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Fig. 3. — Etispoiigia silicata. R. v. L. 



Portion of the skin seen from without. 



Alcohol Alum-carniin. 



135:1 magnified. 



(C) Conuli. (p) Pores. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited a specimen of Minyas, n. sp., an Actiuid 

 of the N.W. Coast of Australia, from the Australian Museum. 



The Rev. J. N. Manning exhibited a remarkably perfect fossil 

 fish from the brick-yard of Mr. Abel Harver, St. Peter's, Cook's 

 River, The rock in which this specimen is preserved is undoubtedly 

 a portion of the Wianamatta Shales. It was regarded as a 

 Ganoid by most members ; but Mr. Ogilby maintained it to 

 be of Cyprinoid affinities. 



Mr. Macleay exhibited a male and female specimen of 

 Phalacrognathus Muelleri, the insect described in his paper ; also a 

 male and female specimen of iVecro(Zes osculans, an insect described 

 by Vigors in 1825 as an inhabitant of India, but which has lately 

 been found in Queensland and New Guinea. Mr. Macleay also 

 exhibited a specimen of petrified wood from Mr. W R. Campbell's 

 Trigamon Station, Gwydir District, which appeared to be identical 

 with the existing Myall tree. 



Mr. Sidney OllifF exhibited some of the insects mentioned in his 

 Paper — one a Rhysodes, a genus entirely new to Australia. 



Dr. von Lendenfeld exhibited two pliotographs of Glacier- 

 polished Rocks in the Mount Lofty Group, near Adelaide. They 

 are Siluro-Devonian and show the striae well. They are the same 

 to which reference was made at a recent Meeting of the Society. 



E. P. Ramsay, Curator of the Musuem, exhibited large specimnes 

 of Boltenia australis, which had been secured through the kind- 

 ness of Capt. Hixon, R.N. They were a portion of a mass of about a 



