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new and beautifully marked species of Retaster, recently dredged 

 in Port Jackson. (5) A new Bat, Taphozous, sp., received from 

 Mr. G. Barnard, from the Dawson River. He also, on behalf 

 of Mr. Smithurst, exhibited some interesting and rare semi-fossil 

 shells from the Muddy Creek deposits, near Hamilton, Victoria, 

 among these were a new species of Trigonia, a new Telicaria, a 

 fine large perfect specimen of Murex areolatus and Volula un- 

 dulata, Lamarck. 



Dr. J. C Cox exhibited a sandstone nodule, the outer crust of 

 which to a considerable depth was stained with iron, the original 

 colour, as shown by the central portion, having been white. Also 

 a large Gephalopod, belonging to the family Sepiadoi and genus 

 Sepia, which had been recently presented to the Australian 

 Museum, by the Hon. William Macleay. This unique specimen 

 is about three feet long from the hinder part to the apex of the 

 arms, the body is about eighteen inches long, and eighteen inches 

 broad, deeply notched at the lower margin and peaked in the 

 centre at the neck, and arched on each side ; the head is about 

 eighteen inches from the body to the apex of the arms. It is of a 

 dark brown olive colour, quite smooth, the tentacles are about two 

 feet long, the cups on the arms do not corresjiond with any known 

 species, nor do the cups on the tentacles ; it is very like Sepia 

 tuherculata of Lamarck, but no tubercles exist on the surface and 

 it is much longer. Se2na vermiculata of Quoy and Gaim., is very 

 like it, but is only fifteen inches long ; most of the species how- 

 ever of the Genus, have been described from the shell. 



Mr. Palmer exhibited foliage of Peach tree affected by a small 

 fungoid growth ; also a small branch of Grevillea robusta attacked 

 by a species of Tinea ; an Orange branch attacked by black blight 

 and coccus ; an Apple stem and leaves attacked by American 

 blight, and a Quince fruit destroyed by a species of weevil. 



Mr. J. Douglas-Ogilby exhibited a species of Platycephalus, 

 which he believed to be new. Prom its unusually strong dentition 

 he proposes for it the name Macrodon. He purposes to describe it 

 at next Meetine:. 



