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EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. E. Anderson. — Specimens of the moth Bomhijx Iri- 

 maculata, bred from larvre collected near Melbourne. 



By Miss S. W. L. Cochrane.— Painting of Tetratheca ciliata. 



By Mrs. C. French, jun. — -13 Argonaut shells, Argonauta 

 nodosa, varying in size from r inch to 6 inches in diameter. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Fungus, Microcera tasmanice, 

 M'Alpine, destroying the Mussel Scale, Mytilaspis pomorum. 



By Mr. G. A. Keartland. — Birds and eggs from Riverina, in 

 illustration of paper. 



By Mr. A. E. Kitson, F.G.S.— Glaciated pebbles from the 

 recently discovered glacial beds of permo-carboniferous age on 

 the N.W. coast of Tasmania, at Wynyard, Table Cape. Samples 

 of rocks forming glacial conglomerate, Wynyard. Impure lime- 

 stones of Eocene (?) age, showing fossil molluscs and leaves on 

 same specimen, from Mitchell's Creek, near Wynyard. Tasmanite, 

 with marine fossils, consisting of Lamellibranchs, Gasteropods, and 

 Brachiopods, from the permo-carboniferous beds on the Mersey 

 River, near Lalrobe, Tasmania. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



NOTE ON THE GREEN SANDPIPER, HELODROMAS 



OCHROPUS, TEMM. 



By Robert Hall. 



{Read he/ort the Field Naturalists' CJuh of Victoria, 13</« Jan., 1902.) 



Hitherto this genus, closely allied to Totanus, has not been 

 recorded as found in Australia. The specimens on the table 

 were forwarded to me from the estuary of the Fitzroy River, 

 North-West Australia, by my correspondent, Mr. J. P. Rogers. 

 I had intended to give the title of this paper as " A New Species 

 of Helodromas," but upon consideration of analogies I would 

 rather treat my four specimens as forming an undescribed phase 

 of //. ochropus, and record their divergence from the descrip- 

 tion in the " British Museum Catalogue of Birds," vol. xxiv., p. 

 437 (R. B. Sharpe). 



What is plainly seen in these four specimens and those re- 

 corded by Dr. Sharpe are the following points : — 



1. The culmen varies between i.i and 1.5 inches. 



2. The tarsus varies in length between 1.2 and 1.55 inches. 



3. That the rump is not always white, in contrast to the 



back, as the Fitzroy River specimens show a uniform 



brown rump (adult), and one whose feathers are slightly 



tipped with white. 



The key to the species given on j). 437 of the Catalogue quoted 



does not seem to me to be in agreement with the same region 



