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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Hedley exhibited and offei-ed some remarks on specimens 

 of Vaginula leydigi, Simrotli, and V. hedleyi, Simr., two interesting 

 slugs from Brisbane, recently added to the molluscan fauna of 

 Australia {vide Zoologischer Anzeiger, 1889, p. 551 ; and Abstr. 

 in Journ. Roy. Micros. Soc, 1890, p. 21). These slugs are very 

 abundant in the Brisbane botanical gardens, occurring also on 

 lawns and in gardens in that part of the city which was formerly 

 scrub land. After a shower they may be collected in abundance, 

 crawling rapidly over the asphalt paths and the grass. V. 

 leydigi is much commoner than V. hedleyi, which it resembles in 

 shape, size, and habits, but from which its coloration distinguishes 

 it in all stages of its growth, the former being a blackish-brown 

 with a tawny yellow dorsal stripe, the latter a dark fawn without 

 any stripe. These molluscs are the first real representatives of 

 their genus found in Australia, the only Vagimda previously 

 known here, V. australis, Heyneman, belonging to that trigonal 

 group which embraces V. j)i'ismatica, Tapparone-Canefri, from 

 Dutch New Guinea, V. tourannensis, Souleyet, from Cochin-China, 

 and V. trigona, Semper, from the Philippines, constituting a 

 natural but as yet unnamed genus. He also took the opportunity 

 of pointing out that he had submitted specimens of Limax queens- 

 kmdicus, Hedley (P.R.S.Q. Vol. V. p. 150, pi. 5), to Dr. Simroth, 

 who had determined them to be Agriolimax Icevis, Miiller, This 

 species is probably the slug (Journ. des Mus. Godeff. XII. p. 159) 

 mentioned under the name of L. rarotonganus, Heyn., as occurring 

 in Australia. Few if any land molluscs range so widely, since, 

 under different names by various authors, this form has been 

 recorded from Europe, North and South America, the West 

 Indies, Madagascar, and many islands of the Pacific. 



The Rev. Dr. Woolls sent for exhibition specimens of Dodonoea 

 altenuata, A. Cunn., with both simple and pinnate leaves. 

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