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Victoria " in 1890. Since that time four additional species had 

 been recorded for Victorian waters. There had been several 

 changes in nomenclature, and the Victorian species were now 

 listed as Terebratulina cancellata, Koch ; T. cavata, Verco ; 

 T. radula, Hedley ; Magellania flavescens, Lamarck ; Magasella 

 vercoi, Blockmann ; M. cumingi, Davidson ; Kraussina atkin- 

 soni, Ten. -Woods ; K. [Mergerlina) lamarckiana, Davidson ; 

 Cryptopora brazieri, Crane, the full synonomy of each species 

 being given. Specimens of each species were exhibited in 

 illustration of the paper. 



Some additional notes on the position and habits of the group 

 were also read, and specimens distributed for closer examination. 



Dr. T. S. Hall said that the authors were to be congratulated 

 on their work. The Brachiopoda or lamp shells were very 

 difficult to determine, from the fact that the differentiation of 

 species was founded on loops contained within the shell, there 

 being no external characters sufficiently constant by which to 

 separate them. It was also difficult to separate young examples 

 from older individuals. 



Messrs. F. Chapman. J. Gabriel, and F. Pitcher also spoke. 



Mr. C. J. Gabriel said that though they had recorded only 

 nine species of the order, it was not to be concluded that they 

 had not done much work, or that they had discovered all the 

 species that may exist. These results were obtained only after 

 much laborious work and expense. 



Mr. Gatliff said when one finds the young, smooth form 

 attached to a bunch of more mature ones on the sea-shore one 

 cannot make a mistake in concluding that the smooth form is 

 but the older one in a younger stage of its existence. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Mr. C. French, jun., said that he had recently received a 

 specimen of the large carab beetle, Catadromus australis, from 

 Mr. A. Coles, of Bourke-street, to whom it had been forwarded 

 by Mr. F. E. Van Damme, of Outtrim, with the remark :— " Am 

 sending you a beetle, the name of which I would like to know. 

 The other day I heard a frog croaking most piteously, and 

 thinking a snake had it, I went to see, when I found this beetle 

 hanging on to it." 



Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S., read an interesting note regarding 

 the feeding of a young cuckoo by a pair of White-plumed 

 Honey-eaters. 



Dr. T. S. Hall, referring to a recent publication on " The 

 Edible Fishes of Queensland," by Mr. Douglas Ogilby, said that 

 the Blackfish, Gadopsis mannoratus, was recorded therein as 

 being found in Queensland. It was formerly thought that 



