NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. North exhibited the types of the new genus and species 

 of birds obtained by the members of the " Horn Expedition " in 

 Central Australia, and described by him in the July number of 

 "The Ibis" for 1895, also more fully in the "Report of the 

 Horn Scientific Expedition," Part ii. Zoology, just published. 

 The genus Spathopterus formed for the reception of the Princess 

 of Wales' Parrakeet is a most extraordinary one. The fully 

 adult male, of which a beautiful specimen was exhibited, has 

 the end of the third primary prolonged half an inch beyond the 

 second and terminating in a spatulate tip. It is entirely 

 different from the wing of any other bird found in Austi'alia, 

 but the peculiar terminations of the third primaries resemble 

 somewhat the tail-like appendages to the lower wings of the 

 Queensland butterfly Fapi/io ulysses. The new species comprised 

 the following : — Rhipidura albicauda, Xerophi/a niyncincta, 

 Ptilotis keartlandi, Climacteris suj)erciliosa, Turnix leucogaster, 

 and Calamanthus isabellinus, a sub-species of C. campestris, 

 Gould. 



Mr. Hedley exhibited on behalf of Mr. J. Jennings some living 

 Strombus luhuanus from Vaucluse. As none had been obsei'ved 

 alive for several years it had been feared that this interesting 

 colony, the most southern recorded of this species, had become 

 extinct, a fear happily now shown to be unfounded. 



Mr. Rainbow showed a Sydney spider { Celceria excavata, Koch) 

 which mimicks the excreta of a bird. Also examples of the egg- 

 bags of the same species, which in appearance resemble the 

 kernels of the Quandong (Fusarius). 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of the insects frequenting 

 the four species of Xanthori^hoea to be found in the County of 

 Cumberland, together with drawings illustrative of the life- 

 history of some of them. Also a living specimen of the "Thorny 

 Lizard" (Moloch horridiis, Gray), received by post from Kalgoorlie, 

 W.A. Mr. Froggatt likewise communicated some observations 

 on the habits of this specimen. 



Mr. Pedley also exhibited a living specimen of Moloch horridus 

 from West Australia. 



Mr. Lucas showed a fossil fish in Wianamatta Shale from 

 Marrickville. 



