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posit from which Burramys parvus and Palaeopetaurus elegans have already 

 been described by the writer, adds considerably to our knowledge of the 

 smaller Marsupial fauna of the later Tertiary period. Of existing forms 

 there have been found Petaurus hreviceps, Dromicia nana, Phascologale ßavipes, 

 P. penicillata and some detached teeth referred to Thylacinus cynocephalus. 

 Besides these are found a presumably new species of Macropus for which 

 the name of M. ivomheyensis is proposed, a new species of Pseudochirus {P. 

 antiquiis), a new species of Perameles [P. ivomheyensis) and an extinct variety 

 of the existing Potorons tridactylus . A few bones of a large Echidna are refer- 

 red to E. Oiveni. There are also innumerable remains of bush rats [Mus sp.), 

 together with a few bones of small birds and lizards. — 3) The Entomology 

 of Australian Grass Trees [Xanthorrhaea). By W. W. Froggatt. The life- 

 histories or habits of a number of insects which either breed in the stems of 

 the grass tree or feed upon its foliage are treated of. Among them are 

 Coleoptera (10 species). Diptera (4), Coccidae (2), Lepidoptera (1). — 4) On 

 the Galaxias from Mount Kosciusko. By J. D. Ogilby (Communicated 

 by C. Hedley, F.L.S.) After reviewing its history and describing the 

 species [G. Findlayi, Mel.) from a fine series, obtained from streams 

 on both watersheds of the Australian Alps, the author gives an account of 

 the curious distribution of this fresh -water family of fishes with special 

 reference to its Antarctic origin, and concludes with a list of the known 

 forms, holding that far too many species had been made by scientists who 

 relied too much on contour and coloration , both of which characters 

 are most inconstant. — Mr. North exhibited the types of the new genus 

 and species of birds obtained by the members of the "Horn Expedition" in 

 Central Australia, and described by him in the July number of "The Ibis" 

 for 1895, also more fully in the "Report of the Horn Scientific Expedition," 

 Part II. Zoology, just published. The genus Spathopterus formed for the 

 reception of the Princess of Wales' Parrakeet is a most extraordinary one. 

 The fully adult male, of which a beautiful specimen was exhibited, has the 

 end of the third primary prolonged half an inch beyond the second and ter- 

 minating in a spatulate tip. It is entirely difi'erend from the wing of any 

 other bird found in Australia, but the peculiar terminations of the third pri- 

 maries resemble somewhat the tail-like appendages to the lower wings of 

 the Queensland butterfly Papilio idysses. The new species comprised the 

 following: — Rhipidura albicauda^ Xerophila nigricincta, Ptilotis Keartlandi^ 

 Climacteris supercilinsa, Turnix leucogaster ^ and Calamanthvs isabellimis, a sub- 

 species of C. campesiris, (ìould. — Mr. Hedley exhibited on behalf of Mr. 

 J. Jennings some living Stromhus hthuanus from Vaucluse. As none had 

 been observed alive for several years it had been feared that this interes^ng 

 colony, the most southern recorded of this species, had become extinct, a 

 fear happily now shown to be unfounded. — Mr. Rainbow showed a Syd- 

 ney spider [Celaeria excavata, Koch) which mimicks the excreta of a bird. 

 Also examples of the eggbags of the same species, which in appearance re- 

 semble the kernels of the Quandong [Fusanus] . — Mr. Froggatt exhibited 

 specimens of the insects fre(iuenting the four species of Xant//orr/ioea to be 

 found in the County of Cîumberland, together with drawings illustrative of 

 the life-history of some of them. Also a living specimen of the "Thorny 

 Lizard' [Moloch horridus, Gray), received by post from Kalgoolie, W.A. 

 Mr. Froggatt likewise communicated some observations on the habits of this 



