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usual clay. When gathered, tlie gum is soft and plastic, but, after a time, 

 becomes exceedingly hard and tough, with the result that when the wasps 

 emerge from the pupae they are unable to cut their way out of the gum-cells 

 and so perish. Numbers of dead wasps were to be found within the gum- 

 cells. — Mr. T.Harvey Johnston exhibited specimens and recorded the occur- 

 rence in New South Wales, in most cases for the first time, of a number of Ento- 

 zoa, chiefly from the human subject or associated at some stage therewith, 

 including Taenia solium lAnn.., audits cystic stage Cysticercus cellulosae^ from 

 the pig, Taenia saginata Goeze, Dihothriocephalus latus (liinn.), Moniezia alba 

 Perr., from the sheep, Schistosomum haematobium Bilharz, Ascaris lumbri- 

 coides Linn., Oxyurus vermicularis Linn., and Trichocephalus trichiurus 

 (Linn., syn. T. dispar E,ud.). — Mr. Tillyard exhibited a series of four 

 adults of Camacinia othello rj^, a beautiful dragonfly from Cooktown. The 

 specimens exhibited were taken by Mr. E. A. C. Olive, of that town, and 

 are the only ones known besides the type-male, and a pair from Prince of 

 Wales' Island, Torres Straits. — Mr. C. F. Las er on, by permission of the 

 Curator, Technological Museum, exhibited a series of Graptolites from a 

 new locality near Cooma, The specimens were found in a black slate, out- 

 cropping on a creek which crosses the Adaminaby Road, 11 miles from 

 Cooma. The fossils are well preserved as white films, which show out pro- 

 minently against the dark colour of the slate. The chief genera represented 

 were Diplograptus Climaeograptus , and Dicellograptus. The strata of the 

 locality are probably a northern continuation of those of the Berridale locality, 

 from which Graptolites have been recorded. An interesting fossil Pelecypod, 

 belonging probably to a new genus, was also exhibited. This specimen was 

 collected from the Wandrawandian Series at Burrier, on the Shoalhaven 

 River. — Mr. A. G. Hamilton showed what appeared to be a large casting 

 of an earthworm of considerable dimensions, collected under an overhanging 

 sandstone rock at Willoughby, on the surface of sandy soil a few inches 

 deep, with a subsoil of white clay. Also a branchlet of a Casuarina growing 

 on a sandhill near the beach at Corrimal , remarkable for the fact that the 

 rudimentary leaves, instead of being arranged in whorls, formed a spiral 

 extending the whole length of the branchlet; the grooves following the same 

 spiral. Sections for the microscope of the spiral branch, and of a nominal 

 branch were also exhibited showing that the fibrovaseular bundles as well as 

 the sclerenchyma were also arranged in a spiral manner, instead of straight 

 up and down the branchlet. — 2) Observations on the Development of the 

 Marsupial Skull. By Prof. R. Broom, M.D.,Sc., C.M.Z.S. Corresponding 

 Member. — A fairly complete series of the diprotodont Trichosurus vulpecula, 

 and an interesting early stage of the polyprotodont Dasyurus viverrinus^ have 

 been studied. The paper will be illustrated with eight plates. — 3) Notes 

 on the Synonymy and Distribution of certian Species of Australian Coleoptera, 

 with Descriptions of new Species of Tenebrionidae. By H. J. Carter, B.A., 

 F.E.S. — The paper comprises notes upon the synonymy and distribution 

 of a number of species referable to the three families, Buprestidae, Tene- 

 brionidae and Cerambycidae , accumulated during a recent visit to Europe, 

 and especially to the Museums in Brussels, Paris, London, and Oxford; 

 together with the descriptions of twentyone species of Tenebrionidae proposed 

 as new. 



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