NOTES AND EXHIBITS, 61 



Mr. Palmer contributed a note describing his experiences after 

 being bitten by a black snake in February last. He also ex- 

 hibited a snake which had attacked a member of his family; and 

 a number of insects from Lawson. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited several specimens of a small freshwater 

 crab which Mr. Whitelegge had kindly examined, and identified 

 as Uymenosoma lacustris, Chilton. The species was originally 

 described from New Zealand, but was subsequent^ obtained in 

 Lord Howe Island by Mr. Whitelegge, who was a member of 

 the Australian Museum party which visited the Island in 18K7. 

 Of this interesting addition to the Tasmanian fauna, the speci- 

 mens exhibited were forwarded by Mr. E. Stuart Dove, who 

 collected them in the north of Tasmania, in a creek at Flower- 

 dale, near Table Cape, and also in Barnard's Creek, a tributary 

 of the Tamar. In the first-mentioned locality the crabs live in 

 the cracks and crevices of submerged decaying wood, and in 

 colour so much resemble their surroundings that they are hardly 

 noticeable until they move. A Gammarus-like crustacean was 

 abundant in the vicinity, and the crabs appeared to be lying in 

 wait for these. In the second locality the crabs were found 

 among tangled masses of waterweed in company with some 

 molluscs. 



