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in the two latter here was no trace of the absent Wing ever 
having been devedoped. 
A Remarkaste Burrowine Froc.—At the meeting on 
6th February, Master T. P. Steel exhibited five living speci- 
mens—four males and one female—of Ph dlozcryphus fla vo=gut- 
tatus, Fletcher, from Leura. This is one of the rarer of our 
Australian frogs and is remarkable for the powerful pectoral 
muscles. On the three first toes of the fore-limbs of the males 
are a series of black horny tubercles, which in the specimens 
shown varied irregularly in number from four to nine on 
each toe, and constitue a somewhat formidable armament. 
When taken in the hand the animal has a habit of grasping 
the finger with a sudden spasmodic movement of the strong 
fore-limbs and giving a sharp squeeze which is quite painful 
and must render the frog a formidable opponent to any small 
animal. An exactly similar habit of an unidentified frog from 
La Plata, tentatively called the “Wrestler Frog,’’ is described 
by Hudson in “‘The Naturalist in La Plata’’ 1892, p. 76. The 
figure there given bears a strong resemblance to our Austra- 
lian frog.—Ed. Australian Naturalist. 
AUSTRALIAN MIsTLETOES.—At last meeting of the Club 
Mr. E. Cheel; exhibited specimens of three species of mistletoe 
collected by him in January at Burrinjuck :— 
Loranthus linophyllus, Fenzl, parasitic on the ‘River 
Oak” (Casuarina Cunninghamiana, Mig); L. Bidwilli, Benth, 
on “Red Pine’’ (Callitris calcarata, R.Br.) ; and Notothixos 
cornifolius, Oliv., on ‘‘Kurrajong’’ (Sterculia diversifolia, G. 
Don.) These parasites were very conspicuous as they hung in 
dense masses on their respective hosts. 
Insect RELAxING Box.—At the February meeting of the 
Club, Mr. G. A. Waterhouse exhibited a Newman relaxing 
tin into which he had placed several butterflies at Cairns dur- 
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