BY J. BANCROFT, M.D. Tee 
rowing in the cob and among the grain. Burning of maize 
stalks may again be a reasonable act.* 
Much yet remains to be done before our knowledge of 
the various succulent-stemmed plants that support the 
Conogethes caterpillar will be complete. So far, it appears 
that the caterpillar is one that adapts itself to civilisation 
boring into many cultivated plants. It is not likely to 
disappear from our field and gardens, and cultivators would 
do well to study its life history with care. 
EXHIBIES: 
By Mr. L. A. Bernays. Fruiting branches of Antidesma 
Dallachyanum, Bazl/., the Herbert Vale Cherry, from plants 
growing at Brisbane; the pleasantly acid drupes being 
available for making jelly, and as the source of a grateful 
beverage. 
By Dr. Bancroft. Two species of moths bred from 
caterpillars destructive to the sugar-cane and an imported 
bean (Phaseolus gladiatus) respectively. 
By Mr. J. Thorpe. A copy of the record of a self- 
registering barometer, made at Brisbane during May, with 
indications of the successive meteorological conditions 
throughout Australia for the same period. 
* Burning the cane trash destroys the borer and other parasitic insects 
of the sugar-cane. This sugar-cane borer develops into a brown moth. I 
have not found the peach moth to attack the sugar-cane. 
