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apparently reaching its southern limit at Sydney. I have been unable to 

 find Jonas' original description , and have arrived at the name after compa- 

 rison with specimens so named by Mr. E. A. Smith. At the same place the 

 same collector found numerous detached valves of Cardium cygnorum^ Des- 

 hayes , a species which though well known in the southern colonies, does 

 not seem to have been reported from this coast, where it here arrives at its 

 northern known limit. Another Cardium apparently unnoted from N.S.W. 

 is C. Bechei, Ad. and Reeve, which is represented in the collection of Dr. J. 

 C. Cox from Port Stephens. Thence it extends northwards to Japan.« — 

 Mr. Masters exhibited a collection of 170 species of named Coleoptera, 

 lately received from Mr. Arthur M. Lea, of Western Australia, containing 

 types of all the species described by him in his last paper. The following 

 families were represented: — Malacodermidae 59 species, Pythidae 3, Pedi- 

 Hdae 5, Pyroe/iroidae 2, Mycetophagidae 4, Curculionidae 3, Melandryidae 6, 

 Mordellidae 47, Anthicidae 15, CorylopJddae 20, and a few others. — Mr. 

 Mitchell, Narellan, exhibited some fossils from the Wianamatta Series, in 

 the neighbourhood of Narellan, consisting of insect remains and impressions 

 of a plant apparently belonging to the Taeniopteridae. Mr. Froggatt, of the 

 Technological Museum , had determined the insect remains to be referable 

 to the Families Blattidae and Buprestidae . Of the former there were impres- 

 sions of fragments of wings, and of the latter of an elytron. Mr. Etheridge, 

 Curator of the Australian Museum , to whom the specimens had been sub- 

 mitted, confirmed Mr. Froggatt' s opinion. The plants consisted of frag- 

 ments of leaves showing rows of papillae along each side , or in some cases 

 along one side, of the midrib on the basal portion, which may be sori. The 

 fossil Orthoptera are from a railway cutting on the Great Southern line at 

 Glenlee; the Buprestid and plants from the Great Road about a mile N.E. 

 of Narellan. Mr. Mitchell also exhibited some oolitic limestone found in a 

 sample of lime from Marulan. 



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