OCCASIONAL NOTES 



v.— THE GENERIC NAME CREFIDOGASTER. 



In conseciuence of i'emo\'al from Sydney I was unable to see 

 proofs of my paper " Descriptions of and Notes on some Australian 

 and Tasmanian Fishes," published in the preceding number oi the 

 " Records."' In writing, I had overlooked the fact that the name 

 Crepidogaster is not available in Fishes. 



On page 201, I followed Giinther in using (Jri'jndtxidsfci- for a 

 genus in Gobiesocidpe, but this name, applied to fishes in 1861, 

 was previously used by Boheman (1848),- for a genus of Coleo- 

 pterous insects. 



I therefore propose the name ASPASMOfrASy'/'JIi as a substi- 

 tute for Crepid()yaHtfr in Fishes. 



ED(i\K R. Wa rnc. 

 Canterbury Museum, 



Christchurch, N.Z. 



19th July, 1906. 



VI._NOTE ON AN UNUSUAL SET of STONE 

 PLOVER'S EGGS. 



The Curator handed me for examination, from Mr. Norman 

 Etheridge's collection, a remarkable set of eggs of the Stone- 

 Plover (CEdicnemus (jrallarius; Lath.). It comprises for this 

 species the unusual number of four eggs. They were fresh, and 

 all found together in a scantily grass-lined depression in the earth 

 at Bargo by Mr. G. Hambridge, on the 20tli September, 1 906. 

 Presumably it is the result of two females laying in the same nest 

 for the eggs are of two fairly distinct types varying in tlie inten- 



1 Waite -Kec-. Austr. Mus., vi., 3, 1906, p]j. 194 ami 201. 



■•* Eoheiiiaii — Ins. Caifr.. i., 1H48, ]>. 6H,Ji)h Creininin<i(n- and Harold. 



