BY W. MACLEAY, F.t.S. 62^ 



backwards and upwards into an acute spine at its extremity and 

 with a broad, triangular, flat, spine on the inner side near the 

 apex. Caudal fin pointed and rather long ; ventrals large, 

 reaching the second anal ray. Colour yellowish or reddish- 

 yellow ; minutely dotted with white, and with many indistinct 

 ocellated spots ; a line of about a dozen pearl-white, roundish 

 spots along the side of the abdomen under the lateral line, which 

 is extremely crooked. The first dorsal fin barred with blackish, 

 the second and caudal spotted, the anal blackish. Under three 

 inches in length. 

 Port Jackson. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited many specimens of a Filaria taken from 

 imported Salt Herrings. 



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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEE 29th, 1880. 



W. J. Stephens, Esq., M.A., Vice President, in the Chair. 



donations. 

 Proceedings Eoyal Microscopical Society, Vol. III., parts 4 — 5, 

 from the Society. 



Eucalyptographia, Decade VII., from Baron F. von MuUer, 

 K.C.M.a, etc. 



Palaeontology of New Zealand, Part IV. 



Monograph of Strombid Del. Mar. Eossa, 1876, by Issel and 

 Tapparone Canefri. — Pars III. and IV., Contribuzioni per una 

 Fauna Malacologique delle isole Papuane, by T. Canefri, 1876-77. 

 — Intorno ad Alcune Specie di Testacei Marini mal conoscuite o 



