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ed by a short description of the trunk-arterial system. As regards the 

 anatomy, Mr. Smith appeared to have worked out for the first time the com- 

 parative morphology of the skeletal muscles of the Monotremes as determined 

 by their innervation. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., read a paper upon 

 certain points in the visceral anatomy of Ornitiwrhynchus. The paper dealt in 

 the first place with the existence of a free fold passing from the bladder to 

 the liver, where it became continuous with the falciform ligament of the 

 liver. This fold, however, exhibited no traces of an anterior abdominal vein. 

 The author also gave a description of the right auriculo-ventricular valve of 

 the heart. In two hearts examined by him the septal flap of this valve was 

 complete, though less conspicuous than the free flap, owing to the fact that 

 it had either no papillary muscles attached to it or that the muscles were 

 very small. — Mr. Boulenger read a »Second Report on Additions to the 

 Lizard Collection in the Natural History Museum«. It contained a long list 

 of species, previously unrepresented in the collection, specimens of which 

 had been acquired since the appearance of the first Report, published in the 

 »Proceedingstf of the Society for 1890. This list was supplemented with the 

 descriptions of several new species. — Prof. E. Jefi'rey Bell called attention 

 to the acquisition by the Natural History Museum of some specimens of 

 remarkable Corals of great size from North-west Australia, of which he 

 showed some admirable photographs taken by Mr. Percy Highley. Prof. Bell 

 urged the necessity of the acquisition of large specimens of Corals, before 

 coming to any conclusion as to their specific distinctions. — P. L. S dater, 

 Secretary. 



3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



November 28th, 1894. — 1) Redescription of Aspidites ramsayi, Macl. 

 By Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S. — 2) A Review of the Fossil Jaws of the 

 Macropodidce in the Queensland Museum. By C. W. De Vis, M.A. The 

 very fine collection of over eleven hundred dissociated jaws or portions of 

 jaws in the Queensland Museum has been studied in the light of a knowledge 

 of the nature and range of the variations, individual and specific, presented 

 by the skulls of 479 individuals referable to sixteen existing species. The 

 following species are described as new: — Palor ehestes parvus, St/ienums pales, 

 S. areas. Halmaturus vinceus, H. thor, H. dryas, H. odin, H. indra, H. siva, 

 H. vishnu, Macropits magister, M. pan, and M. faunus. — 3) Notes on some 

 Land Planarians collected by Thos. Steel, Esq., on the Blue Mts., N.S.W. 

 By A. Dendy , D. Sc, F.L.S. — 4) On a British Bivalve Mollusc found in 

 Australia and Tasmania, with its Distribution; and on a new sub-genus of 

 Troclidœ. By J. Brazier , F.L.S., CM. Z. S. Cryptodonflexuosa, Montagu, 

 is now recorded for the first time from Port Stephens, N.S.W., and Espérance 

 Bay, Tasmania. The name Solanderia, Fischer (1880), being preoccupied by 

 Duchassaing and Michelotti (1846), it is now proposed to replace it by 

 Rossiteria. — 5) Description of a new Australian Eel. By J. Douglas 

 Ogilby (Communicated by Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S.) Gymncthorax prionodon, 

 sp.n., from Port Jackson, is closely allied to the Atlantic species G. ocel- 

 lattis. — 6) On a new Typhlops previously confounded with T. unguirostris, 

 Peters. By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. (Communicated by Edgar R. Waite, 

 F.L.S.) — 7) Botanical. By J. H. Maiden. — 8) On a new species of 

 Enteropneusta from the Coast of N.S.W. By James P. Hill, Demonstrator 

 of Biology, Sydney University. The name Ptychodera australimsis is proposed 



