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further highly ornate Boomerangs from New South Wales and Queensland. 

 ByR. E. Etheridge, Junr. — 3) Note on the Occurrence of Callosities in 

 Cypraea other than C. bicallosa and C. rhinocerus : And on the presence of 

 a Sulcus in Trivia australis. By Agnes F. Kenyon. (Communicated by J. 

 Brazier.) — 4) On a new Genus and Species of Australian Fishes. By J, D. 

 Ogilby. (Communicated by T. Whitelegge.) The genus Apogonops is 

 proposed for a small fish of puzzling affinities from Maroubra Bay. At a 

 first glance it would seem to be naturally referable to the family Apogoni- 

 dae. But this view is precluded by the absence of vomerine teeth and the 

 number of its dorsal spines, unless it is to be considered as aberrant Apo- 

 gonid with sciaenoid affinities. — 5] Catalogue of the Described Coleoptera 

 of Australia. Supplement. Part II. Dytiscidae and Staphylinidae By George 

 Masters, — Mr. Hedley called attention to specimens of Fimia marina^ 

 Forskal, collected at Maroubra Bay, on February 9th, 1896, by Mr. Ï. White- 

 legge, who first found the genus in Australia last year, the discovery being 

 recorded in Proc. Malac. Soc. I. p. 333, footnote. The first examples found 

 were swimming free, and were tinted that shade of dark blue common to 

 lanthina, Glaucus^ Porpita, Velella, Phy salia and other pelagic animals. In 

 the present instance they were of a pearl-grey colour, and were sunk in 

 deep grooves evidently gnawed by themselves in fragments of an indetermi- 

 nate species of Sepia shell, upon which grew examples of Lepas ansifera about 

 10 mm in length. With them were associated several masses of ova, resembl- 

 ing those figured by Bergh (Result. Camp. Scient. Prince Monaco, Fase. IV. 

 PL I. f. 16). In support of the suggestion that the coloration of these spe- 

 cimens was a protective adaptation to the colour of the Sepia, the molluscs, 

 ova and cuttlebone were exhibited. — Mr. Hedley also reported that on 

 March 8th last Mr. Whitelegge had further increased the list of Australian 

 genera by the discovery of the specimens of Firoloides Desmaresti , Lesueur, 

 which were exhibited on behalf of the finder. Two males and three females 

 were thrown by the waves on the sandy beach at Maroubra Bay, and were 

 so little injured as to swim about actively for some hours in a vessel of sea- 

 water. The species had been identified by the excellent figures in PI. XVI 

 of the »Voyage de la Bonite : Zoologiecc. The bibliography of this species 

 brought down to a late date would be found in Challenger Reports, Vol. XXIII, 

 Heteropoda, p. 22. Like the preceding , this genus is not included in Prof. 

 Tate's census (Trans. Roy. Soc. 1888, p. 70 — 81), but an undetermined 

 species of Firoloides had been recorded from Bass Straits by Dr. Macdonald 

 (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, VoL XXIII, 1862). — Mr. Edgar R. Waite 

 exhibited a large number of living young Green Tree Snakes [Dendrophis 

 ptmctulata) , the property of Mr. A. P. Kemp, of Kempsey. These snakes 

 were hatched in captivity, the eggs having been obtained at Unkya, on the 

 Macleay River. In a gully, at this place, individuals of the species were said 

 to exist, not in scores, but in hundreds; and in view of the large number 

 exhibited at the meeting the statement was by no means difficult of belief. 

 — In illustration of Mr. Kenyon' s paper; Mr. Brazier exhibited specimens 

 of Cypraea helvola, C. tahescens, C. erosa., C. miliaris., C. lynx, and C. carneola, 

 all showing callosities; a colour variety of C. angustata\ and examples of 

 Trivia australis with a distinct dorsal sulcus , a character not in conformity 

 with the generic definition. 



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