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overlooked by collectors, so that others doubtless remain yet to be discover- 

 ed. Larva with 10 prolegs, seldom almost apodal; usually mining in leaves 

 or amongst seeds or in stems, sometimes case-bearing, rarely amongst spun 

 leaves. — 2) Note on the Occurrence of Sponge Remains in the Lower Si- 

 lurian of New South Wales. By W. S. Dun. Until last year fossiliferous 

 rocks of Ordovician age were not known to occur within the geographical 

 boundaries of New South Wales. A species of Protosponpa, associated with 

 Graptolites in a bluish slate, is recorded from Stockyard Creek, County of 

 Wellesley, N.S.W. The specimens, which are pyritised and show no great 

 amount of detail, were collected by M. J. E. Came, of the Department of 

 Mines. The Wellesley Beds are probably of the same age as those of the 

 Castlemaine and Bendigo Districts of Victoria, certain fossils from which 

 have been reported upon by Mr, T. S. Hall. — 3) Botanical. — In regard 

 to a fish exhibited by Mr. Baker, Mr. Ogilby pointed out the presence of 

 luminous discs, which he believed were of use as traps; he also remarked 

 that no articulation of the scales so as to form "a coat of mail" existed in 

 Australian specimens, such as is attributed to Monocentris japoniciis. The 

 presence of two separate dorsal fins removes this genus from the Bcrycidae, 

 and its nearest ally is the rare deep-sea Anomalops, with which it agrees also 

 in the presence of luminous glands and of membranous interspaces between 

 the bones of the cranium. — Mr. Brazier sent for exhibition six specimens 

 of Helix vermiculata, Müller, obtained alive by him on July 13th, 1897, on 

 the bufi"allo-grass in the Waverley Cemetery. This is the first Australian 

 record of this introduced European species, whose home is France , Spain, 

 Italy, «fee. — Mr. W. S. Dun exhibited, on behalf on the Geological Mu- 

 seum, a very fine natural section of Receptacnlites from Portion 117, Parish 

 Warroo, County Murray. The section shows that this basin-shaped sponge 

 had a transverse diameter of about 5^2 i^^-j ^ comparatively large size for the 

 genus. The thickness of the sides is '55 in.; the spicules are stout, up to 

 •06 of an inch in diameter. The summit and basal plates and also the large 

 axial canal of the spicules are to be seen. The species is widely separated 

 from R. at(simlts, Salter, and is a new species. — Also specimens of Proto- 

 spongia from Parish of Alexander , County Wellesley , in Lower Silurian 

 slates. — Mr. Hedley exhibited, by permission of the Curator of the 

 Australian Museum, a specimen of Cancellaria granosa, Sowerby, taken from 

 the stomach of a Schnapper hooked nine miles east of Wollongong, N.S.W., 

 in 30-40 fathoms. An interest attached to this specimen is that though the 

 species is well known in Tasmania, Victoria, and South Australia, it has not 

 apparently been recorded previously from the coast of N.S.W. Mr. Hedley 

 remarked that an exploration of the deep, cold-water current that lay off 

 the coast would result in adding many other southern forms to our known 

 fauna. A previous instance of such is the record [P. L.S.N. S.W. (2) iv. 

 p. 749] of Crassatella Icmgicola, Lamk., a characteristically Tasmanian species 

 trawled in 17 fathoms off Merimbula, N.S.W. If fishermen could be induced 

 to search the stomachs of fishes, a mass of valuable data would soon accu- 

 mulate. — Mr. North ofi'ered some remarks on the great progress made in 

 Papuan ornithology of recent years, owing principally to the large collections 

 formed under the direction of the present Administrator, Sir William Mac- 

 gregor, K.C.M.G., during his official visits to different parts of British New 

 Guinea. Mr. C. W. De Vis, the Cxirator of the Queensland Museum, who 



