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Snake) ; Cacophis blackmanii, Krefft (Blackmail's Snake) ; 

 Dendrophis punctata, Gray (Green Tree Snake); Dipsas fasca, 

 Gray (Brown Tree Snake) ; Aspidiotus melanocephalus, Krefft 

 (Black-headed Snake). Also Lizards — Chlamydosaurus kinyii, 

 Gray ; Diporophera australis (Steindw.) ; (Edtira robusta, Blgr. 

 By Mr. J. A. Kershaw. — Specimen of Holoihila healhii, Cox, 

 male, from larva taken at Trafalgar, Gippsland, December, 

 1892, with pupa; first time recorded from Victoria. By Mr. 

 Lidgett. — Coloured drawing showing the variations of the moth 

 J'orina Jusco-maculata (in illustration of paper) ; illustration of 

 the various stages of the butterfly- Belenois teutonia, Fabr. (with 

 its food plant) ; coloured drawing of a Victorian orchid (from 

 Lerderderg Ranges) ; snake in spirit ; an agglutinated mass of 

 cocoons of a species of Victorian Sawfly. By Baron von Mueller. 

 — The following Australian plants (new to science) : — Utricularia 

 holtzei, U. kaminskii, from Adelaide River, collected by M. 

 and N. Holtze ; Aristolochia holtzei, near Port Darwin, collected 

 by N. Holtze ; Solarium lucani, from Cambridge Gulf, collected by 

 A. Lucanus ; also Gymodoaa zosterifolia with pistillate flowers, 

 collected by J. Bracebridge Wilson at Western Port. By Mr. J. 

 E. Prince. — Fossil nuts from the Working Miners' Gold Mining 

 Company, Homebush, from a depth of 300 feet, extracted from 

 the alluvial drift. By Mr. G. Sweet. — Fossil Starfish; from Upper 

 Silurian rocks of Kilmore — Petr aster smythi, M'Coy ; Urasterella 

 selwyni, M'Coy; specimens of the latter also from Moonee Ponds. 

 [Sir Frederick M'Coy, in his " Decades," mentions Petraster from 

 Moonee Ponds ; by these specimens we now have Urasterella for 

 that locality. The same authority also gives Urasterella for 

 East Kilmore, but by these specimens we also have Petraster 

 smythi from that locality ; indeed, both Petraster and Urasterella 

 are contained on the same stone. — G. S.] 



REMARKS ON SOME ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 



By Thomas Steel, F.C.S. 



{Concluded from page 150.) 



In Sydney the Zoological collection at Randwick Park is by no 

 means large. There are, however, some very fair specimens of 

 various kinds, especially amongst the large carnivora and the 

 monkeys. A visitor from abroad would, however, be disappointed 

 in the small representation of our indigenous animals. 



Adelaide possesses a very good collection, of very much the 

 same character as that in the Melbourne Gardens, and the animals 

 are evidently intelligently and well cared for. 



I am pleased to bear testimony to the good order and attrac- 



