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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Brazier read the following Note on Cassis Wyvillei, Watson^ 

 from the Solomon Islands : — 



Cassis (Bezoardica) Wyvillei, Watson, Zoology of H.M.S. " Chal- 

 lenger," Vol. XV. p. 408, pi. XIV. fig. 13, 1886. 



^«5._Station 204a, November 2, 1874, lat. 12° 43' S., long. 

 122° 9' E., Philippine Islands, 100 to 115 fathoms, green mud; 

 two specimens found. 



While at Makeira Harbour, San Christoval, Solomon Islands, 

 July 26, 1872, I obtained by barter a fine large specimen of this 

 species from a native who wore it round his neck, having made 

 two small holes in it at the upper and lower parts of the outer 

 lip ; in pigeon English he gave me to understand that he had 

 picked up the shell four months previously after a heavy gale. 

 It is about one of the thinnest forms of Cassis known. It is just 

 as well to put this locality on record ; the specimen is now in the 

 collection of Dr. J. C. Cox, of Sydney. 



Mr. Brazier also exhibited a specimen of Astele subcarinatus, 

 Swainson (1854), identical with Eutrochus perspectivus, A. Adams 

 (1863); and he pointed out that the former name had been omitted 

 by all Conchological monographers of the family Tkochid^, and 

 that the specific name Adamsiy gtven by Mr. Pilsbry to Adams'^ 

 species, will not hold good. Swainson's type came from the east 

 coast of Tasmania ; the specimen exhibited from Circular Head, 

 Tasmania. 



Mr. W. S, Duncan sent for exhibition an interesting collection 

 of Coleoptera from Inverell, N.S.W., comprising specimens of 

 both common Sydney insects and of Southern Queensland forms, 

 as well as of cosmopolitan species and of a few others which will 

 probably prove to be undescribed. 



Dr. Cox exhibited specimens of Dendrohium speciosum showing 

 the peculiar mode of budding which at times obtains in this species. 



