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mid-summer and the middle of March, but nests of this Honey- 

 eater containing eggs are as plentiful again dui'ing April as they 

 are in August. It is possible that the seasons may overlap with 

 straggling late autumn breeders, but he had never found this 

 species breeding during the month of June. 



Mr. E. R. Waite exhibited a very young example (80 mm. long) 

 of Ilemisphaeriodon gerrardii, Clray, and he pointed out that at 

 this early age the ground colour was a creamy-white, the entire 

 under surface uniform black, and the transverse bands intense 

 black. With age the ground colour darkens and the bands 

 become brown and generally broken before reaching the ventral 

 surface, which in the adult is yellowish mottled with brown. 

 The specimen was obtained at Northfield, on the summit of the 

 Kurrajong Hills, KS.W., in July last (1893). The locality 

 mentioned is the most southern point at which this species has 

 been obtained, it having been previously recorded in New South 

 Wales only from the Clarence and Richmond Rivers. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited the large Patella mentioned in his paper, 

 and pointed out that its habitat was not the Kermadec Islands 

 but South Africa. Mr. H. A. Pilsbry's specific name Kerma- 

 decensis being therefoi'e a misnomer, he proposed to rename the 

 species P. Pilsbryi, Brazier. Also a magnificent new Cone, Conus 

 p7dcherrimus, Brazier, 3^ inches long, acuminated at both ends, 

 dotted and reticulated with white and light yellow, deeply and 

 spirally sulcated at the base spire with 15 whorls, sulcated at 

 the sutures and smooth below. From Tanna, New Hebrides, 

 found on the beach with other mollusca, thrown up after a sub- 

 marine volcanic eruption in 1878. 



Mr. Etheridge exhibited the remarkable implement referred to 

 in his paper. 



Mr. Henn showed the collection of mollusca ti-eated of in the 

 paper by Mr. Brazier and himself. 



