44 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Musson showed a named collection of about sixty species 

 of New Zealand mosses. 



Mr. Hedley showed a colony of the nests of a trap-door spider, 

 together with specimens of the animal, from Rose Bay. These 

 spiders are abundant round Sydney, occurring even in the public 

 parks of the city. A favourite spot for them is a patch of mossy 

 earth in the crevice of a sandstone rock. The species exhibited 

 forms a wafer-like lid, not as in some species a thick door like a 

 gun-wad. The presence of several egg-bags in the larger burrows 

 would indicate that the present month (February), is the breeding 

 season. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited two specimens of a land planarian 

 {Bipalium keivense, Moseley), collected by Mr. J. J. Lister at 

 Upolu, Samoa, under stones in the bush ; and a specimen of the 

 same species from Eltham, Victoria, collected by Mr. W. W. 

 Smith ; seeing that this planarian has now undoubtedly been 

 introduced into many widely separated localities, and that the 

 species of the genus whose habitats are certainly known belong 

 to the Palsearctic and Oriental regions, there seems little ground 

 for supposing it to be indigenous in Samoa. 



Also two instances of floral prolification in the "Flannel-flower" 

 ( Actinotus helianthi), in which from the ordinary umbels spring, 

 in one case about seven, in the other eleven small secondary 

 umbels, each with its involucre of woolly bracts ; the specimens 

 were gathered at Oatley a few days ago. 



Also living specimens of three species of frogs (Hyla ccerulea, H. 

 peronii, and Limnodynastes sahninii, Stdr.), brought from Goangra 

 on the Namoi, near Walgett, by Mi-. A. Carson ; these specimens 

 offer fresh evidence of the very wide distribution of these three 

 species in the interior of the colony ; in the specimens of 

 L. salminii the dorsal stripes, which in spirit specimens are pink 

 or rose-reel, are of quite a different tint, being a bright ochreons- 

 yellow. Specimens of an interesting frog (Hyla gracilenta) from 

 the Richmond River (collected by Mr. R. Helms) were also 

 exhibited ; the species has not previously been recorded from 

 N.S.W. 



