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29 th February, 1 888 . — 1 ) Description of Fish-Remains from the Roll- 

 ing Downs Formation of N. Queensland. By R. E the ridge, F.G.S. The 

 fish-remains described in this paper are a single well-preserved tooth refer- 

 able to Agassiz's Oiodus appendiciilahis, and a series of the still united verte- 

 brae of a shark, probably of the genus Lamna, which from a comparison 

 with the skeleton, 9 feet long, of a specimen of the recent Carcharodon Ron- 

 deletn m the Australian Museum, must have belonged to an individual at least 

 20 feet long. These fossils are of especial interest from their occurrence in 

 the upper portion of the Mesozoic series, whereas the fish-remains hitherto 

 described from Australia are, with two trivial exceptions, all from the lower 

 members of the series. The tooth of Oiodus was collected by Mr. R.L. Jack, 

 F.G.S. , at Kamileroy, Leichhardt River; the vertebrae are from Richmond 

 Downs, Flinders River, and have been kindly lent to the author by Mr. De 

 Vis, of the Queensland Museum. — 2) Description of a new Péiloius from 

 N.W. Australia. By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.R.S. The 

 new species (P. Macleayi) was obtained by Mr. Froggatt in the neighbour- 

 hood of Derby, King's Sound. — 3) On the Fisheries of the Oriental Region. 

 By Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods , F.G.S., F.L.S. The Oriental Region is 

 defined as the seas within the tropics on both sides of the equator from the 

 longitude of the Himalayas to the Yang-tse-kiang, including the islands west 

 of ,, Wallace's line", at least as far as about the meridian of the Caroline 

 Group, the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, and New Caledonia ; and 

 then follow accounts of the fishermen and their modes of fishing, of the fishes, 

 and of the various branches of the fish trade of this important region — 

 4) Bacteriological. — 5) Botanical. — 6) Notes on the Nesting of Alcyone 

 piilchra, Gould. The nest and eggs of this beautiful Kingfisher were obtained 

 m the Cairns District, Queensland, last December by Messrs. Cairn and 

 Grant of the Australian Museum. — 7) Catalogue of the known Coleoptera 

 of New Guinea. Part I. By George Masters, Curator, Macleay Museum. 

 This paper includes all the Peiitamerous and Heteromerous Coleoptera hitherto 

 described, numbering 970 species; the Tetramerous and Trimerous divisions 

 will form the subject of another paper. The term New Guinea includes the 

 islands on the west and north-west coasts falling within Wallace's line of 

 shaUow water, and the islands of the New Britain and New Ireland groups 

 on the north-east coast. — 8) Botanical. — Mr. S. C. Burnell exhibited a 

 specimen of Pygoptis lepidopodus 25 inches in full length, from Wentworth- 

 viUe nearParramatta. — Mr. Douglas-Ogilby exhibited a snake from the 

 South Solitary Island, which he had shown previously to Mr. Macleay, with 

 whom he agrees that it is a new genus. It is closely allied to PseudecMs, but 

 difi"ers from it in having a single nasal shield, a point which seems to be con- 

 sidered of great importance. — The President exhibited some fossils, pro- 

 bably sp. of Peiitamerus, Cyathophyllum, Litliostrotion, and Favosites, from the 

 lower beds of Limestone, Clieveden, Molongulli, county Bathurst. These 

 lower beds are highly argillaceous and shaly, and much altered by pressure, 

 heat and other metamorphic agencies. There is some reason to regard them 

 as the same (or contemporaneous) with the auriferous shales which occur at 

 the junction of the Belubula River and Mandurama Creek, which were for- 

 merly worked as the Junction Reefs. — Also, for Mr. Norton, an internal 



