536 NOTLS AND EXHIBITS. 



Also from the Blue Mts., an Iso'pogon with simple undivided 

 leaves, and with white glabrous flowers, and other distinctive 

 characters which point to the probability of its being an unde- 

 scribed species. He also showed a number of frogs in illustration 

 of his paper. 



Mr. Hedley exhibited the shell of a mussel, Vnio angasi^ Lea, 

 taken alive from the stomach of a 101b. cod caught in the Bar won 

 River near Brewarrina by Mr. William Davies. The valves 

 measure 2^ by 4 inches. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited Recluzia Hargravesi, Cox, with the shell 

 and animal, collected by the late Mr. W. Glover, lighthouse 

 keeper at Nelson Head ; the specimens were obtained after an 

 easterly gale at the Six-mile Beach, south of Port Stephens, in June, 

 1882. The original or type specimens w^ere described in Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1870, with the locality given as "found washed ashore 

 at the mouth of the Miall Piver, Port Stephens," wdiich is wrong, as 

 they were found inside the North Head of Port Stephens, on the 

 beach, and were collected by the abovenamed gentleman. He also 

 show^ed Scidus anati7ius, Don, with the lingual ribbon, from Little 

 Manly; and from North Queensland specimens of a new species 

 of Stenothyra, an Indian genus not previously recorded from 

 Australia. 



Mr. John Mitchell read the following " Note on an aboriginal 

 kitchen-midden at Bellambi, Illawarra " : — 



"While on a visit to Bellambi in July, 1892, my attention was 

 drawai to a series of shell-mounds. A cursory glance at them on 

 that occasion led me to conclude that they formed the remnants of 

 a raised beach. Closer inspection, however, in July of the present 

 year revealed their true character to be either one large kitchen- 

 midden or several small ones close to each other. Some of the 

 mounds have the appearance of a mass of commingled shells and 

 sand ; but experiments proved that the shells on the sides form 

 only a thin coating, and have slidden from the top, which is 

 formed of a considerable laver of shellv debris. 



