SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
recorded from Limestone Creek, in rocks also of Upper Silurian age. The two 
species, Merista plebeia and Orthis striatula, typical Middle Devonian forms 
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in Hurope and North America, are described from Tulcumbah, near Carroll, 
3. Nematode Parasites of the Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia domestica) 
in Australia. By Vera Irwin-Smith, B.Sc., F.L.S., Linnean Macleay - 
Fellow of the Society in Zoology. 
The only Nematode hitherto recorded from this host in Australia is Ascaridea 
columbe Gmelin from both New South Wales and Queensland. Records of two 
further species are added and a new generic name is proposed for Strongylus 
quadriradiatus Stevenson. 
4. A few notes on the Botany of Lord Howe Island. Sixth paper. By J. 
H. Maiden, 1.S.0., F.R.S., F.L.S. 
‘This brief paper supplements existing information in regard to hybrid 
Howeas, they having been under cultivation in the Sydney Botanic Gardens for 
a number of years. There are notes on indigenous plants hitherto unrecorded, 
of which Adiantum formosum: R.Br. is the most important. A. number of 
records of introduced plants are also given, . 
Nores AND Exuipits. 
Mr. Fred Turner exhibited and offered observations on a specimen of Loliwm 
temulentum Linn., which he had received for determination from Mr. R. Baird, 
Multagoona, Darling River, who had never hitherto seen it growing in the dis- 
trict. The seeds of this exotie grass are considered injurious, and if eaten are 
said to produce drowsiness, headache, and vertigo. According to Sir J. D. 
Hooker and the Rey. Canon Tristram, * this species is identical with the ‘Tares’ 
of Scripture, and is one of the worst weeds in the wheat crops of Palestine, and 
the only grass with a poisonous seed.” 
Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the Bag Shelter or Boree Moth, 
Teara contraria, showing the masses of eggs covered with the down off the tips 
of their bodies. One of the egg masses contained a number of eggs of a 
parasitic moth, the larvae of which feed upon the eggs of the Boree Moth and 
pupate under the cover of the egg down. ‘The larve of this Bag Shelter Moth 
every year strip the foliage from thousands of Boree trees, Acacia pendula, one 
of the most valuable fodder trees in Australia. 
Mr. G. A. Waterhouse exhibited Visiphone rawnsleyi 6 and '. abeona ¥ 
which he had paired, together with 3 6 and 2 % obtained from this cross and 
also two small families obtained by pairing these first generation specimens. One 
family consisted of 3 3,1 %, and the other of 16,2 9 Also four Specimens 
of the first generation obtained by crossing 7. abeona 3 with 7. rawnsle,i 2, 
Also Heteronympha mirifica and H. paradelpha reared from larvx, together with 
dead pupx of both species. ; 
Mr. H. J. Carter exhibited (i) specimens of each of the six Australian 
genera of Ohalcophorime (Buprestide). These six genera were at an earlier 
period all classed as Chalcophora, though they are clearly differentiated in 
modern work; (ii) specimens of three closely allied Cyphogastra, concerning two 
of which there is some confusion in Kerreman’s “(Monographie ”; (iii) Cyrivides 
sex-spilota Carter recently collected by Mr. H. W. Brown'on the Johnstone 
River, Q.; (iv) an example of a new genus taken by Dr. E. W. Ferguson at 
Port Macquarie; and (vy) a new species of Stigmodera from the Blue Mts. 
Dr. A. B. Walkom exhibited a number of seeds associated with Glossopteris 
in rocks of Permo-Carboniferous age from Three-mile Creek, on the Bowen 
Coalfield, Queensland. 
Mr. J. J. Fletcher exhibited specimens of Persoonia lucida R.Br., from the 
Lane Cove district, being portions of the only two plants, both solitary, he 
had ever seen growing. The opinion was expressed that this species needs 
further investigation. , 
_ The Annual General Meeting, together with the next Ordinary Monthly Meet- 
ing, will be held on Wednesday, 30th March, 1921, at 7.30 p.m, 
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