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Mr. Masters exhibited the following mammals sent by Mr. 



Froggatt from Derby, King's Sound : — Two specimens of Hapa- 



lotis Boweri, Ramsay ; Pei'ameles auratus, Ramsay ; Perameles 



■ n. sp. (?) ; Dasyurus Geoffroyi, Belideus ariel, and a new species 



• of Plialangista remarkable for its very short and slender tail. 



Mr. A. Sidney Olliff exhibited a specimen of Feripatus from 

 Cassilis and in reference to it read the following note : — 



" The specimen which I have the pleasure of bringing before 

 the notice of the Society this evening was obtained under a stone 

 at the foot of a grey gum tree by Mr. H. Merewether and myself 

 at Cassilis, whilst searching for insects on the banks of the 

 Mounmoura Creek, a ti'ibutary of the Goulburn River. The 

 species is identical with that recently recorded by Mr. Fletcher 

 from Gippsland (see antea p. 450) and is probably the Peripatits 

 Leuckartii of Sanger. It possesses fifteen pairs of claw-bearing 

 ^appendages and a pair of oral papillae. When I first saw the 

 creature I was much struck with its resemblance to a caterpillar ; 

 ^indeed, were it not for the antennas, it might very easily be 

 passed over as the larva of same Noctua. It has the habit of 

 coiling itself into a half-circle when disturbed in the characteristic 

 manner of that gi'oup, and its gait when in motion is very much 

 the same. During life my specimen was coloured as follows : — 

 shining slaty-bi'own above, dusted with brick-red, with a dusky 

 •red patch on the head, and a moderately distinct dusky red 

 lateral line on each side extending throughout its entire length ; 

 below pinkish-grey ; the antennae dark brown. It measured 21 

 mm. when fully extended. I believe this is the first record of the 

 occurrence of Peripatus in New South Wales. The animal is now 

 known from the three eastern colonies — Queensland, New South 

 Wales and Victoria." 



Mr. Jilacleay exhibited a fine specimen of the Oligorus, or fresh 

 water cod, of the Richmond River, recently sent to him by W. C. 

 Bundock, Esq. He said he had compared it carefully with speci- 

 mens of Oligorus Macquariensis, Cuv., and Oligorus Mitchelli, 

 Castelnau, the two species known under the name of Murray or 



