190 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
This walk has the saving advantage of a pleasant down 
grade all the distance. 
EnTomoLogicaL.—By EH. H. Zeck. These consisted mostly 
of coccidae or gall insects, as follows :—Ascellis schraderi, a 
flattened blister-like gall. A. praemollis, the common. round 
gall. Apiomorpha pileata, A. Fletcheri and A. Thorntoni. All 
on EH. corymbosa.  Hrio-coccus coriaceus, a common eucalypt 
scale. Cylindroccus spiniferous, the seed-like gall on Casuarina 
sp. Sphaerococcus pirogallis, small pear-shaped gall on Lepto- 
spermum. flavescens. Chaleid galls and galls formed by mites 
were also taken on H. corymbosa. Several specimens of the 
small myrmecophilous  silverfish were found in the nests of 
Euponera lutea. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
CYRTOSTYLIS RENIFORMIS._-At the July meeting, Mr. Forster 
exhibited paintings of the above orchid, both the normal and 
the green variety. He mentioned that Rev. Mr. Rupp had re- 
corded the green variety from Tasmania, but this appeared to 
be the first record for N.S.W. The specimen came from 
Bullabeela district. 
Mr. McAuliffe sent the following note from a local paper: 
CASINO’S RAIN TREE. 
Sir,—Re Kyogle’s rain tree. There is no necessity for go- 
ing out of Casino to see water dripping from an apple tree 
(angophora subvelutina). Down near the railway gates you 
will find one that has been dropping water for years, to my 
knowledge, on the hottest days. It is not whitish gum, but 
froth, and in it you will find a number of white insects or 
bugs, which are the cause of the water issuing from the tree. 
They evidently puncture the bark and suck the juice. When 
the bark is punctured the sap issues quicker than the bugs 
van use it, and it falls in large drops. However, you will 
see trees in the ser ub, from which you will find, at times, the 
sap issuing in jets, and covering all the plants underneath with 
sticky juice. I have watched the sap issuing from Amoora 
mtd in fine jets, shooting up over two feet from the 
ranches, like miniature fountains, and numbers of them issu- 
a at the same ime were very pretty and ‘interesting.— Yours, 
ete., 
D. J. aE 
