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part is a compilation of tlie species which have been identified in samples 

 of sand or other materials obtained from various sources, viz. : — 1) Fora- 

 miniferal sand dredged 16 miles east of Wollongong in 100 fathoms (90 spe- 

 cies, of which 24 have been recorded previously from Port Jackson by Mr. 

 T. Whiteiegge); 2) Foraminiferal sand dredged at Byron Bay in 111 fa- 

 thoms (77 species, of which 24 have been recorded from Port Jackson by 

 Mr. T. Whiteiegge); 3) Beach sand from Lord Howe Island (0 species); 

 4) Coarse foraminiferal sand dredged off Sydney Heads (38 species); 5) Beach 

 sand from Lizard Island (29 species); 6) Raised coral reef sand from the 

 south of the New Guinea coast (4 species); 7) Dredgings in 15 fathoms at 

 Palm Island, near Townsville (18 species); 8) Eocene limestone with Turri- 

 tella, Flabellum, and Bryozoa from an uncertain locality (16 species). Re- 

 presentatives of only a few undeseribed species were met with. The special 

 characteristics of the material dredged by Messrs. C. Hedley and G. H. 

 Halligan off Wollongong (No. 1 in the above list) were found to be that 

 most of the Miliolinac therein were micromorphs ; that the Lageninae were 

 very numerous, the species merging into one another; and that, as Globigerina 

 was by far the most abundant organism, the sample might almost be termed 

 a Globigerina-ooze. 2) Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Part II. By A. 

 Jefieris Turner, M.I)., F.E.S. Some supplementary remarks on the Family 

 Notodonticlae (revised in a previous paper) are offered; and the Family Synto- 

 midae, comprising four genera with forty-four species (of which eight are 

 described as new), is reviewed. 



Mr. Froggatt exhebited specimes of the larvae of the Sheep Nasal or 

 Bot-fly [Oestrus ovis, L.) taken from the heads of sheep killed at Megalong 

 last month. Reports have come ìq from several places on the Blue Moun- 

 tains showing that this pest has been infesting the sheep of late. Also, two 

 very handsome grasshoppers [Yam.. Locusiidae) from Mt. Magnet, Murchison, 

 W.A., lately received from Mr. M an sbridge. 



Mr. Jensen exhibited a series of slides of Foraminifera under the 

 microscope, in illustration of his paper. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited a large miscellaneous collection of objects from 

 New Caledonia, comprising various crustaceans, arachnids (including Ara- 

 neus edidis^ TIeteropoda venatoria^ Linn., and Nepkila maculata. Fabr.), myria- 

 pods, dragon-flies, Cieads, Coleoptera destructive to mangoes and oranges, 

 Hymenoptera and their nests, Mollusca (including the rare Neritopsis radula^ 

 with operculum; the rare Pedicularia elegantissima^ Desh., from Lifou, Loy- 

 alty Islands, anew record; a sinistral variety of Placostglus Jibratus, and a 

 dextral distorted from from Mare, Loyalty Islands ; F. Bondeensis^ distorted 

 at the suture above the aperture; a flne series oï Leucoc/iarus porphgrocM/a 

 from Houailou, Central Chain of Mountains; a fine series of Cypraea Brege- 

 riana\ a series of the representatives of 200 species of small molluscs, in 

 tubes, from Lifou, Loyalty Islands; an assortment of pearls; and some very 

 large mother-of-pearl shells [Melcagrina)\ carved and etched); together with 

 geological and botanical specimens. 



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