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be mentioned as naturalised plants in a flora of the colony, which 
statement caused some little discussion. 
3. By Mr. H. Watts, ‘‘Notes on Hemipterous Insects.” These 
referred principally to the microscopic species of the sub-order 
Heteroptera, the so called “plant bugs.” The paper was illustrated 
by some beautifully prepared slides for the microscope. The writer’s 
statement as to the position of the wings in the Heteroptera was 
questioned by several of the members present. 
4. By Mr. ©. French, F.L.S., “The Orchids of Victoria,” Part 
IX., describing the following species of the genus Pter ostylis, ViZ.3 
concinna, pedunculata, nana, parviflora, barbata, mutica, rufa, 
longifolia, and vittata. Dried specimens of each plant were 
exhibited. 
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5. By Dr. Lucas, “New Fijian Lepidoptera.” This bemg 
principally a list of the various species, was taken as read. . 
The following were the principal exhibits:—By Miss F. M. 
Campbell, a collection of about 350 species of Victorian fungi, dried 
and mounted, twenty of them being hitherto unrecorded for Victorias 
by Mr. G. Coghill, beetles, Catadroma Lacordairet, and Agahus 
species; by Mr. A. Coles, fish, Victorian flounder, and red mullet, 
stuffed by new process, also fine specimen of the European eagle or 
horned owl, (mounted); by Mr. E. Dombrain, qasp’s and hornet’s 
nests from Murray district, and some minute frogs; by Mr. T. 
A. Forbes-Leith, the little sulphur-crested cockatoo, (Cacatua 
sulphurea), from island of Timor; by Mr. ©. French, orchids in 
illustration of paper, two humming-birds, Paphiosa Helene, and 
Myrtis jfaunie, also flowers of Sturt’s Desert Pea, Clianthus 
Dampieri; by Mr. E. H. Hennell, copper ore from South Australia, 
silver ore from Silverton, also. quartz crystals, etc., fossils from 
Tenby, South Wales, two volumes of a manuscript week on British 
Lepidoptera with hand- painted illustrations; by Mr. G. R. Hill, 
small crustacea, “whale food” from Oamaru, New Zealand; by 
Master G. E. Hill, Victorian aid New Zealand coleoptera; by 
Master H. Hill, Victorian and New Zealand lepidoptera; by Mr. 
H. Kennon, a live turtle; by Dr. Lucas, twenty-four new species of 
lepidoptera from Fiji: by My. A, H. S. Lueas, Victorian shells, 
species of Haliotis by Mr. J. McKibbin, sixty species of Victorian 
lepidoptera; by Mr. A. J. North, eggs of rare bird, Apterya 
Australis, from South Island, New Zealand; by Mr. J. E. Prince, 
“Moore’s Nature-printed British Ferns,” two yols.; by Mr. F. 
Reader, orchids and ferns collected in neighbourhood of Paris 
by M. Brunetti; by Mr. G. Rose, fossil sharks’ teeth from 
Cheltenham, fossil wood from New South Wales; by Mr. C. A. 
Tepp, plants, ete. of Utricularia dichotoma; by Mr. H. Watts, 
