146 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS. 



The following were the principal exhibits of the evening: — 

 By Miss S. W. L. Cochrane. — Shells, &c, from Carrum. By 

 Mrs. Flatow. — Collections of Land and Marine Shells. By Mr. 

 C. French, F.L.S. — Rare Sphingid moths from North Queensland, 

 viz. : — Macrosita severina, Chmrocampa (n. sp.), Cizara ardenia, 

 C'izara (n. sp.), and Sesia (n. sp.) ; also Buprestid beetles new for 

 Australia, viz. : — Ca/odema Wallacei and t'kalcophora Macfarlanei, 

 and 62 species of Australian Buprestidae new to science. By Mr. 

 C. French, jun. — Eggs of Black-fronted Flycatcher, from North 

 Queensland, and egg of White-lhroated Nightjar, from Heyfield, 

 Gippsland. By Master R. Grey.— Shells, &c, from Sandringham. 

 By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G. — Cyperus squarrosus of India, 

 new for Victoria, collected at Wimmera by Mr. F. Reader. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



EXCURSION TO HEIDELBERG. 



Saturday, 12th January, turned out a hot day, but about a 

 dozen members met at Collingwood to take train for a visit to 

 the Heidelberg lagoons. In the shade of the willows an abun 

 dance of pond life was procured. Spherical free-swimming col 

 onies of Lacinularia natans were in abundance, this rotifer having 

 been plentiful for some months past. Sponges, Hydra, Volvox, 

 and a large quantity of Polyzoa were found. Among the objects 

 noted later may be mentioned Brachionus militaris as being ob- 

 served for the first time. The Polyzoa had large numbers of tube- 

 building and other sedentary rotifers attached to the ccenecium, 

 taking advantage of the food supply brought in by the tentacles of 

 their host. Mr. Rousselet's rotifer-killing method proved effica- 

 cious with the Polyzoa, the application of hydrochlorate of cocaine 

 solution stupefying them in a fully extended position, and Fleming's 

 solution fixed them without any further change. — J. Shephard. 



ON A SNAKE NEW FOR VICTORIA. 



By C. Frost, F.L.S. 



( Read before Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 10th Dec, 1894.,) 



The subject of the present note was sent to me by Mr. F. Reader, 

 of Dimboola, to whom I am greatly indebted for a number of 

 specimens forwarded to me at various times. The snake was 

 killed in September last, and reached me about the end of that 

 month. In answer to subsequent inquiries, Mr. Reader informed 

 me that the snake was captured by Mr. Chas. M'Lennan whilst 

 chopping down the trunk of a tree in a paddock owned by his 

 brother, close to the township of Dimboola. 



In colour and habit this snake resembles Hoplocephalus nigro- 

 striatus, Krefft, which is recorded from Rockhampton and Cleve- 



