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the species. The Ocsirclata is a nearly full-grown nestling, and has some of 

 the down still adhering to the feathers on the abdomen. The colour of the 

 true feathers is a rather deeper shade of slate than that of the adult bird - type) 

 exhibited here in August last. The specimen was taken from a typical nesting 

 burrow at the top of Mount Gower, on 17th October. — Mr. T. H. John- 

 ston exhibited 1) an hydatid cyst [Echinococcus poJi/morpi/us Dies.) from 

 the lung of a goat (collected by Dr. T. L. Bancroft in Queensland): and 

 2i portion of the small intestine of a kangaroo, Macropus giganteus Zimm., 

 showing the pi-esence of CocckUum sp. ^collected by Mr. O. S. Le Souöf at 

 Coonamble, X.S.Wales). Neither of the above parasites had been previously 

 recorded from these hosts in Australia. — Carabidae from Dorrigo, N.S.W. 

 By T. G. Sloane. With an Appendix: Tenebrlonidae from Dorrigo. By 

 J. H. Carter, B.A., J\E.S. — The township of Don-igo is situated in the 

 midst of a heavy forest, about 30 miles west from the port of Coff's Harbour, 

 on a plateau having an altitude of about 2,000 feet above sea-level. A 

 collection of the Carabidae and Tenebrlonidae obtained during a short visit 

 in July, 1910, together with a small supplemental collection furnished by 

 Mr. H. W. Cox, yielded representatives of fifty- two species (including six- 

 teen regarded as undescribed) referable to the former, and thirty-five (in- 

 cluding three undescribed) to the latter. — On some remarkable Australian 

 Libellulinae. Part 111. Further Notes on Gamacinia Othello Tillyard. By 

 lì. J. Tillyard, M. A., F. E. S. — This paper adds a considerale amount of 

 information respecting this beautiful and interesting species. The female, 

 not before known, is described, and a figure of its beautiful wings given. 

 The range of the species is extended from Cooktown to Torres Straits and 

 Port Darwin. An intermediate form, from the Aru Islands, connects this 

 rare species with the common Malayan and East Indian C. gigantea, Brauer. — 

 Contributions to a Knowledge of the Anatomy and Development of the 

 Marsupialia. Xo. I. By T. T. Flynn, B.Sc. — The material investigated 

 was furnished by an adult female Thylacinus with three fairly advanced young 

 in the pouch. The external features of the young are described, together with 

 the genital organs of both the adult and the young, examined by means of 

 microscopic sections. The genital ducts consist on each side of Fallopian 

 tupes, a well defined uterus, long uterine neck ending in a well marked os 

 which is separated from the median vaginal cul-de-sac by a considerable 

 length of duct which has been called the "median vaginal neck." The vaginal 

 cul-de-sacs are completely separated from one another by a partition: a 

 lateral vaginal canal which leads from the cul-de-sac oji each side posteriorly 

 to the urogenital sinus, opens into a well defined cloaca. Eying between 

 the lateral vaginal canals and extending from the median vaginal cul-de-sacs 

 backwards to the urogenital sinus, is a deeply staining cord of tissue which 

 represents the path of the pseudovaginal passage. The plan of the oi'gans 

 diff'ers from that of Perameles mainly in the presence of vaginal necks, and 

 in the absence of the large vaginal caeca, which form such a special feature 

 in the organs of the Bandicoot. 



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