THE VICTORIAN NATUEALIST 17 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The March monthly meeting of this Club was held at the Royal 

 Society's Hall, on Monday evening, 30th inst , there being the 

 customary good attendance of members, and Mr. T. A. Forbes- 

 Leith, one of the Vice-Presidents, presided. 



Four new members were elected, viz., Messrs. A. K. Thompson, 

 A. W. Cole, Junr., T. J. Hughes, Junr., and Colonel T. B. 

 Hutton. 



In reply to a letter received from Dr. L. L Smith, inviting the 

 co-operation of the Club at the Intercolonial Exhibition, to open on 

 17th ill St., it was announced that several members were sending in 

 exhibits. 



The papers read, were — Part 3 of " Orchids of Victoria and their 

 Habitats," by C. French, describing the following species, Thelymitra 

 {•arnea, T. fiexuosa, T. McKibboni, Diuris pedunculata, D. aurea, 

 D m.iculata, D. palustris and D longifolia; a description, accom- 

 panied by specimens, of some fiesh water alg£e collected at Berwick 

 in November last, by Mr. H. Watts ; and an interesting description 

 of the sound organs of the common green Cicada, more familiarly 

 known as the green or singing Locust, by Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, who 

 exhibited the different portions of the insect, and explained tJie 

 method by wliich the singing noi^e was produced. 



1 he general exhiliits were numerous, and comprised Embryoes of a 

 viviparous ray, Urolophus testaceus, by A. H. S. Lucas, who found 

 them, for the first time in Victoria, on the beach recently at South 

 Melbourne; a rare, if not new species of Fungus of the genus Tulostema 

 from Sorrento, by Miss F. M. Campbell ; two large star fish, from 

 Honolulu, Mason spider and nest, and Tarantula .spider, from 

 California, also a number of young living black snakes, and 

 ])]iotographs of some of the animals in the Zoological Gardens, by 

 D. LeSouef ; Orchids, in illustration of his paper, by C. French ; 

 Marine Shells, Philine Angasi, with gizzard plates and animal in 

 spirits, Sigaretus zonalis, with animal in glycerine, S. australis, 

 and S. haliotoides, from West Indies, by J. H. Gatliff ; Two 

 Marine Shells, Pyrula perversa, from Ceylon and Concholepas 

 Peruvianus, from Peru, by T. Worcester ; Coleoptera, Lepidoptera 

 ■of the month, by C. French, Jun., and F. Spry ; Coleoptera 

 Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera for February, also Fasciola hepatica 

 or sheep fluke, by J. E. Dixon ; a large number of fruit and leaf 

 impressions from the fresh water tertiary formation near Hobart, by 

 0. A. Sayce ; Native Tomahawk, found five feet underground at 

 the Koelong tin mine. Upper Murray, by T. Cornwall ; a splendid 

 specimen of the White Goshawk, Astur Nova? Hollandi^ee, by A. 

 Coles, and Cerulean Warbler, Dendroica cserulea. Black and Yellow 

 Warbler, D. maculosa, and Song Sparrow, Melospeya melodia, by 

 T. A. Forbes-Leith. 



After a pleasant conversazione the meeting terminated. 



