NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 979 



exhibited are : — H. ater, Krefft, South Australia ; H. Dainelii, 

 Giinth., Rockhampton ; H. maculatus, Steind., Rockhamptoii ; 

 H. Mastersii, KrefFt, S. Australia ; JI. Ramsayi, KreflPt, Braid- 

 wood ; and H. spectabilis, Krefft, S. Australia. 



Dr. Cox exhibited a splendid cast of a fine specimen of the 

 Hobart Town Trumpeter ( Latris hecateia) coloured from life. He 

 had received it from Mr. Saville Kent, by whom it had been 

 modelled. 



Dr. Ramsay exhibited specimens of Dendritic Gold in Serpen- 

 tine and in Mispickel, from the Lucknow Mine near Orange. 



Mr. Woodford exhibited a fine collection of Diurnal Lepidop- 

 tera collected by himself at Guadalcanar, Solomon Group. 

 Among the most remarkable were OrnitJ copter a Victorice ^ and $, 

 0. D'Urvilleana ^ and ^j PapiHo Polydorus, P. Agamemnon, P. 

 Ulysses, P. Erskinei, P. Codrus, CJiaraxes Jupiter, Rhinopalpo. 

 alyina. 



Mr. Woodford likewise exhibited some birds also from Guadal- 

 canar, among which were Alcedo hengalensis, Cyanalcyort leucopy- 

 gialis, Ceyx solitarius, Collocalia sp., Hirundo titulica, Erythrura sp. 

 (a beautiful species with deep blue forehead and ear-coverts, 

 probably new), Pionias lieteroclitus, Nasiterna finschii. 



(All the foregoing should have appeared as the continuation of 

 the Notes and Exhibits for October, p. 681.) 



Dr. Cox exhibited 20 species of Lepidoptera from Victoria, col- 

 lected by Mr. Kershaw. Amongst them were fine specimens of 

 Thalaino. Clara, and what Mr. Kershaw considered would turn 

 out to be a new Charagia, but which Mr. Masters has pronounced 

 to be a species found about Sydney, the larvse of which feed on 

 the Tea-Tree in swamps ; also Xenica Ella described this evening 

 by Mr. Olliff, Xenica Kershawi Miskin, and Ogyris Oroetes Hew. 



Dr. Katz read the following note : " Through the kindness of 

 Mr. E. Stanley, Government Veterinarian of N. S. W., I have 

 been enabled to examine the lungs of a cow, which, suffering from 

 pleuro-pneumonia, was killed. As these diseased lungs were still 

 warm when I received them (11th inst.), they could hardly have 



