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present known, comprises two Crinoids, sixteen Ophiuroids, twenty-eight 

 Asteroids, twent3--three Echinoids, and twenty-one Holothurians: total, ninety 

 species. It is not homogeneous, nevertheless it contains a large number of 

 peculiar forms which give it a strongly distinct character of its own. Its 

 affinities are strongest with that of Australia. Omitting doubtful and deep- 

 water forms, fifty-eight per cent of the known species are endemic, thirty-six 

 per cent occur in Australia, and only six per cent have been found elsewhere 

 and not in Australia. — 4] Notes on the Subfamily Brachyscelinae^ with 

 Descriptions of New Species. Part v. By W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S. Some 

 critical observations on recent contributions to a knowledge of the group are 

 off"ered: and descriptions are given of three new species of Brachyscelis 

 [B. Sloanei from the Wagga district; B. attenuata from South Australia, and 

 B. floralis from Central Australia); of a new species of Opisthosceîis [O. nigra 

 from Port Macquarie); and of a new Sphaerococcus [S. ferry gineuSj from N. 

 New South Wales, and S. Queensland; on Melaleuca); with notes on the 

 larvae, and on certain other previously described species. — 5) Descriptions 

 of six new Species of Mollusca. By John Brazier, F.L.S. , C.M.Z.S. The 

 species described are Conus Brenchleyi^ the type specimen of which was found 

 inside a living Tapes radiata at Kandavu, Fiji; Cypraea Hossitert, from the 

 collection of the late Mr. George Thomas Rossiter; and four species of Hadra 

 from Queensland. — 6) A Contribution to a Knowledge of the Arachnidan 

 Fauna of New Guinea. By W. J. Rainbow, Entomologist to Australian 

 Museum. [C ont rihuton from the Australian Museum.^) In this paper 68 species 

 are enumerated, and of these 14 are described as new. The most interesting 

 specimen of the collection is a species of the family Avicularidae, for the 

 reception of which a new genus, Antrochares, is proposed. This makes the 

 third known genus of the six-eyed Avicularidae. The other genera to which 

 species are added are: Idiommata, Uloborus, Cyrtop/iora, Araneus, Misumena^ 

 Diaea^ Xysticus, Samtes, Cluhiona, Argoctenw, SLud Aftus. — 7) Descriptions of 

 the Eggs and Nests of four Species of Australian Birds. By Alfred J. North, 

 C.M.Z.S. The nests and eggs of the following birds are described: Ephthianura 

 crocea, Casti, and Rams., Ptilotis waclenyana, Ramt., Myzomela erythr acephala, 

 Gld., and Lophophaps ferruginea, Gld. — Mr. Brazier exhibited a large, partly 

 broken specimen of a flattened Haliotis from Victoria, certainly quite distinct 

 from any of the known Australian species. Also Placostyhis payensis, Kobelt, 

 var. gayettensis, Crosse, having the lip and the interior of the aperture all 

 white, from Gayetta, New Caledonia. — Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited specimens 

 of a Crustacean, PInlyra pisum, de Haan, from Japan, one of them showing 

 a curious abnormal prong-like growth on the dactylos of the left cheiiped. 

 — Mr. T. Steel exhibited the type specimen of the snake Dendrelaphis 

 Schlcnvheri, Ogilby, and a fine series of lizards, all from the collection sent 

 by Mr. Schlencker from Fife Bay, New Guinea. Mr. North communicated 

 a note calling the attention of ornithologists to the fact that examples of the 

 rare Parrakeet, Platycercus Browni, were at present to be seen in a Sydney 

 birddealer's shop. They were received a few days ago from Port Darwin. 

 This was, he believed, the first occasion on which living examples of this 

 species had been seen in Sydney. 



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