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with both at Broken Bay and at Jervis Bay, in loose sand under large stones 

 between tide-marks. A detailed account of this interesting form, in all pro- 

 bability a new species, is promised. — 4) Note on the presence of vestigial 

 Mullerian Duets in a full-grown male Lizard [Amphibolurus muricatus). By J. 

 P. Hill, F.L.S. — Mr. N orth drew attention to the unusually large number 

 of cuckoos at present in the neighbourhood of Sydney, and exhibited a set of 

 eggs , consisting of two eggs of Acanlhiza pusilla and an e^^ each of three 

 different species of cuckoos, viz., Lamprococcyx plagosus, L. basalis, and Ca- 

 comantis ßahelliformis ^ taken on the 31st ult. from a nest of A. pusilla built 

 in a low shrub on the Woolli Creek, Another nest of A. pusilla, examined 

 on the 13th inst, and built in the near vicinity to where the previous one 

 was taken , contained a single egg of C. ßaeelliformis, but on visiting it the 

 following day the egg was missing and an egg of L. basalis found in its place. 

 Several nests of Maluri and Acanthizae found during August and the present 

 month contained in some instances, in addition to the eggs of the rightful 

 owners, an egg each oi L. plagosus and Z. basalis; in others, two eggs of 

 the one species of bronze cuckoo. It is worthy of note that in many nests 

 the eggs of the cuckoos were deposited before those of the would-be foster- 

 parents, and that the entrances to these dome-shaped nests were greatly en- 

 larged, more especially in the nests where the eggs of C. flabelliformis were 

 found. The interior of the nests of the Maluri and Acanthizae is only half the 

 size or bulk of the latter parasitical intruder. — Mr. A. Sidney Olliff ex- 

 hibited specimens of the sugar-cane weevil [Sphenophorus ob scums , Boisd.), 

 recently bred from cocoons received from Northern Queensland. The species 

 was stated to be exceedingly destructive to sugar-cane and bananas in the 

 Sandwich Islands , Fiji, and New Ireland, where it is found boring in the 

 stems of the plants much in the same way as the sugar-cane moth borer 

 {Nonagria exitiosa, OIL). The Sphenophorus has not been recorded from Austra- 

 lia previously, and it is significant that the specimens now exhibited were 

 found in cane in cultivation in Queensland, but only recently imported from 

 New Guinea. — He also showed specimens of a remarkable parasitic fly 

 (Fam. Tachinidae] bred from adult beetles of the two-spotted Monolepta [Mo- 

 nolepta rosea, Blk.), a destructive plant-eating species. — Mr. Hill exhibited 

 a specimen of Balanoglossus , and an anatomical preparation of the lizard 

 referred to in his paper, showing a condition of things analogous to that 

 recently described by Professor G. B. Howes in Lacerta viridis (Journ. Anat. 

 and Phys. XXI. p. 185), but of rarer occurrence, as only one out of a num- 

 ber of specimens examined presented the features described. 



October 25th, 1893. — 1) On Polycercus: a proliferating Cysticercoid 

 parasitic in certain Earthworms. By Professor Haswell, M.A., D.Sc, and 

 J. P. Hill, F.L.S. — 2) Some Points in the Anatomy of the Monotreme 

 Scapula. By Professor Wilson, M.B., Ch.M., and W. J. Stewart McKay, 

 B.Sc, M.B. — 3) Notes on the Family Brachyscelidae , with Descriptions of 

 new Species. Part III. By W. W. Froggatt. — • 4) On some new Genera of 

 Nematode Worms found in Port Jackson. By N. A. Cobb, Ph.D. — 

 5) Geological. — 6) Contributions to a Revision of the Tasmanian Land 

 Mollusca. By H. Suter. (Communicated by C. Hedley, F.L.S.) — 7) No- 

 tes on the Occurrence of a Species of Pkcotrema and other Species of Mol- 

 lusca in Port Jackson. By J. C. Cox, M.D., F.L.S. — 8) On the Distribu- 

 tion of little-known Mollusca from Polynesia and Australia, Avith their 



