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The paper included the description of a Lobeha, which the 

 author regarded as new, and named L. gouldii, in honour of the 

 finder, Mr. L. H. L. Gould, of Mount Malcolm. The plant 

 flowers profusely late in September, and bears comparatively 

 large violet flowers. He also recorded several plants from 

 Western Australia for the first time. 



Mr. F. G. A. Barnard remarked that in some respects the new 

 Lobelia resembled L. toppii, recently described by Mr. J. G. 

 Luehmann, F.L.S., Government Botanist, also from Western 

 Australia, and that it was a pity specimens had not been for- 

 warded in illustration of the paper. 



4. By Mr. R. Hall, entitled " A New Species of ^^gotheles 

 (Owlet Nightjar)." 



The author briefly pointed out the distinguishing characters of 

 this bird, which had been forwarded to him from Derby, North- 

 western Australia, and which he proposed to name J'jgotheles 

 rufescens, the Rufous Nightjar. The nearest allied species is 

 /E. albertisi, Sclater, from New Guinea. 



The type specimens will be presented to the National Museum, 

 Melbourne. 



Messrs. A. J. Campbell, G. A. Keartland, and D. Le Souiif 

 congratulated Mr. Hall on the good work he was doing in the 

 birds of Australia, and considered the new species a good one. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Mr. E. Anderson read an extract from a recent publication on 

 the new mammal, the Okapi, H elladother him John stoni, resembling 

 an ass and a zebra, from the Congo Free State, portions of which 

 had just been received in England. 



The President took the opportunity of mentioning that Prof. 

 J. W. Gregory, D.Sc, had been elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society of London, and congratulated the Club on the fact that 

 another of its members had received that high honour, 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. E. Anderson. — A series of bred specimens of Selidosema 

 exprimataria. 



By Mr. T. A. Brittlebank — Eggs of the Little Kingfisher, 

 Alcyone fusilla, from North Queensland. 



By Mr. A. Coles. — The skeleton of a Native Cat, the skull of 

 which was firmly fastened within the dried skin of a lizard as 

 when found. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Scale insects, Lecanhim Jrencld, 

 Mask., on banksia, from Cheltenham. 



By Mr. D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S.— Red-shouldered Phasma, 

 Tropidoderus rliodomns, M'Coy. 



After the usual conversazione the meetinu' terminated. 



