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land. By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Maps, photographs, and 

 specimens in illustration of his paper. By Mr. A. Coles. — 

 Warty-faced Honey-eater, King Lory, and Australian Roller- 

 bird. By Mr. C. French, jun. — Live Carpet Snake, 7 feet 

 9 inches long, from Riverina, N.S.VV. By Mr. S. W. Jackson. — 

 The type eggs of the Rufous Scrub-bird. By Mr. G. A. Keart- 

 land. — Eggs of Short-winged and Moth-plumed Podargus (placed 

 in one species in the new " Vernacular List of Birds "). By Mr. Jas. 

 A. Kershaw.— Specimens of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, &c., collected 

 at Lower Ferntree Gully, and the following Lepidoptera : — Pilo- 

 prepes anassa (very rare), from Dandenong ; Persicoptera pulehrin- 

 nlis and Lozostoma comptella, from Sandringham; Atychia indigena, 

 from Dandenong ; also a lizard, Ci/clodics nigroluteus. By Dr. 

 W. Macgillivray. — Eggs of the Blood-stained Cockatoo. By Mr. 

 F. Spry. — Bred specimen of the Large Wood-brown Butterfly, 

 Ejnnephile aheonu, and chrysalis of same ; egg, caterpillar, and 

 chrysalis of butterfly, lahnenus myrsilus, from Ferntree Gully. 

 By Mr. A. WoUen. — Orchids preserved in formalin solution. 

 After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



EXCURSION TO HEIDELBERG. 



As usual with excursions to this locality " pond life " was the 

 object in view on Saturday, 19th November. As the lagoon 

 near the bridge had been visited by some of the party a week 

 previously and found unproductive, it was decided to try a 

 lagoon in the grounds attached to Springbank, where some most 

 interesting forms of Rotifera were at once met with, such as 

 Megaloiricha albojiavicans, and three species of Lacinularia — 

 L. pedunculata, L. socialis, and L. reticulata. The colonies of 

 the last-mentioned species were of extraordinary dimensions. 

 One, apparently formed by the coalescence of three distinct 

 groups, must have included many thousands of individuals, as it 

 was nearly an inch in diameter. This species was first described 

 by Messrs. H. H. Anderson and Shephard some years ago, who 

 mentioned it as then being found in small colonies of not more 

 than a dozen individuals each. The specimens then found must 

 have been young colonies, as similar small groups were found in 

 the jars a week or so later, being evidently offshoots from the 

 large colonies taken on this occasion. This form was found, 

 from observations made later, to differ in its life-history from L. 

 pedunculata, the young forms of which always leave the colony to 

 form a fresh one, whereas in L. reticulata the young animals take 

 up a position in the colony, and thus render possible the for- 

 mation of such large colonies as those now recorded. — J. 

 Shephard. 



