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dence, it is believed of some value, on the question of the classification of 

 the Order. — (2) 3) and 4) Botanical.) — 5) On some Australian Gudgeons 

 [Eleotridinae). By J. Douglas Ogilby. In this paper the author insists on the 

 necessity of splitting up the genus Eleotris, and proposes four new genera, 

 taking as his types Krefft's well known species, as follows: — Carassiops, g.n. 

 for compressus] Kreßiius, g. n. for australis; Mulgoüj g.n. for Coxii] and Op/itor- 

 rhinus^ g.n. iox grandiceps. Full descriptions are given of five species, viz., 

 C. Longi.1 sp. n., K. australis^ M. Coxii, 0. grandiceps^ and 0. nudiceps. Inci- 

 dentally the author gives much interesting information regarding the fish- 

 life to be found in the waterholes of the metropolitan county. — 6) Descript- 

 ions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales, No. 7. By W. J. Rainbow. 

 Three new spiders are described and figured, viz., Epëira coronata (Q), 

 Tachy\g\natha superba (Q), ànà Attus splendens [ç^]. — 7) Contributions to a 

 knowledge of the Arachnidan Fauna of Australia. No. 1. By W. J. Rain- 

 bow. This paper, the first of a new series, is descriptive of a new scorpion 

 [Buthus ßavicruris) from Como, obtained by Mr. J. D. Ogilby. — (8) Bota- 

 nical.) — 9) Description of a new Species of Pupina from Queensland. By 

 C. E. Beddome. — 10) Revision of the Genus Pampsis. Part i. By Rev. 

 T. Blackburn, B.A., Corr. Mem. — 11) The Silurian Trilobites of New 

 South Wales, with references to those of other parts of Australia. Part iv. 

 The Odontopleuridae. By R. Etheridge, Junr., and John Mitchell. — 

 Mr. Edgar R. Wait e exhibited a lizard, Nep/irunts laevisj De Vis, received 

 by the Australian Museum some months ago. Suspecting that its characters 

 were common to both N. laevis and N. platyurus, Blgr., Mr. Waite examined 

 the type of the former species, kindly lent by Mr. De Vis, when it became 

 apparent that the two descriptions applied to the same species — a conclusion 

 in accordance with the views of Messrs. Lucas and Frost, from the exami- 

 nation of a series of specimens from Central Australia. ("Report of the 

 Horn Expedition." ii. p. 116). The exhibited specimen was shown to re- 

 cord a locality intermediate between the known habitats, Queensland and 

 South Australia, the example having been obtained at Bathurst, New South 

 Wales. — Some varieties of Australian Mollusca were shown by Mr. Hedley. 

 On behalf of Mr. Whitelegge an example was exhibited of Pleurobranchaea 

 lunicepSj Cuvier, collected by him at Maroubra Bay. Though this remark- 

 able species, apparently a pelagic form, was described in 1817, so little is 

 known about it that its exact locality has not been before announced. Mr. 

 Pilsbry writing on this form in the present year [Man. Conch. 1) xvi p. 229], 

 proposes for it the subgeneric name Eusekiiops, in lieu of Neda preoccupied 

 in the Coleoptera. — By the courtesy of the Curator of the Australian Mu- 

 seum Mr. Hedley further exhibited examples of Motiodonta Zeus, Fischer, 

 a series described without locality in the Journ. de Conch. 1874, p. 372. 

 Dr. Fischer's shrewd guess that it was of Australian origin is for the first 

 time confirmed by the receipt of instances collected by Mr. Moore at Don- 

 gara, near the mouth of the Irwin River, West Australia. In the same parcel 

 were also Monodonta carbonaria, Philippi, and Haliotis elegans, Kock, both 

 noteworthy and of interest as extending the geographical range of these 

 shells. — Mr. Ogilby exhibited for Dr. Cox a small sole received from Mr. 

 J. K. Earner, caught in fresh water about 58 miles above the mouth of the 

 Richmond River; he identifies it with Aserragodes macleaganus , Ramsay, 

 which had previously been recorded from fresh water in the Hunter River 



