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observations were chiefly made in the LoAver Darling district. — Mr. Mac- 

 ie ay exhibited in illustration of his Paper on the Genus Lamprinui, all the 

 known species of the genus, excepting L. Krefftii, the type of which is in 

 the Australian Museum. Mr. French's beautiful species L. Muelleri excited 

 much attention. — Dr. R,. von I^endenfeld exhibited a Siphonophore of 

 the Genus Diphyes, found at Bondi by Mr. Whitelegge. — Mr. Masters 

 exhibited well mounted specimens of two very rare Australian Butterflies, 

 Xenica Kershawi from Victoria, and Heteronympha Digglesi from Five Dock, 

 near Sydney. — Mr. Made ay read a note from Mr. Wilkinson, enclosing 

 some interesting notes on the habits of the Aborigines, by Dr. Turner, Bi- 

 shop of Grafton. — Mr. E. P. Ramsay exhibited (1) on behalf of Mr. 

 K. H. Bennett, of Mossgiel, the eggs of Falco subniger, and of the Glareola 

 grallaria, mentioned in his paper ; also the following rare eggs : — (2) Gy- 

 poictinia melanosternon, Menura Victoriae and Astur radiatus. (3) Some new 

 birds from the Astrolabe Range of New Guinea, including the following : — 

 Parotid Lawesii, a small but distinct species allied to P. sexpennis ; Lophorina 

 superba minor, a small form of Lophorina superba ; a male and female of a 

 species of Gallus, jungle fowl, remarkable for the great development of the 

 spurs, and apparently different from all other varieties. (4) A new and beau- 

 tifully marked species of Retaster, recently dredged in Port Jackson. (5) A 

 new Bat, Taphozous^ sp., received from Mr. G. Barnard, from the Dawson 

 River. He also, on behalf of Mr. Smithurst, exhibited some interesting and 

 rare semi-fossil shells from the Muddy Creek deposits, near Hamilton, 

 Victoria, among these were a new species of Trigonia, a new Telicaria, a 

 fine large perfect specimen of Murex areolatus and Voluta undulaia Lamarck. 

 — Dr. J. C. Cox exhibited a large Cephalopoda belonging to the family 

 Sepiidae and genus Sepia, which had been recently presented to the Austra- 

 lian Museum, by the Hon. William Macleay. This unique specimen is about 

 three feet long from the hinder part to the apex of the arms, the body is 

 about eighteen inches long, and eighteen inches broad, deeply notched at 

 the lower margin and peaked in the centre at the neck, and arched on each 

 side ; the head is about eighteen inches from the body to the apex of the 

 arms. It is of a dark brown olive colour, quite smooth, the tentacles are 

 about two feet long, the cups on the arms do not correspond with any known 

 species, nor do the cups on the tentacles; it is very like Sepia tuberculata of 

 Lamarck, but no tubercles exist on the surface and it is much longer. Sepia 

 vermiculata of Quoy and Gaim., is very like it, but is only fifteen inches 

 long ; most of the species however of the Genus, have been described from 

 the shell. — Mr. J. Douglas-Ogilby exhibited a species of Platycephalus , 

 which he believed to be new. From its unusually strong dentition he pro- 

 poses for it the name macrodon. He purposes to describe it at next Meeting. 

 27th May, 1885. — 1. Note on the Brain of Halicore australis Owen. 

 ByN. de Miklouho-Maclay. The Baron gives here a detailed account 

 of the Anatomy of the Dugong' s Brain, with several illustrations. He ex- 

 presses a hope that further observations may be made by those having oppor- 

 tunities, so as to make our knowledge on the subject more complete. — 

 2. Botanical. — 3. Two new Australian Lucanidae. By AVilliam Macleay, 

 F.L.S., etc. A new species of Ryssonotus, remarkable for its wide triangu- 

 lar head and deeply striated elytra, is described under the specific name of 

 laticeps, and a genus [Homolamprima] is formed for the reception of a species 



