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3 feet 6 inches. He proposed for this fine species the name of Maclrayanœ . 

 — Mr. Fletcher read a note on an introduced Planarian [Bipalium sp., 

 very like and possibly identical with B. Ken-ense, Moseley) which has become 

 well established in Sydney, and which, during the damp weather of last 

 month, occasionally appeared in considerable numbers, so that in the morn- 

 ings it was (juite a common object on the })avements in Hyde Park, and in 

 the Suburbs. A large specimen was exhibited, as well as a small one origin- 

 ally one of several portions into which a large one divided transversely, and 

 which after about 30 days had already begun to develop the cheese-cutter- 

 shaped anterior extremity so characteristic of the genus. — Dr. liamsay 

 exhibited the new Bird of Paradise described by him, and a specimen of 

 each sex of Faradisomis Rudolplii, Finsch, which differs from all other species 

 of the family in having rich ultra-marine blue wings and tlank plumes ; also 

 examples of the orange-crested bower-bird [Àmhly orina sn/jalnris, Sharpe), 

 and of Charmoayna Joftephinœ. The exhibits, which were obtained near the 

 base of the Astrolabe Range, and were brought from the S. E. coast of New 

 Guinea by Mr. G oldie, have been secured for the Australian Museum. — 

 Mr. Brazier exhibited photographs of two species of Polyzoa [Idvionra 

 Milneana, and /. interjuncta) from Green Point, Port Jackson, (8 fathoms) , 

 taken by Mr. Arthur W. Waters. — Mr. A. Sidney Oil iff of the Austra- 

 lian Museum, exhibited specimens of Alrctoria superba, Brunner von Watten- 

 wyl, a remarkable genus of Orthoptera having a large thoracic crest produced 

 over the base of the elytra; those exhibited were obtained by Mr. K. H. 

 Bennett, at Mossgiel, in the AVestern district. The species was originally 

 described by Brunner from examples obtained at Peak Downs. — Mr. Palmer 

 exhibited specimens of the spider, at i)resent undetermined, wliicli fabricates 

 the remarkable egg-bags, examples of which he had exhibited at tlie March 

 Meeting of the Society. — Mr. Macleay also exhibited some grass infested 

 by a minute grub, which lived in tlie stem and caused a thickening of it. 

 He stated that the grass had been sent for examination under the belief that 

 the prevalence at the ])resent season of large numbers of worms in sheep, 

 miglit in some way bo traceable to the minute worms in the grass. A micro- 

 scopical investigation by Dr. Katz had shown however that the worms in the 

 grass were not Entozoa but maggots of minute Dipterous Insects, probably 

 Cecidomyiadœ or gall gnats, or possibly minute Muscida> of the Oscinides 

 group. The habit >of the insect somewhat resembled that of Cecidomyia 

 destructor, Say, tlie «Hessian Fly«, so destructive of wheat crops in America. 



Bitte. 



Denjenigen geclirten Herrn Fachgenossen, welchem ich im Febr. 

 vorigen Jahres vom American Naturalist, Vol. XIX. 1S85, die 

 Hefte: Januar, Februar, Juni, Juli und November gelielien habe, er- 

 suche ich dringend, mir diese Hefte schleunigst zurückzugeben. Für 

 ihn haben sie einzeln keinen oder geringen Werth, mir wird durch ihr 

 Fehlen der ganze Jahrgang werthlos. 



Prof. J. Victor Car us. 



Druck von Breitkopf Ä Hiiitel in Leipzig. 



