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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Cox exhibited a specimen of Purpura textilosa, a common 

 marine shell on the South Australian coast, brought to him from 

 Brewarrina on the Darling ; and he said that at first he was 

 extremely puzzled to account for the means of transport to such a 

 distance from the coast. The true explanation of the matter 

 probably was to be found in the fact that as, instead of carrying 

 lime so great a distance — Brewarrina being fully 1000 miles by 

 river from the sea — it was usual to take up shells from the 

 coast by the river steamers and burn them where required, the 

 specimen exhibited had formed part of such an importation. 



Mr. Palmer exhibited a snake {Eoplocephalus nigrescens, Gthr.) 

 and a lizard (Tiliqua gigas, Sch.) caught yesterday on the Blue 

 Mountains, as they came to drink at a little runnel of water very 

 shortly after it had been caused to flow from a pool higher up by 

 one of his companions, the weather being very hot and dry until 

 the heavy rain accompanying the heavy thunderstorm later on in 

 the afternoon. 



Eev. J. M. Curran exhibited some excellent lithographs of 

 rock-sections which had just been executed in Sydney under his 

 supervision. 



In reply to an enquiry on the part of Mr. A. Sidney Olliff as 

 to the exact habitat of the splendid Lucanid beetle, Phalacrog- 

 nathus Muelleri, described by Sir William Macleay in 1885 

 (P.L.S.N.S.W., Vol. X., pp. 135 and 474) from two specimens 

 about which the only information then available was that they 

 came from North Australia, Mr. F. A. Skuse said that specimens 

 had recently been received by the Australian Museum from 

 Russell Scrub, Boar Pocket, near Cairns, Queensland. 



