Xov , 1908.] The VlCTOKlAN NATURALIST. 99 



female form amaiiga, Boisd., of P. ormenus, Gue'rin, inhabiting 

 New Guinea and the adjacent islands. He also recorded true 

 P. ormenus from Australian limits for the first time, and referred 

 to some specimens from the Woodlark Is, 



Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., remarked on the interesting nature 

 of the paper, and said that the author was to be congratulated on 

 the good work he is doing in Australian Lepidoptera. 



2. By Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., Government Botanist, New 

 South Wales, entitled " Records of Victorian Botanists " (com- 

 municated by Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.Sc.) 



In the absence of the author the paper was read by Prof Ewart. 

 The author gave brief notes of the various persons, now deceased, 

 who had contributed to a knowledge of Victorian botany, including 

 several who had devoted their attention to sea-weeds only. He 

 remarked how very necessary it was for future workers that such 

 details should be placed on record, and regretted that in several 

 instances he had been unable to obtain the information he desired. 

 Several of the persons referred to had been more or less promi- 

 nently connected with the Club, and the mention of their names 

 aroused considerable enthusiasm. 



Dr. T. S. Hall, M.A., referred to the early work of Bunce at 

 the Geelong Botanic Gardens, and Mr. F. Pitcher and Mr. F. G. 

 A. Barnard to the work of the late Mr. J. G. Luehmann, the 

 latter expressing the hope that some day an adequate history of 

 the collections in the National Herbarium would be placed on 

 record. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. R. W. Armitage. — Live specimens, under the micro- 

 scope, of a Protozodn, probably one of the Tentaculifera epizoic 

 on branchiae and pleopods of the fresh-vVater crustacean Kooniinga 

 cursor, Sayce. 



By Mr. G. Coghill. — AVild flowers from the Ringwood excursion, 

 including orchid Pterostylis harbata. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — A scale-insect, Rhizococcus leca7iioideSj 

 Green, new to science, found at Sandringham, July, 1908. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — A rare Victorian shtll, Haliotis con'ica- 

 pora, Peron, with specimens of the common Haliotis iLCbvosa, 

 Mart., with which it is sometimes confounded ; also Siphonalia 

 dilalata, Quoy and Gaimard, from Frankston. 



By Mr. J. T. Hamilton. — Flowering spike of orchid Dendvo- 

 bium speciosum. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S. — Branchlet with flowers of 

 " Native Beech " or " Myrtle," Fagus Cuitninghami. 



By Mr. A. H. E. Mattingley. — A live lizard, Amphiholurus 

 iiiuricatus, White, commonly known as " Bloodsucker," from 

 Ringwood. 



By Mr. O. A. Sayce. — Specimens of fresh-water crustacean, 



