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attaining a length of IS mm. It has been found under bark 

 upon the ground, in great numbers, at Lindfield, during June. 

 Eggs, and larval stages with three, five, six, and eight pairs of 

 legs were also exhibited. The stage with seven pairs of legs, 

 recorded by Lubbock for the European Panropus huxleyi, is not 

 present in the life-history of the Australian form. The eggs 

 have not hitherto been found. Living individuals of this species, 

 which had been in captivity for three weeks, and seemed to 

 flourish in a tube containing some damp earth, were also shown. 

 The second species has a smaller and more slender form, being 

 less than 1 mm. in length, and is considerably rarer than the 

 first, only about a dozen specimens having been taken. The 

 species are generically distinct, and belong to the family Pauro- 

 podidcE. As they do not conform to the short diagnosis given 

 by Bagnall (Trans. Newcastle Nat. Hist. Soc, 1910), of the two 

 genera comprising this family, they will probably have to be 

 made the types of new genera. — (6) A species of Scutigerella, 

 belonging to the second Order of minute myriapods, the Syyn- 

 phyla. The only previous records of the occurrence of the Order, 

 in Australia, are both West Australian. A species of Scutigerella 

 is described in Michaelsen's " Fauna biid-west Australiens"; and 

 Alexander (Rept. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1913; records the oc- 

 currence of a species of Scolopendrella about Perth, which is pro- 

 bably the same species. Found under bark, Lindfield. — (c) A 

 specimen of Geonemertes au8traliensis Dendy, taken under bark 

 at Lindfield. The species has not previously been taken about 

 Sydney. — (o?) Two individuals of a species oi Pontobdella, taken 

 on the under side of stones in rock -pools at Long Reef, a some- 

 what unusual situation. — (e) Specimens of the primitive thysa- 

 nu ran insect Campodea. Alexander (/.c, 1913) states that it is 

 unknown outside the Holarctic Region. It is very plentiful 

 under logs and bark in the University grounds, at Lindfield, and 

 in many other localities about Sydney. — (/) Two individuals of a 

 species of Myriothela{Hydroidea) found under a stone at Thirroul. 

 Only one species has hitherto been recorded for the Southern 

 Hemisphere {M. austro-georgicp, from the Antarctic Regions,). 



