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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. D. G. Stead recorded, as an addition to the fish-fauna of 

 New South "Wales, a species of Serranid Perch, Diagramma 

 crassisjnmun Ruppell( = D. affine Gtinther), a fine example of 

 which, measuring 674 mm., and weighing IGjIbs., had been 

 received by the Department of Fisheries, early in May, from Port 

 Macquarie. He also placed on record the second known occur- 

 rence of the Pristipomatid fish, Therapon jarbua (Forskal); a 

 specimen, measuring 1435 mm., having been received from the' 

 same locality. INIr. Stead also showed a piece of conglomerate 

 from a river-bar on the Barwon River, at Old CoUymungooI 

 Station, a few miles above the junction of the Meei or Gwj'dir, 

 and the Barwon; and he described the deposit as it appeared in 

 the outcrop on the river. Tlje whole area had the appearance as 

 if blood had been spilled over it and then diied; and from that 

 tlie Blacks had called the spot " Mul-qui " or " Mul-guae"(qui or 

 guae meaning blood). The most interesting thing about this 

 spot, however, was that traces of a series of aboriginal fish-traps, 

 resembling those at Brewarrina, were found. He believed that 

 the Blacks had been led to make these enclosures through observing 

 the natural trapping of Murray cod and other fishes in the holes 

 excavated by Nature in this peculiar conglomerate. 



Mr. A. R. McCulloch exhibited, by permission of the Curator 

 of the Australian Museum, a small sunfish, Ranzania makua 

 Jenkins, which had been forwarded to Sydney by the Curator of 

 the West Australian Museum, This species has hitherto been 

 recorded from Honolulu and Japan only, tliough a specimen has 

 been in the Australian Museum for many yeai's, which was 

 received from Mauritius. Also young .specimens of Cyttus novce- 



