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a Rallus pectoralis Mr. J. A. Thorpe of the Australian Museum extracted the 

 snail I now exhibit. This is a specimen of Chloritis jervisensis, Quoy and Gai- 

 mard, a species common in this neighbourhood, whose almost adult and un- 

 injured shell measures 18 mm in diameter, and which weighed, shell and 

 animal together, 1,26 grammes. When found by Mr. Thorpe, to whom I 

 am indebted for both facts and specimen, the snail was quite dead ; as a test 

 I immersed the animal in strong spirits without inducing contraction ; since, 

 however, its consumer had been killed forty hours earlier, the suffocation 

 of the mollusc was to be expected. The bird was shot at Randwick , near 

 Sydney, on the 19th May, 1894, by Mr. Newcombe , Deputy Registrar-Ge- 

 neral. In enumerating »Means of Dispersal« , Darwin observes (Origin of 

 Species, 6th ed, p. 372): »A bird in this interval [eighteen hours] might 

 easily be blown to the distance of 500 miles, and hawks are known to look 

 out for tired birds, and the contents of their torn crops might thus readily 

 get scattered.« In view of the above incident, this suggests a means whereby 

 the geographical range oi jervisensis might be considerably extended.« — 

 Mr. Lucas exhibited two small fishes from Central Australia (near the 

 McDonnell Ranges) , which had been forwarded to him by Mr. C. French, 

 F.L.S., of Melbourne. Both specimens were immature, but both belong to 

 well-known fresh-water genera. One is Therapon fasciatus, Cast., described 

 originally from the Swan River. There are specimens in the Macleay Mu- 

 seum from the Hodgkinson River. This young individual shows the strong 

 spines of the praeoperculum and the praeorbital which distinguish this spe- 

 cies from T. percoides, Günther. The other fish is a very young Chatoessus, 

 and seems to correspond better with C. èrebi, Günther, than with C. Richard- 

 soni, Castelnau. The latter is the form characteristic of the waters of the 

 Murray System. It would seem that both fishes are coast river and not 

 Murray species. It is to be hoped that the Horn Expedition will bring back 

 abundant material by means of which further light may be thrown on the 

 distribution of Australian fresh-water fish, and especially on the limits of 

 the Murray Province. — Mr. Rainbow showed living trap -door spiders 

 [Dinops sp.), with their nests, from Burlila, N.S.W. Dr. Cox exhibited a 

 very fine series of complete specimens — fructification and host — of seve- 

 ral species of fungi [Sphaeria, Isaria or Cordyceps) infesting caterpillars and 

 other insect larvae, obtained at the Kurrajoug Heights by Mr. Henry Sel- 

 kirk, and he communicated an interesting Note embodying the collector's 

 observations thereon. — Mr. Waite exhibited on behalf of Mr. Skuse , the 

 larva of a large moth (A'eZi<s sp.) infested with Isaria^ from Peak Hill, 

 N.S.W. — Mr. Fletcher exhibited specimens of two species of phyllopod 

 entomostraca [Lepidurns] from Tamworth (collected by Mr. C. T. Musson) 

 and Dandaloo on the Bogan (collected by Mr. Alleyne Fletcher) , and he 

 pointed out that as only three Australian species — two from S.A. and one 

 from Tasmania — had been described , the group would probably repay 

 attention. He also showed flowers of another introduced Apocynaceous 

 plant, Mandevilla suaveolens , Lindi., which had proved a death-trap to in- 

 sects, forwarded from Mudgee by Mr. J. D. Cox, who reports that hawk- 

 moths are occasionally entrapped. 



