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and other parts of the colony will yield, when systematically searched , a 

 good harvest of earthworms. He therefore appeals to the members of the 

 Society resident in these or other localities, either for information or for 

 specimens put alive into good methylated spiiit, or sent alive packed in a 

 tin box or large bottle , with a little earth and plenty of damp moss. Infor- 

 mation as to the existence or otherwise of earthworms in the plains of the 

 interior would also be very valuable. — 4) Notes on the Distribution of 

 Ceratellafusca, Gray from the Coast of New South Wales. By John Brazier , 

 C.M.Z.S., etc. A number of instances are given of the occurrence of this 

 Hydrozoon near the Heads of Port Jackson. Mr. Brazier also mentions that 

 a specimen sent from the British Museum to the Australian Museum as Ce- 

 ratella fusca Gray, is really Dehitella atrorubens Gray, from Algoa Bay. — 

 In connection with the above paper, Mr. Brazier exhibited specimens of 

 Ceratella fusca Gray, from N. S. Wales coast, Hydractinia echinata Fleming, 

 from England, Dehitella atrorubens Gray, from Algoa Bay, and Chitina eri- 

 copsis Carter, from the Pacific. — Mr. Brazier also exhibited for Mr. Deane 

 specimens of Pecten tegvla Wood, Vola ftimata, Reeve, Patella tramoserica 

 Martyn, and a piece of wood, all obtained while sinking the cylinders for 

 the railway bridge over the Parramatta River at Ryde, at a depth of from 

 30 to 40 feet below the bed of the river. — Mr. John Mitchell exhibited 

 a very fine collection of Silurian fossils from Bowning, near Yass, including 

 a number of Mollusca , of Trilobites [Phacops, Harpes, Bronteus, Acidaspis, 

 and others) ; and several Graptolites , probably undescribed , and certainly 

 the first recorded from N.S.W., showing that the formations there which 

 have hitherto been regarded as Devonian are in reality Silurian, underlying 

 the strata in which the Devonian fossils, which had been supposed to de- 

 termine the age of the whole, were found. Mr. Mitchell also exhibited fossil 

 specimens of marsupial teeth and bones from the caves of Cave Flat , Mur- 

 rumbidgee, these being the first specimens obtained from that locality. — 

 Mr. Macleay exhibited a very large specimen of a female Tragoceras lepido- 

 pterus, Schreibers, which had been cut out of a tree at Mount Victoria. Also 

 the piece of wood from which the Insect had been obtained. He said he 

 would be glad to know the name of the tree , as a clue to the habits of the 

 Insect, which was the finest of our Longicorns, and extremely rare. — Mr, 

 Whitelegge exhibited several microscopical slides of an Hydroid Zoophyte 

 from Bondi Bay, which he identified as the Ceratellafusca, Gray. It is evi- 

 dent from the descriptions given by Bale, and also by Lendenfeld, that 

 neither of them had seen the species, so that this is probably the first record 

 of it since its description in 1868. -^ — 



28*^ July, 1886. — 1) On some New or Rare Fishes from the Austra- 

 lian Region. By E. P. Ramsay , F.R.S.E., etc., and J. Douglas-Ogilby. 

 A few notes are given on the curious Blennoid genus Xiphasia of Swainson, 

 and a description is given of a species — Xiphasia setifer, Swainson — now 

 for the first time taken in Australian waters. Arrhamphus sclerolepis and 

 Gastrotokevs biaculeatus are recorded as fishes not previously seen on the New 

 South Wales coast. — 2) Catalogue of the Australian Coleoptera. Part V. 

 By George Masters. The present part contains the large family of the 

 Curculionidae, numbering over 1200 species, and bringing the total number 

 now catalogued up to 5625. It was stated that probably two more parts 

 would complete the Order Coleoptera. — 3) Miscellanea Entomologica, 



