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spending Member. This paper deals with twenty-three species — all but 

 two being new — forming a group distinguished by having ,,the upper 

 margin of labrum rising above the plane of the clypeus. antennae 8-jointed, 

 and claws appendiculate". A tabulation of the species is given. — 2) De- 

 scriptions of a new genus [Batrachomyia, Macleay, MS.) and two species of 

 Dipterous Insects parasitic upon Australian Frogs, By Frederick A. A. 

 Skuse. In this paper the author characterises the hitherto unpublished 

 genus Batrachomyia from specimens of two species, B. nigritarsis and B. 

 quadrilineata, bred from Hyla phyllochroa and Psetidophryne Bibromi, respec- 

 tively. The name B. qtiadrilineata is that attached to the original specimen 

 in the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Macleay with the note ,,in frogs of 

 N.S.W". The same species of frog does not appear to be attacked by more 

 than one kind of fly. The author refers Batrachomyia to the Oscinidae, and 

 judging by the diagnosis of the genus it might be considered identical with 

 Oscinis, but the far greater size of the insects, and their peculiar habit of 

 depositing their eggs beneath the skin of frogs, both give the genus an un- 

 mistakable distinction and, to his mind, justify the retention of Macleay's 

 generic name. — 3) List of Australian Palaeichthyes, with Remarks on their 

 Synonymy and Distribution. Partii. By J. Douglas O gilb y , F.L.S. This 

 paper treats of twenty-five species belonging to the families Notidanidae, 

 Scylliidae, Heterodontidae, Spinacidae, Squatinidae, and Pristiophoridae, 

 seven of which have been added to the Australian fauna since 1884. — 

 4) Note on a rare species of Cypraea [C. venusta, Sower.). By J. C. Cox, 

 M.D., F.L.S. The specimen of C. venusta, Sower. (= C. Thatcheri, Cox), 

 of which illustrations accompany this note , was washed on shore at Cape 

 Naturaliste, and was subsequently exhibited at the recent Melbourne Ex- 

 hibition where it attracted the author's notice. — Dr. Ham s ay exhibited a 

 live specimen of a beautiful snake, Nardoa G liberti, one of several caught 

 and forwarded to him by Mr. James Ramsay, of Wattagoona, N.S.W., a 

 gentleman who has largely contributed to the collections in the Australian 

 Museum. — Mr. North read the following Note : — ,,It may be interesting 

 to know that several of the Gouldian finches have bred in Dr. Ramsay's 

 aviary at the Museum. A pair, ç^ and Q , of the blackheaded phase hatched 

 out on May 13*^ last (1888) three young ones, one of which, although hav- 

 ing a dull-coloured breast, has developed the crimson head of P. mirabilis. 

 There can be now no doubt whatever that P. Gouldiae, the black-headed 

 phase, and P. armitiana, the yellow-headed phase, are merely varieties of 

 P. mirabilis, originally described by Hombron and Jacquinot in the ,,Voy, 

 au Pôle Sud". Many specimens recently brought to Sydney show the various 

 stages of plumage above-mentioned, bearing out Dr. Ramsay's previous 

 statement respecting the various phases of plumage exhibited in this species". 

 — Dr. Cox also exhibited photographs of Tourbo Jourdani^ Kiener, showing 

 the operculum in situ, and its inner side after removal from the shell, all 

 natural size; and offered the following remarks. ,,As the specimen from 

 which the operculum was taken contained it attached to the dead animal, 

 there can be no doubt about its genuineness; it was obtained by my friend 

 Mr. Irvine at Géographe Bay, Western Australia. The shell is about 

 14 centimètres long and 12^/2 wide, and has a decided /)Aasta«e^ö aspect in 

 colour and smoothness of surface ; the operculum is 58 millimètres in its 

 greatest diameter and 55 in the opposite, solid, ponderous, stony, white on 



