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Australia. The species is of very wide range and has been 

 observed near Norfolk Island and New Guinea, but has not 

 hitherto been recorded from waters west of the mainland of 

 Australia. 



Mr. Masters exhibited a large Hive of Bees entirely destroyed by 

 Achrea grisella, a Tinea introduced from Europe. Also a seed 

 vessel of Trapa bicornis, a Chinese species, imported into the 

 country as an edible, and known as the Buffalo Nut. 



Mr. C. S. Wilkinson exhibited some fossil Turtle eggs embedded 

 in coral sand rock, from Lord Howe Island. In the same rock are 

 found numerous bones of Turtles, associated with bones of the 

 extinct Horned Lizard, Megalania, of which two skulls have been 

 found. 



Mr. Wilkinson also exhibited two specimens of Trochus impe- 

 r talis from New Zealand. 



Mr. Macleay exhibited the New Guinea Coleoptera enumerated 

 in his Paper. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a female specimen of Antechinus jlavipes, 

 one of the smaller Dasyuridse, having nine mammary fetuses on 

 the teats in the shallow pouch. Mr. Krefft, (Trans. Philos. Soc. 

 of N.S.W., 1862-65 p. 10) who has recorded the occurrence of a 

 like number in this species, on one occasion met with ten young 

 ones. The specimen exhibited was kindly sent by J. D. Cox, 

 Esq., of Cullenbone near Mudgee. Mr. Fletcher also exhibited 

 three blastodermic vesicles of Kangaroos (Hahnaturus dorsalis 

 and Osphranter robustus) the largest of which was about the size 

 of a large pea, and shewed a pear-shaped embryonic area. All 

 the vesicles were quite unattached to the uteri, the cavities of 

 which exactly corresponded to the size and shape of the vesicles. 

 Also a uterine foetus of Osphranter robustus of nearly the full 

 period, about an inch long, with the foetal membranes attached. 



