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Beetle from Victoria. By Thomas G. Sloane. — The insect here described 

 is a species of MorpJmos^ easily distinguished from the only other member of 

 the genus, M. Flindersi. Hab, : Hall's Gap, near Stawell (D. Best and C. 

 French, Junr.). — 6) On the Skeleton of the Snout and Os Carunculae of 

 the Mammary Foetus of Monotremes. By Prof. J. T. Wilson, M.B., Ch.M. — 

 A peliminary Abstract of this Paper was published in the Proceedings for 

 1900, Part I, p. 58. — 7) The Protoconchs of some Port Jackson Gastero- 

 pods. By H. Leighton K este ve n. — The author concurs with Mr. Harris' 

 opinion that the varix sometimes thrown up at the conclusion of the embryo- 

 nic stage is, in such instances, the only manifestation of the nepionic stage ; 

 he further suggests that where no varix has been thrown up, the mollusc has 

 left no chonchologieal record of the nepionic stage. An account of his method 

 of identifying them is followed by descriptions of, and critical notes on, the 

 protochons of Murex ausiralis, Quoy & Gaimard *, M. Angasi^ Crosse; Trito- 

 niuni fusiforme^ Kiener', T. olearmm^ Linné; T. xS^ewy^m, Chemnitz; T. spe- 

 cosunij Angas; Gyrineum australasicum ^ Perry; Sistrum neglectum, Angas; 

 Cupulus violaceus, Angas; Liotia clathrata^ Keeve; and Turbo siamineus, Mar- 

 tyn. — 8) Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part V. By C. Hedley, F.L.S. — 

 Several land shells hitherto unfigured, collected by the Chevert Expedition, 

 are herein illustrated. The synonymy of various marine moUusca is discussed. 

 Descriptions of new species of Philme^ Puncturella, and Columbella are given. — 

 Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited a beautiful Sand-Eel from Cowan Bay, Hawkes- 

 bury River; several specimens of two species of Locustidae , and two Geckos 

 from Tanna, New Hebrides; specimens of Ceratothoa^ a crustacean parasitic 

 chiefly in the mouths of the Yellowtail [Trachurus)\ and the larvae of a com- 

 mon moth, Agarista glycine^ Lewin, which at present are doing great damage 

 to the young grapes in the vicinity of Sydney. — Mr. Steel exhibited a very 

 fine collection of beautifully preserved specimens of different species of 

 Peripatns from the various Australasian Colonies, South Afrika and Chili. — 

 Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of a ladybird beetle. Cryptolaemus Älont- 

 rouzierij Muls. , the larvae of which have been very numerous for the last 

 month on the Norfolk Island and Bunya Pines all round Sydney, feeding 

 upon a scale, Dactylopius aurihmatus^ Mask. , which if it were not thus kept 

 in check would cause considerable damage to the trees. As the larvae after fee- 

 ding upon the scale cover themselves with the remains of the scale insects, they 

 give the bark of the trees the appearance of being covered with lime-spots. 

 This leads to their being destroyed under the impression that they are scale 

 insects. — Mr. Froggatt also showed cultures of a fungus, Sporotrichium 

 gluboliferum^ Spey, which has been largely used in America to destroy the 

 Chinch Bug [Blissus leucopterus). As this pest is closely allied to the Austra- 

 lian Rutherglen Bug [Nysius vinitor\ it is proposed to experiment upon the 

 latter with the fungus. — Mr. North reported that among migratory species 

 of birds now breeding at Roseville, were Eurystomus pacißcus^ Myiagra rube- 

 cula, Gerggone albigtdaris, Myzomela sanginnolenta^ Lalage tricolor^ and Edo- 

 liisoma temnrostre] the last of these had been noted for the past two seasons 

 at Roseville, and at Waterfall in 1897 — 1898. During the month Mr. George 

 Savidge had taken the egg of Cacomantis variolosus from the nest of Eopsal- 

 tna capito, and on the 23rd inst. Mr. North had taken the same species of 

 Cuckoo 3 egg from the nest of Rhipidura rufifrons\ also the egg of the Bronze 

 Cuckoo. Lamprococcyx plagosus, from the nest of Gerygone fusca. At Ourim- 



