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set Hull exhibited a skin and an egg of the White-faced Storm-Petrel [Pela- 

 ■godrovia marina Latham), and eggs of the Little Penguin [Eudyptula minor 

 Gould), taken by him on Tom Thumb Ishand (Five Islands Group) near 

 Wollongong, X.S.W., on 17th October, 1909. The island, barely half an 

 acre in extent, was inhabited by a colony of about one hundred Storm-Petrels, 

 breeding in burrows in the sand a few inches beneath the roots of Mesem- 

 bryanfhemum sp. The burrows were from 2-4 feet in length, with small 

 semicircular entrances. On the south-eastern side, where the first arrivals 

 had made their homes, the burrows contained partly incubated eggs; on the 

 middle of the island the eggs were fresh, while on the north-western side 

 the latest arrivals were sitting in their completed burrows, preparatory to 

 laying. The eggs were laid on the bare sand, or on a few sprigs of salt-bush 

 [Atriplex sp). The bird exhibited was a male, and was taken while sitting on 

 an egg. The Penguins were found in crevices of the rocks beyond reach of 

 the breakers, or in shallow burrows amongst the vegetation at the top of the 

 island. Their nests contained in most instances heavily incubated eggs or 

 young birds in all stages of growth. Hitherto the Storm-Petrel has not been 

 recorded as breeding on the coast of New South Wales, Mud Island, Port 

 Phillip, being the most northerly limit on record. The Penguins are known 

 to breed on Montague Island, and the Tollgates, off Batemann's Bay, and 

 this adds another more northerly record of the breeding-place of this species. 

 Puffmiis chlororhynchns Lesson, and Demiegretta sacra Gmelin, were also 

 observed preparing their nests on Tom Thumb Island. — Mr. C. V. Laseron, 

 by permission of the Curator, Technological Museum, exhibited a remarkable 

 specimen of Conidaria laecigata Morris [Mollusca] which was lately forwarded 

 to the Museum by Mr. H. Melville, School-teacher at Lochinvar near Mait- 

 land N.S.W., who obtained it from that district. Very little is known ol' the 

 aperture in this genus, so that the specimen, which has this structure very 

 well preserved, is of considerable scientific value. In this case the four walls 

 of the shell are bent sharply inwards into the aperture", a fortunate fracture 

 having revealed that they continue downwards into the shell, with a gradual 

 convergence for at, least •'/5 of an inch, the cavity below this point being 

 filled with matrix. The ornamentation is also continued without interruption 

 on the infolded portions of the sides. — Mr. T. H. Johnston exhibited a 

 series of Entozoa collected in New South. Wales. The following species were 

 represented: — Hymenolcpis sp. (immature), from the intestine of a duck 

 (Bathurst); H. carioca Magaelh., Davainea cesticillus Molin, and D. tetragona 

 Molin, from the intestine of fowls (Sydney, Bathiirst); Ecliinorhynclms sp., 

 'from the rectum of the black snake, Pseudecliys porphyriaeus Shaw, (Gosford, 

 Sydney); Physaloptera sp., from the stomach and duodenum of the tiger- 

 snake, Notechis scutatus (Sydney) Oesophagostommn sp., a very small reddish, 

 species which sometimes occurs in hundreds in the upper part of the duode- 

 num of Mus decumanus Pall., (Sydney); Hymenolejiis murinaDxij., Giganto- 

 rhynchus moniliformis Bremser, and Trichocephalus nodosus Kud., from the 

 intestine of il/, aiexandrimts GeoSr., (Sydney); Trichodes crassicauda 'BeWing- 

 ham, from the bladder of J/, rattiis Linn., M. alexandrinus Geoffr., and M. 

 museulus Linn. (Sydney), this parasite being apparently unrecorded from 

 these three hosts in other parts of the world, though it is fairly common in 

 the bladder of 31. decumanus in this State. — 1) Revision of Australian 

 Curculionidae, Subfa'm. Cryptorhynchides. Part X. By A. M. Lea, F.E.S. 



