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indeed one specimen is quite covered with this black-red por- 

 cellanous colouring. The apices of the Lacks of the shells as a 

 rule are marked exactly as in C. thersites. None of my specimens 

 show any disposition to be white upon either side of the aperture 

 as is the case in that species. The teeth in thern corres- 

 pond in every way with Smith's description, but are very 

 much darker, almost black. The interior is not white, but rather 

 white with a bluish tinge ; the teeth on the body whorl are dark 

 red-brown, but just above the line of the teeth the surface is only 

 stained lightly with brown. The interstices between the teeth are 

 of the same dark colour as these, the number of which corresponds 

 exactly with Smith's description. These specimens, which quite 

 set aside any doubt which may have existed as to the validity of 

 Mr. Smith's species, are from N.W. Australia, and were obtained 

 from pearl-shell divers. It has been ascertained that the large 

 green turtles feed on these molluscs, and some of my specimens 

 show distinctly where they have been gripped by the sharp, pow< r- 

 ful bills of these animals." 



Mr. Masters exhibited a large collection of the magnificent 

 Moth — Nyctalemon Orontes — from Cairns, Queensland. He also 

 exhibited some eggs of what he believed to be the Painted Snipe, 

 Rh ynchcea austra lis. 



Dr. Hurst exhibited some eggs which he had taken from a nest 

 in a mangrove swamp, at Newington, with a view of ascertaining 

 the name of the bird. Dr. Ramsay said he believed the eggs to 

 be those of Glyciphila ocularis. 



Mr. Macleay exhibited the following new or rare reptiles and 

 fishes collected by Mr. W. W. Froggatt, in the vicinity of Cairns, 

 Queensland. Snakes : Tropidonotus picturatus, Schlegel, Dipsas 

 Boydii, Macleay, Hoplocephalus assimilis, Macleay, Hoploce- 

 phalus nigrostriatus, Kreflt, Nardoa crassa, Macleay, and Dendro- 

 phis bilorealis, Macleay. Lizards : Varanus ocellatus, Gray, 

 Varanus sp. % Hinidia, n. sp., four species of Geckotidae unknown 

 one with tail of remarkable width, and several other unknown 

 lizards. Fishes : Dules Hasioellii, Macleay, Aristeus rufescens, 



