164 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXIV. 



By Mr. H. J. Coles.— Lime sticks, dagger of Cassowary 

 bone, and ear-rings, from New Guinea ; shield from Trobian 

 Island ; Black-shouldered Kite, Elanus axillaris (female), from 

 Kew. 



By Mr. E. J. Dixon. — Specimens of the longicorn beetle Ura- 

 canthus hivitta, Newm., found breeding in Tree Lucerne, Gytisus 

 jjroliferus, used for hedges, in Oakleigh and Brighton districts — 

 a new food plant for this species ; also 1 1 species of Victorian 

 longicorn beetles, with names of their food plants. 



By Professor A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, Ph.D. — Gastrulohium grandi- 

 Jloruvi, F. V. M., loc, i6o miles from Cairns, Queensland, in 

 illustration of Mr. French's paper. With one exception this is 

 the only Gastrolobium found out of W. Australia, and the only 

 Queensland species. 



By Mr. C. French, F.L.S., F.E.S.— Photographs of N. Queens- 

 land scenery in illustration of his paper. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — New longicorn beetle, Macrones bestii, 

 male and female, collected by Messrs. D. Best and C. French, 

 jun., at the Alps and Buffalo Ranges, Victoria. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Rare marine shells of genus Cyprsea : — 

 Cyprcea similis, Gray, S. Africa ; C. algoeiisis. Gray, S. Africa ; 

 C. j)yrifo7-mis, Gray, Ceylon ; C. walkeri, Gray, N. Australia ; 

 C. walkeri, var. rossiteri, Dant., N. Caledonia ; C. coffea, Sow., 

 Lifu ; C. goodalli, Gray, Panmotos Is. ; C. sulcidentata, Gray, 

 Sandwich Is. ; C. tessellata, Swain, Sandwich Is. ; G. physis, 

 Brocch., Algeria ; C. becki, Gask. ; C oweni, Sow., Mauritius. 



By Mr. G. A. Keartland. — Skins of Jardine's Campephaga, 

 Edoliisoma tenuirostre, from New South Wales and Victoria, 

 showing considerable variation in plumage. 



By Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S. — Specimens, male and female, of 

 butterfly Ogyrls waterhouseri, Baker, taken at the Grampians, 

 November, 1887. 



By Mr. J. S. Kitson. — Young mantids, reared from cocoon 

 taken at Williamstown. 



By Mr. A. Mattingley. — White-headed Stilt, Himantopus 

 leucocephalus, Gould, from Mathoura, New South Wales. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Blooms of two late-flowering acacias, from 

 Melbourne Botanic Gardens ; Acacia elata, A. Cunningham, 

 Pepper-tree Wattle, New South Wales; A. implexa, Bentham, 

 Whitewood Acacia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland ; 

 also larvae of insect destroying Nymphseas in the new lily lake at 

 Melbourne Botanic Gardens. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



