Sur 

 quelques cas d' He'te'romorphisme ' (Bull. Soc. Bot., France, 

 xxxiii., p. 238). The sections of the leaves and the seeds of both 

 species are identical." 



Dr. Ferdinand Pax, Professor of Botany at the University of 

 Breslau, and author of the article on the Iridacege in Engler and 

 Prantl's " Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien," has also named the 

 specimens submitted to him E. btilbocodium. 



This clearly settles the name as Romulea btilbocodium, and at 

 the same time justifies the naming of the late Baron von Mueller, 

 since, as the Director points out, the one name is conspecific 

 with the other. It should induce members of the Field 

 Naturalists' Club to study this imported weed more carefully, and 

 to observe, particularly in the flower, the variations to which it is 

 subject. In the specimens forwarded by me the anthers were a 

 shade longer than the style-branches. 



Food Plants of Victorian Longicorn Beetles. — The 

 following list of localities and food plants for the longicorn 

 beetles, exhibited by me at the January meeting, may be of 

 interest to collectors : — 

 Uracanthus triangularis, Hope — Carrum. Food plants, Banksia 



integrifolia and Hakea nodosa. 

 U. triangularis (var.) — Frankston. F.p., Acacia moUissima. 

 U. simulans, Pasc. — You Yangs and Gippsland. F.p., Aster 



glandulosus. 

 U. simulans (var.) — Kororoit Creek. F.p., Correa speciosa (var.) 

 U. strigosus — Epping. F.p , Casuarina quadrivalvis. 

 U. bivitta, Newm. F.p., Furze, Ulex Europseus; Common Broom, 



Genista scoparia; Native Hop, Daviesia latifolia, and Vim- 



inaria denudata. 

 Distichocera par, Newm. — Greensborough. F.p., Leptospeimum 



lanigerum. 

 Piesarthrius marginellus, Hope. F.p., Acacia longifolia and A. 



mollissima. 

 Hesthesis cingulata, Kirby — Ringwood. F.p., Eucalyptus amyg- 



dalina (saplings). 

 Symphyletes pulverulans, Bdv. — Frankston, &c. F.p., Acacia 



mollissima. 

 S. decipiens, Pasc. — Frankston, &c. F.p., Acacia longifolia, 



A. armata, and A. verticillata. 

 S. nigrovirens, Don.— Frankston, &c. F.p., Acacia mollissima. 

 — J. E. Dixon. Richmond, i3lh January, 1908. 



