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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Maiden exhibited samples of tlie kinos referred to in his 

 paper. 



Mr. Ogilby exhibited the three lizards described above. 



Mr. North sent for exhibition the nest and eggs of Merida 

 vinitincta, the eggs of Ocydromus sylvestris, and skins and eggs of 

 Sternula sinensis. 



Mr. Sloane exhibited the insects described in his paper. 



Mr. Rohu exhibited the upper jaw of a Death Adder (AcantJio- 

 phis ayitarctica) in which on one side there is an equally developed 

 supplementary tooth placed on the transverse plane. 



Mr. A. Sidney OUifF sent for exhibition three specimens (two 

 (J and one 9) of Atyphella lychnus, OIL, together with the 

 following note on the discovery of the female of that species : — 



" In answer to an appeal for information about the sexes of the 

 Fire-fly recently described in the Proceedings of this Society (see 

 antea p. 645), under the name Atyphella lychnus^ Mr. James D. 

 Cox has forwarded to me $ and ^ examples which he found in 

 copula at Mount Wilson early in the present month. An exam- 

 ination of these specimens enables me to state that Atyphella 

 belongs to the division of the family Lampyridse in which both 

 sexes are winged, and that it is allied to Lucidota and Photinus 

 of the tribe Lucidotina, a fact which I hardly anticipated from 

 the general form and structure of the male insect. The female 

 has the head and eyes much smaller than the male, and is 

 altogether broader in form, and the underside does not present 



