BY F. RATTE, ENG. ARTS AND MANUF., PARIS. 1169 



The larvEG are attacked by small black flies which perhaps 

 deposit an egg or two in the young larva, the product of which 

 feeds on it and ultimately takes its place. I found the pupa of 

 this fly in a black hairy cocoon, but have lost the perfect insect. 

 Similarly some Coccidce are attacked by small Dii^tera and 

 Hymenoftera. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



The Hon. James Norton exhibited male and female cones of 

 Araucaria Cooki, now to be seen in full fructification in the 

 North Eastern Division of Hyde Park. Mr. Norton observed 

 that this tree in its earliest stages was not distinguishable from 

 Araucaria excelsa, but when full grown it was more dwarf and 

 compact. As in the case of A. excelsa, the male cones grow at the 

 ends of the leaf spires, and the female are produced on the higher 

 branches, but the latter are apparently smaller and more clustered. 



Dr. George Hurst exhibited an egg of Scythrops Novca, Hollandicii, 

 taken from the ovarium of a bird shot this month at Kempsey, 

 He mentioned that the only other specimen of this egg ever 

 recorded was obtained in a similar manner and described in 

 Gould's Handbook of the Birds of Australia. 



The President exhibited, for Mons. F. Ratte, a number of 

 beautiful drawings, illustrative of his papers ; and also a box 

 containing carefully mounted specimens of the insect shells 

 referred to, which have been presented to the Australian Museum. 



The President also exhibited four specimens of the shell-like 

 covering of a species of Phryganea. These are built up entirely of 

 small round nodules of brown iron ore, fastened together by a 

 silky web. They were obtained on the north end of New 

 Caledonia, by Dr. Storer, in a creek flowing over rocks composed 

 of iron ore. 



The President submitted a lithograph of a new fossil plant, 

 found by Mr. R. M. Johnston, of Hobart, in the carboniferous 

 beds of the Jerusalem Basin, Tasmania. It has been named by 

 the discovex-er Lepidostrobus Miilleri. 



