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twenty small, greyish eggs had been deposited. Later on 

 these hatch into curious parti-coloured larva, which are 

 clustered together in the same manner as young scorpions, 

 but unUke in the respect that they do not cling to their 

 mother's body. If the beetle be removed the larvae at once 

 separate and seek other shelter. The reason for this atten- 

 tion may be to protect the eggs or young from the male 

 beetle, which is generally present under the same log. 



Mr. D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., forwarded a note stating that 

 a pair of Lyre-birds, Memira superba, caught in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Sydney, N.S.W., are doing very well at the Mel- 

 bourne Zoological Gardens. They are last year's birds, and 

 therefore the male has not yet got the adult tail, but some of 

 the feathers are showing. They have become very tame, and 

 will feed out of one's hands. 



Mr. C. French contributed a note with reference to the 

 English Skylark, which in some districts is becoming a nuisance 

 to the market gardeners by destroying young plants of 

 cabbages, &c. 



Mr. H. Whitmore read a newspaper paragraph recording 

 the finding of the remains of an opossum completely enclosed 

 in wax, in a hive of wild bees. Mr. A. D. Hardy said that he 

 had heard of a similar case. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. K. A. Bastow. — Victorian Hepaticae (Liverworts), in 

 illustration of his postponed paper. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Blooms of Buckinghamia celsissima, 

 F. V. M., Ivory Curl-flower, Queensland ; Hakea verrucosa, 

 F. v. M., Warty-fruited Hakea, and H. cristata, R. Br., Crested 

 Hakea, both from Western Australia ; also berried specimens 

 of Eugenia Smithii, Poiret, " Lilly-pilly," Victoria, New South 

 Wales, &c., and E. cyanocarpa, F. v, M., " Blue-fruited 

 Myrtle," New South Wales — all grown in Botanic Gardens, 

 Melbourne. 



By ]\lr. P. K. H. St. John.— Herbarium specimens in various 

 stages of Eucalyplus cinerea, F. v. M., var. mullifiora. J. H. 

 Maiden, collected by exhibitor in Bayswater district, 6th June, 

 1914. 



By Dr. C. S. Sutton. — Orchid, Pteroslylis reflexa, K. Br., 

 collected by exhibitor on the Silurian formation west of 

 Whittlesea, 25th April, 1914. 



By Mr. J Searle. — A rare Entomostracan, Daphnia 

 lumhollzi, Sars., only taken two or three times in V'ictoria, 

 recorded also from Queensland, Central Africa, and Western 

 Asia. Exhibited by exhibitor some two years ago. but then 

 unnamed. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



