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May 31, 1911. The Queensland Natukalist. 
folia, Curculigo ensifolia, Typhonium Brownii, Triglochin 
procera, Heleocharis sphacelata, Sciipus littoralis. (2) 
Flowers of Eucalyptus coryiribosa (Blood-Wood), and of 
Bauhinia Carronii, sucked for the honey they yield by the 
Georgina River natives. (3) Pituri exhibits a botanical 
specimen of Duboisia Hoi)woodii, the Pituri plant, a netted 
bag containing Pituri (as prepared by the western blacks), 
and Gidgee — Acacia homalophylla — yielding the ashes that 
when chewed with the Pituri cause it to liberate the narcotic 
stimulant on which its use is dependent. (4) Textile Art : — 
Armlets, woven by the Papuan natives from the dark 
coloured rind of the stipes of two large ferns ; — Lygodium 
dichotomum and Gleichenia flagellaris. Dilly bag made 
from the stems of the sedge — Schaenus melanostachyus — 
by the natives of Moreton Bay ; baskets made from the 
inner bark of the Bottle Tree — Sterculia rupestris — by those 
of the Mapoon Mission Station 
4. By Mr. G. F. Bennett. — Photographs of noted 
Naturalists ; a sketch. Sir Richard Owen; and an autograph 
letter, also of this savant. 
ZOOLOGY. 
1. By Mr. W. E. Weatherill. — Thirty- two skins of 
the more beautiful Queensland birds, including Fruit Pigeons 
Parrots, Kingfishers, Bronze Cuckoos, Pittas, Maluri — 
Australian “Finches” — Diamond Birds (Pardalotus, spp.), 
&c., and that of the recently described Queensland denizen — 
Pseudogerygone cantator, Weatherill {vide Queensland 
Naturalist, Vol. I., p. 74), also skins of Papuan Birds of 
Paradise. 
2. By the President, Mr. H. Tyron. — Examples of 
the rare Leaf-tail Gecko — Gymnodactylus cornutus — two 
from the Johnstone River District, and one from the 
Mac herson Range, one showing a newly substituted tail 
with altered scale-pattern. 
3. By Mr. R. Illidge. — (a) A collection (10 drawers) 
of Australian Lycaenidse, many of the rarer species even 
being represented by a full series of specimens, {h) four 
cases of foreign beetles, illustrating size, strangeness of form, 
and special colouration, (c) a case, comprising the more 
beautiful Rhopalocera of the world. 
4. By Mr. E. H. Shearwin.- — (a) The Leaf Butterfly — 
Melanitis leda — and its variations, illustrated by a case of 
thirty specimens of the winter form, all taken on one after- 
noon at the same spot, a flat near Sankey’s Scrub (Brisbane 
District), no two exhibiting identity of colour and pattern 
beneath. (5) about 500 Brisbane moths, obtained in the 
