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serratus, and Â. bicarinatus, which are similar to those represented in the 

 figure oi A. Franklinii in Huxley's paper "On the Classification of Cray- 

 fishes", (P.Z.S,, 187S), but to which no reference is made in the text. An 

 account of them is given, and the opinion is offered that they probably func- 

 tion as valves between the thoracic limbs and the branchiostegite, preventing 

 the too ready entrance of foreign matter. Reference is also made to the con- 

 dition of these structures in such other forms as were available for examina- 

 tion. — 7) Notes on the Nidification oî Sp/iecoÛieres maxillaris, Lath., and of 

 Campephaga leucomdana , Vig. and Hors,, with descriptions of their eggs. By 

 W. D. Fitzgerald, Junr. (Communicated by Dr. Ramsay, F.R.S.E.) 

 The birds referred to in this note were found breeding in the Richmond River 

 District during the past and the previous months. — 8) Notes on some 

 Scaritidae from the Dawson River, Queensland, with descriptions of two new 

 species. By "William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. A list is here given of a 

 number of species of this group of insects, collected by Mr. George Barnard 

 of Coomooboolaroo, Dawson River. Carenum obsoletum and Philoscaphus 

 Barnardi are added and described as new species, the latter an insect of re- 

 markable form and splendour. — 9) Geological. — 10) On a new Butterfly 

 of the Family Satyridae, By A. Sidney Oil iff, F.E.S. A supposed new 

 species of Xenica from the Liverpool Plains District is described. — Dr. 

 Cox exhibited 20 species of Lepidoptera from Victoria, collected by Mr. Ker- 

 shaw. Amongst them were fine specimens of Thalaina Clara, and what Mr. 

 Kershaw considered would turn out to be a new Charagia^ but which Mr. 

 Masters has pronounced to be a species found about Sydney, the larvae of 

 which feed on the Ti-Tree in swamps : also the Xenica described this evening 

 by Mr. OUifi", Xenica Kershaivi Miskin, and Ogyris Oroetes Hew. — Mr. 

 Masters exhibited the following mammals sent by Mr. Froggatt from Der- 

 by, King's Sound : — Two specimens of Hapalotis Boweri, Ramsay; Pera- 

 meles auratus, Ramsay; Peramelesl n. sp.; Dasyurus Geoffroyi, Belidetis ariel, 

 and a new species of Phalangista remarkable for its very short and slender 

 tail. — Mr. Olliff exhibited a specimen of Peripatiis Leuckartii , Sang., 

 which, in conjunction with Mr. Herbert Merewether, he had recently found 

 at Cassilis, N. S.W., and in reference to which he read a note (which will 

 appear later in the Proceedings) giving particulars of the colour and appea- 

 rance of the animal while alive. Mr. Ollifi" stated that this was the first time 

 this interesting creature had been recorded from New South Wales, though 

 previously known from Queensland, and Gippsland, Victoria. — Mr. Mac- 

 leay exhibited a fine specimen of the Oligorus, or fresh water cod, of the 

 Richmond River, recently sent to him by W. C. Bundock, Esq. He said he 

 had compared it carefully with specimens of Oligorus Macqariensis, Cuv., and 

 Oligorus Mitchelli, Castelnau , the two species known under the name of 

 Murray or Murrumbidgee cod, and found that its resemblance to the last of 

 these was so complete as to leave little doubt in his mind that they were the 

 same species. — Mr. Macleay also exhibited on behalf of the Rev. J. E. 

 Te ni s on-Wood s a series of specimens of coal fossils from Sarawak, Bor- 

 neo. He stated that Mr. Tenison- Woods was inclined to think, from some 

 other fossils he had seen, that coal of a much more ancient character existed 

 in Borneo, and perhaps nearly allied to the Newcastle beds of New South 

 Wales. 



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