president's address. 1331 



The mcaturation of the Ovum in the Cape and New Zealand 

 species of Peripatus is the subject of a paper by Lilian Sheldon 

 Q.J.M.S. XXX. p. 1 (with 3 plates). 



The Rev. O. P. Cambridge describes a very singular new genus 

 of spider, Chasmocephcdon (C. neglectum), from Swan River. 

 P.Z.S. 1889, p. 45. 



CRUSTACEANS. 



New Zealand Institute. — Vol. XX. : On Anthosoma Smithii. 

 T. W. Kirk ; Vol. XXI. : Distribution of the Freshwater Cray- 

 fish of New Zealand. Charles Chilton ; Notes on New Zealand 

 Crustacean Fauna. G. M. Thomson. 



LOWER METAZOA. 



Annelides. 



Linnean Society, N.S.W. — J. J. Fletcher. 



Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria. — Vol. 1. 

 Part 1 : The Anatomy of Megascolides australis. W. Baldwin 

 Spencer. 



Royal Society, Queensland. — Vol. VI. : On Filarige of Birds. 

 T. L. Bancroft. 



The Australian Oligochsetse Cryj^todrilus purjyureus, n.sp., Acan- 

 thodrilus australis, n.sp., are described by W. Michaelsen (Mtthg. 

 N.H. Mus. Hamburg, VI.). 



POLYZOA. 



A. W. Waters describes Bryozoa from N.S.W. (Ann. and Mag. 

 N.H. (6) IV., p. 1). 



The Anatomy of Phoronis australis, W. B. Benham (Q.J.M.S., 

 n.s., XXX. 2, p. 125). 



ROTIFERA. 



Royal Society, Queensland. — Vol. VI. : List of Queensland 

 Rotifera. V. Gunson Thorpe. 



