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Twenty-one species were enumerated as represented in the collection, of 

 which the following were described as new: — Crocidura Whiiaìceri, Mus per e- 

 (/rinuSj and Lepus atlanticus. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



November 24th, 1897. — 1) — 3) Botanical. — 4] On some Australian 

 Eleotrinae. Partii. By J. Douglas Ogilby, Five additional species of 

 Australian eleotrins are described in this paper, namely — Carassiops [Cau- 

 lichihys) Guentheri; Carassiops [Austrogohio) Gain, sp.nov. ; Krefftius adspersus\ 

 Eleotris fuscus and Ophiorrhinus angustifrons, sp. nov. — 5) On two new 

 Australian Fishes. By J. Douglas Ogilby. The two species described are 

 Harengula stereolepis, from Torres' Straits, and Decapterus leptosomus, a 

 Mackerel-Scad which annually visits Port Jackson but has hitherto escaped 

 notice. — 6) A Contribution to the Zoology of New Caledonia. By J. Dou- 

 glas Ogilby. After alluding to the meagreness of our knowledge of the 

 biology of the island, the author gives a list of the fresh-water fishes refer- 

 able to six species brought back by Mr. Hedley, with observations thereon. 

 He considers that the Kuhlia is fairly seperable from the typical rupestris 

 as a subspecies which he proposes to name Hedleyi, while for Gobius crassi- 

 labrisy a herbivorous form with setaceous pharyngeals, he establishes the new 

 genus Trichopharynx. — 7) On Australian Termitidae. Part iii. By W. W. 

 Froggatt. Eleven species of Termes, of which ten are new, and seven spe- 

 cies of Eutermes, of which five are new, are described. In most cases some 

 account of the nests is also given. — 8) On new Marine Mollusca from the 

 Solomon Islands and Australia. By John Brazier, C.M.Z.S. The Volute 

 described at last Meeting from an imperfect specimen is redescribed from 

 a perfect example which subsequently became available. Descriptions also 

 are given of a new Cone from Flinders, Victoria, of two from the Solomon 

 Islands, and of species of Axinaea from the Gippsland Lakes Entrance, 

 Victoria. — 9) Observations on Papuan Land and Freshwater Shells, with 

 Descriptions of new Species from New Guinea and Western Australia. By 

 C. F. Ancey. (Communicated by C. Hedley.) From Western Australia 

 the new species Trachia Froggatti, T. orthocheila and T. monogramma are 

 described and figured from material collected by Mr. W. Froggatt. New 

 Papuan shells from German New Guinea are Sulcobasis leptocochlea and 

 Chloritis Möllendorffi, with which is figured Pupina Beddomei, described in 

 an earlier volume of the Society's Proceedings. Critical observations on 

 sundry Australian and Papuan shells conclude the paper. — Mr. Edgar R. 

 Waite exhibited 1) examples of Typhlops aluensis, Blgr., from Wai Obi, 

 Vuna Pi, Fiji, where they are known to the natives as "Naota." This species 

 was previously known only from the Solomon Islands, and the new record 

 supplies further evidence of the similarity of the faunas of the two Archipe- 

 lagoes. 2) A New Zealand Fish [Neptotichthys violaceus, Hutton) recently 

 caught in Port Jackson and the first recorded occurrence in Australian 

 waters. 3) Two photographs, taken at Layson Island (Hawaiian Islands) ; 

 one exhibits an immense concourse of Albatrosses (identified by Mr. A. J. 

 North as Diomedea immutabilis, Rothschild) incubating their eggs. 



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