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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt showed a specimen of a beautiful neurop- 

 terous insect, with curiously modified hind wings, Chasmoptera 

 huttii, from West Australia. The species was described and 

 figured by West wood in 1847 (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, v., Journ. 

 Proc. p.xxvii., pi. viii. fig. 1), two specimens at that time having 

 reached England. Mr. Du Boulay had recently been successful 

 in rediscovering this interesting form. 



Mr. Palmer exhibited a fine series of examples of aboriginal 

 chipping work from the north-west coast of Australia, illustrating 

 the aptitude of the Blacks in utilising material which civilisation 

 had brought within reach — glass-bottles, insulators, &c. — for 

 fashioning spear-heads; specimens of the curious bird-like flowers 

 of Crotalaria Cunninghamii R.Br., from West Australia; and, 

 from Lawson, Blue Mts., a remarkable coccid gall (Brachyscelis 

 duplex Schrader) and some heteromerous coleoptera. 



Mr. Musson sent, for exhibition, two examples of Loranthus 

 linophyllus Fenzl, in situ upon unusual hosts, namely Melaleuca 

 linariifolia Sm., and a cultivated Plum (var. Loutherboro') from 

 the neighbourhood of Richmond, collected by Mr. R. Farlow. 



Mr. W. S. Dun exhibited a series of specimens of Graptolites, 

 collected by Mr. J. E. Carne, from Parish Inverary, County 

 Argyle, on the Shoalhaven River about 12 miles from Tallong. 

 These fossils prove a great extension of the Ordovician system in 

 this State. The beds are of the same age as those developed in 

 N.E. Gippsland of Upper Ordovician age; and in the Delegate 

 and Berridale (Cooma) districts. The following genera and 

 species are represented : — Climacograptus affinis, Diplograptus 

 foliaceus and D. sp., Dicranograptus, Dicellograptus affinis and 

 D. sp. 



