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Semele exigua, A. Ad. — Common at settlement. 



Solenotellina hiradiata^ Wood. — Barren Island. 



Tellina decitssata, Lamk. — Near settlement ; common and large. 



Macoma marice, Ten.-Wds. — At settlement ; very plentiful and 

 fine. 



Chione scalarina, Lamk. — Barren Island. 



Chione peronii, Lamk. — Lady Barron ; a new record. 



Chione tristis, Lamk. — Barren Island. 



Tapes galactites, Lamk. — Common as single valves at Forsyth 

 Island. 



Veneriipis exotica, Lamk — Kangaroo Island. 



Cardium cygnorum, Desh. — Barren Island. 



Lucina tatei, Angas. — Common at settlement. 



Lucina jacksonensis. Smith. — Common with last. 



Lascea scalar is, Phil. — Barren Island. 



Mylitta tasmanica, Ten.-Wds. — Kangaroo Island. 



Rochfoitea donaciformis, Angas. — Forsyth Island. 



Cardita rosiUenta, Tate. — Barren Island. 



Area pistachia, Lamk. — Barren Island. 



Glycimeris flammea. Reeve. — Forsyth Island ; a new record. 



Glycimeris strictidaris, Lamk. — Forsyth Island. 



Glycimeris fLahellaUis, Ten.-Wds. — Barren Island. 



Mytilus erosus, Lamk. — Very common on rocks and in mud- 

 flats. 



Modiola confusa, Angas. — Barren Island. 



Modiola inconstans. Dunk. — Barren Island. 



Modiolarca tasmanica, Beddome. — Forsyth Island. 



Pteria papilionacea, Lamk. — Barren Island ; uncommon. 



Vulsella vulsella, Linne. — Barren Island. 



Bird Nomenclature. — Those who wish to know how our 

 birds appear under trinomial names should look up the Geelong 

 Naturalist for June (second series, vol. v.. No. 3), where, in Mr. C. 

 F. Belcher's " Notes on the Birds of the Torquay and Anglesea 

 Districts," they will find many old friends so transformed as to 

 be hardly recognizable in their extended christenings. The 

 vernacular names also in many cases are triple-worded. 



The Microscopical Society of Victoria. — The May leaflet 

 of this society indicates steady progress. A report of an 

 excursion by Mr. J. Stickland shows that the members need not 

 travel far to secure novelties, as on 26th April a visit was paid 

 to the various ponds or lakes of the Exhibition (Carlton) 

 Gardens, when a fine collection of Protozoans, Crustaceans, and 

 Rotifers was secured. Among the specimens collected was a 

 Copepod which does not appear to have been described yet, and 

 other forms which it was thought would prove to be new, 



