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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited a number of slides of Polyzoa in 

 illusti'ation of his paper. 



Mr. MacDonnel] showed the saw of a species of Pristis from W. 

 Australia, said to have been obtained from fresh-water. 



Mr. North exhibited the eggs of the following species of Birds, 

 Artamus melanops, Gld., Strepera intermedia, Gld., .S^. melanoptera, 

 Old., Rhijndura diemenensis, Sharpe, Malurus cyanochlamys, Sh., 

 Acanthiza inornata, Gld., FoepJdla acuttcatcda, Gld., Acantho- 

 rhynchus dubius, Gld., Sitella pileata, Gld., Zosterops Jiavogularis, 

 Masters, and Megalojyrepia assimilis, Gld. 



Mr. A. Sidney OllifF exhibited the insects obtained by Messrs. 

 W. A. Harper and J. A. Millington, during a short residence in 

 Norfolk Island. He called attention to Pa2nlio liioneics, Don., 

 Danais pkxipjms, Linn., Pyrameis Ilea, Fabr., a Pierid new to the 

 Australian fauna, several introduced species of Heterocera, and 

 among the Coleoptera, to some Longicorns belonging to the genus 

 Xyloteles ; but he refrained from entering into particulars as he 

 intended on some future occasion to submit to the Society a 

 detailed report on the collection. 



The Hon. James Norton exhibited two pieces of wood carved in 

 a remarkable manner, in the one case by a Black Cockatoo in ex- 

 tracting a grub, in the other by white-ants. 



Mr. Mitchell exhibited and made remarks upon a number of 

 fossils from the Bowning series, as follows : — 



(a) Pleurodictyum sp. : this specimen was found in the Bowning 

 beds associated with Ccdymene Blumenhachii, and two species of 

 Acidasjyis, one of which is closely allied to if not identical with 

 A. Leonhardi, to which, from the study of the head andpygidium, 

 it has been referred by M. Ratte (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. II. 

 Ser. 2nd, p. 99). As far as I have been able to ascertain, up to 



