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nostril to posterior margin of tympanum, 0*9 inch ; from tip of 

 the snout to centre of orbit 0*65 inch ; to angle of the mouth, 1 

 inch ; head, 1 inch by 1*1 inches. 



This remarkably handsome species, so conspicuous by the rosy 

 seams on the outer margin of its legs and arms, was obtained on 

 New Ireland, by the Rev. George Brown, and formed part of the 

 large and valuable collection that gentleman made in those lati- 

 tudes. In having the hands and feet almost fully webbed, this 

 species is not unlike a true Bhacophorus, but the tongue and 

 fingers at once separate it from that genus. It comes, however, 

 close to our Australian species Pelodryas cceruleus {White), but 

 differs not only in the colouring in wanting the pink or rosy 

 stripes, but also in being much longer in the limbs, more webbed 

 in the phalanges, and broader and shorter in the head, and in 

 having the paratoid not so high or so largely developed, judging 

 from the single spirit specimen before me. 



EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Masters exhibited the skull of an aboriginal female, re- 

 markable on account of a large oval aperture about 1 inch by | 

 inch at the junction of the two parietal bones. The exhibit was 

 the skull of the " gin" of " King Charley," of Bega. The woman 

 had been accustomed for many years to wear a cap of wet clay 

 upon her head. 



Mr. R. D. Ward, M.A., of St. Leonards, exhibited a specimen of 

 a sponge-bearing crab of the genus " Maia." 



MONDAY, 26th MAECH, 1877. 



W. J. Stephens, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



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