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said that the destruction was no doubt caused by the larvae of 

 one of the ladybirds of the genus Paropsis. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Mr. J . Shephard said that whilst visiting Brisbane recently he 

 found an opportunity, through the kindness of Mr. Colledge, of 

 the Field Club there, to visit some of the ponds in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the city. In a swamp near Indooroopilly were 

 found large numbers of free-swimming clusters of rotifers, and he 

 succeeded in identifying them as Lacinularia natans and L. race- 

 movala, Thorpe. The former species is very common around 

 Melbourne, but the latter is unknown in Victoria. L. natans 

 is here often associated with L. elliptica, a species first described 

 in the Victorian Naturalist, and although undoubtedly distinct 

 from the Queensland L. racemovala, approaches it fairly closely. 

 L. elliptica, it may be mentioned, has been reported from South 

 Africa. A fortnight later some of the specimens were living in 

 Melbourne, but as none had survived until to-night, he was 

 unable to exhibit them as intended. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. J. W. Audas, F.L.S — Specimen of the fungus, Mylitta 

 aiistralis, Berk., commonly known as Native Bread, collected 

 by the exhibitor at Nar Nar Goon, Gippsland, 26th July, 1913. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Wild-flowers from Frankston, 

 including Pultencea stricta. 



By Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S. — Thin rock-shce, showing well- 

 developed foliation and crumpling in clay-slate, from Germany. 



By Mr. Edwin Cheel, of the National Herbarium, Sydney. — 

 Avena barbata, Brot., *' Barbed Oat-grass," collected by the 

 exhibitor in Government House Domain, Melbourne, 9th 

 January, 1913. Not previously recorded as growing wild in 

 Victoria. It is a native of Europe, and may be classed as an 

 exotic not yet sufficiently established to be considered natural- 

 ized. Cystisus linifolius. Lam., Flax Broom, collected by 

 the exhibitor, between Pakenham and Tynong, Victoria, nth 

 January, 1913. It is a native of the West Mediterranean 

 regions, and has already been recorded as a naturalized alien in 

 Victoria. 



By Dr. A. Morrison, M.D. — Two painted panels (in oils), 

 showing coloured illustrations of some Western Australian wild- 

 flowers. 



By Mr. P. R. H. St. John. — A complete series of specimens of 

 Eucalyptus globulus, var. St. Johni, in illustration of paper by 

 Mr. R. T. Baker, F.L.S. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



