ix, ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



A collection of plants made at Wallumbilla and 

 Charleville, Western Queensland, by Mr. E. W. Bick, was. 

 exhibited by Mr. G. T. White. The collection included 

 specimens of Trichinxum eucocoma and Angophora 

 melanoxi/lon which had not previously been collected ia 

 Queensland. 



Mr. H. A. Longman exhibited a centipede^ 

 Cormocephalus aurantiipes New., which he had observed 

 masticate and devour several of its own young whilst ia 

 captivity. 



Dr. T. Harvey Johnston exhibited a specimen of the 

 common littorinid Bembicium melawisloma from Caloundra, 

 in which the whorls were not fused externally. This was 

 the only case obser\'ed, though some thousands of specimena 

 of the species have come under notice. He also exhibited 

 a marine leech. Pontobdella sp. from Caloundra taken 

 attached to the under surface of stones in rock pools, also 

 on sharks Orectolobus maculatus and 0. ornatus : and 

 lying free in a distended condition in the water along 

 the shores of the beach. 



Dr. Shirley exhibited : (I) Embothrium WickJiamii 

 F.v.M. var. j^innata Moore and Betche, found on the edges 

 of the MacPherson Hange, known as the Red Silky Oak 

 and having a pink, well-grained timber suitable for cabinet 

 making. (2) Sarcopteryx stipitata Radlk. from Roberts' 

 Plateau, provides a good timber for coach-making. Its 

 locality was not previously known. 



Mr. C. D. Gillies read a paper on "' The componeats 

 per month of the Rhizopodan Fauna of a Brisbane Lagoon." 

 Dr Johnston, Messrs. White and Coll edge commented on 

 the paper. 



Messrs. F. Smith and C. T. White read a paper " An 

 Interim Census of the Cyanophoric Plants in the Queens- 

 land Flora." 



The authors listed 69 indigenous plants scattered 

 through 22 natural orders. Twenty-three Queensland 

 plants are recorded for the first time as yielding hydrocyanic 

 arid. Suspected poison plants were the subject of especial 

 attention. 



