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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited herbarium specimens of the plants 

 referred to in the papers by Messrs. Deane, Betche, and himself. 



Mr. Etheridge exhibited the aboriginal weapons described in 

 his paper. 



Mr. Hedley contributed the following Note : — An interesting 

 addition to the fauna of N.S. Wales is hereby recorded in Liotia 

 lodderte, Petterd, of which several specimens have occurred to 

 me on Balmoral Beach, near Sydney. The species was described 



by Petterd in the 

 Journal of Con- 

 chology, iv. 1884, 

 p. 135, from the 

 Leven Heads, 

 Tasmania, and 

 has since been 

 found in South 

 Australia and 

 Victoria. Tryon omitted the species from his Monograph as 

 unfi2;ured, and therefore unrecognisable. To supply this defi- 

 ciency, drawings are now tendered. Miss Lodder informs me that 

 the natural colour is not white, as described from bleached speci- 

 mens, but cinnamon-brown. Vitrinella liricincta, Garrett, is very 

 like this species, but lacks the heavy reflected lip and has fewer 

 and feebler spiral lyrje. Specimens of the Sydney shell were sent 

 to Mr. H. A. Pilsbry, with a request that he would compare 

 them with the Fijian species. He answered me (24/6/98) : 

 "Garrett's types do not show the reinforcement or crest behind 

 the peristome that yours have, and the aperture is less oblique. 

 I send one of the type lot, that you may satisfy yourself on these 

 points. Some are a trifle larger than the one sent, but all have 

 the same apertural character." 



