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Mr. J. Searle asked if the Ceratium, one of the Peridinea^, had 

 been recorded for Victoria. 



Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., rephed that he had noticed it in the 

 water of the Yan Yean Reservoir. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. E. S. Anthony. — Specimens of stone implements from 

 Barclay Table-land, Northern Territory, comprising axe-head, 

 flaked knives (with bark sheaths), chipped knives (used by 

 lubras), spear-heads (one with portion of reed to show method 

 of hafting), churingas, adze (for grooving boomerangs, pitchis, 

 &c.), also drawings on limestone rocks by natives. 



By Mr. E. O. Armytage. — Coleoptera and Lepidoptera from 

 Baw Baw excursion, including the butterflies Papilio macleay- 

 anus, Leach, Xenica correce, OIL, X. kershawii, Miskin, and 

 Heteronympha solandri, Waterhouse ; also the beetles Stigmodera 

 dimidata, Carter, and Trypocharia namata, Newm., from Moe. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Growing plant in bloom of Aster 

 celmisia, from Mt. Erica, Baw Baw, and other botanical 

 specimens, including Epacris hreviflora and Richea Gunnii. 



By Mr. R. A. Bastow. — Lichens from Camperdown — Ramalina 

 EcJcloni, Spreng., Parmelia parietina, L.. Theloschistes chrysop- 

 thalmus, L., and Physcia dUatata. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Orchids Prasophyllum brevilabre 

 and P. Sutfoni (rare) — the latter recently described from Mt. 

 Kosciusko ; also Thelyinitra venosa (new for Victoria), collected 

 by exhibitor, Mt. Baw Baw plateau, January, 1914 ; also a 

 photograph of a remarkable scale-insect, Pulvinaria teda, var. 

 alba, also collected by the exhibitor, near Walhalla. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Marine shells. Tapes litteraia, L., 

 N.-W. Australia ; T, euglyptus, Phil., Japan ; T. graeffei, Dunk., 

 Japan ; T. papilionacea. Sow., Ceylon. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S. — SpirotcBuia condensata, a fresh- 

 water alga, from Mt. Baw Baw, from Sphagnum collected by 

 Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, January, 1914. 



By Mr. E. E. Pescott, F.L.S. — Growing plant in flower of 

 Cephalotus follicttlaris. Lab. (Saxifragaceae), the Pitcher-plant 

 of King George's Sound, Western AustraHa. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher. — Blooms from plants now flowering in the 

 Melbourne Botanical Gardens — Castanospermum australe, A. 

 Cunn.. Moreton Bay Chestnut or Bean-tree, New South Wales 

 and Queensland ; Cevatopetahim gummiferum, Sm., the New 

 South Wales Christmas-bush, New South Wales ; and Hiimea 

 elegans, Sm., Plumed Humea, Victoria and New South Wales. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Ceratium, sp. (Peridinese), in fresh water 

 from Trawool ; also crustaceans, Phreatoicus australis, Talitrus 

 sylvaticus, and Oniscics punctatum, from Baw Baw excursion. 



