450 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr, Fletcher exhibited a specimen of Periixdus from (^lipps- 

 land, and in reference to it read the following note : — 



" Until its rediscovery in Queensland last year, the Australian 

 species of Peripatus seems to have been known only from the type 

 specimen (or^specimens) described by Sanger in 1869; at any rate 

 subsequent writers who refer to it do not lead one to suppose that 

 they had seen specimens of it. Sanger's paper even to the 

 explanation of the plates, is in the Russian language, but in the 

 abstract of \tinArchivfilrNaturgesch. (XXXVIl Jahrg., II. Bd.) 

 the locality for P. Leuckartii is vaguely given as New Holland. 

 Following closely on the discovery of Perijoatus in Queensland, its 

 occurrence in the S.E. portion of the Continent is of sufficient 

 interest and importance to be recorded as showing its wide distri- 

 bution, at any rate in Eastern Australia. The specimen which I 

 exhibit this evening was given to me a fortnight ago by my friend 

 Mr. E. T. Baker of Newington College, who had obtained it a 

 few days previously either in or under a rotten log at Warragul, 

 Gippsland, Victoria. It has fifteen pairs of claw-beai-ing append- 

 ages, and has nearly the same dimensions as are given in the 

 abstract referred to ; it is therefore in all probability an example 

 of P. Leuckartii, Sanger. At present I have not been able to 

 compare mine with Queensland specimens. At the April Meeting 

 of the Royal Society of Queensland Mr. H. Tryon gave an account 

 of the occurrence of Peripatus in the northern colony, and from 

 the abstract given in the Brisbane Courier for April 16th, 1887, 

 it appears that specimens had been obtained both at Cardwell and 

 Brisbane." 



Mr. Masters exhibited specimens of Platycercus eximius, Vig, 

 and Horsf., and P. Pennantii, Gld., and a specimen of what he 

 believed to be an undoubted hybrid between these species. This 

 bird, which was shot at Wingelo near Goulburn out of a flock of 

 P. Penriantii, has the general plumage of P. eximius with the 

 blue cheeks and broad bill of the other species. 



