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Mr. Sclater proposed to dedicate this bird to its former owner as Calliste 

 Gonidi. — Mr, B oui enger gave the description of a new Frog from Perak, 

 Malacca, which he proposed to name Megalophrys longipes.' — P. L. Scla- 

 ter, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



26th August, 1885. — 1) Botanical. — 2) Catalogue of the Coleoptera 

 of Australia. By George Masters. This is the first of a series of Papers 

 intended by Mr. Masters to make a complete and perfect list of all the known 

 species of Coleoptera in Australia. The present Part comprises the Cicin- 

 delidae and Carabidee, and numbers 950 species. — 3) Descriptions of three 

 new Port Jackson Fishes. By J. Do uglas-Ogilby , Assistant Zoologist, 

 Australian Museum. The three species here described are Scijllium anale ^ 

 Heliastes im?naculaii/s, and Pemp/ieris lineatus. — Mr. Prince exhibited a 

 fine specimen, 10 inches in diameter, of the nidamentary capsule or »shell« 

 of Argonauta nodosa, var. pacifica, washed ashore at Manly. Also a large 

 Orange Cowrie, Cypraea atiranda, 4'/2 inches in length, from Fiji. — Dr. 

 Williams exhibited a collection of arms and implements from the Soudan, 

 including jevalins, shield of hippopotamus hide, curved and double-edged 

 knives of fine steel, a throwing stick like the Australian »fighting boome- 

 rang«, camel-sticks for driving, hats, rosaries always of 33 pieces, phylacte- 

 ries containing a verse of the Koran and worn round arm or neck, a purse, 

 and a sort of skewer used as a comb. — Mr. Made ay exhibited a fine spe- 

 cimen of a Carboniferous fossil, Aviculopecien, found on the beach at Double 

 Bay, and supposed to have been dropped there by a previous possessor. — 

 Mr. Made ay also exhibited a section of a branch of an Orange Tree, com- 

 pletely perforated by the larva of a longicorn beetle. Also three specimens 

 of a beetle found in the perforated wood. The exhibit had been sent by Mr. 

 M. de Meyrick, a Member of the Society, who stated that many Orange trees 

 had suffered in the same way in the neighbourhood of Penrith. Mr. Macleay 

 said the injury was caused by the larva of Monohammus fistulator, a grub 

 destructive to all kinds of fruit trees, but as far his experience went its ra- 

 vages were confined to old or decaying trees, and it would be interesting to 

 know if in any instance it had been found to attack young and vigorous 

 plants. The accompanying beetles were Heteromerous Insects of the genus 

 Amarygmus, and were not in any way the cause of the injury to the tree. — 

 Mr. Brazier exhibited specimens of the following rare shells, Paryphania 

 Hochstetteri , Trophon Cheesemani , Pisania fiavescens, and Patinella fiMva from 

 New Zealand. Also two specimens of an Astreopm-a from Garden Island, 

 Port Jackson. — Mr. Ramsay exhibited specimens of Menura Victoriup, 

 male and female, with nest and egg, from Port Phillip. — Mr. A. Sidney 

 Oil iff exhibited specimens and sketches of Cryptommatns Jansoni, Matt., a 

 curious beetle which was found under the fur of the common rat in Tas- 

 mania, and said that he believed new and interesting species with similar 

 habits might be found in Australia if the smaller mammals were examined 

 when freshly killed. Two allied species were known from Peru, one of 

 which was found in the fur, and also in the nests of mice. The specimens 

 exhibited were captured by Mr. A. Simson and had been obtained from 

 Mr. Morton of the Hobart Museum. 



Druclt von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



