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at Miriam Vale, near the head of the Calliope River, Ilockhampton. By J. 

 C. Cox, M.D., F.L.S., &c. A detailed description is given of two very re- 

 markable female figures modelled in wax, the only examples of plastic art 

 ever observed among the Australian aboriginals. Both figures were without 

 arms and mouths. — 4) Botanical. — 5) The Insects of King's Sound and 

 its vicinity. Part III. The Sternoxes. By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. 

 The species of the families Buprestidae and Elateridae, collected by Mr. Frog- 

 gatt in the "West Kimberley District of West Australia, are here given. The 

 total number of species is about 60, of which 10 only had previously been 

 described. — 6) On Two Instances of Colour Variation in Butterflies. By 

 A. Sidney Oil iff. In this short note varieties of Pyramets Cardui and Papi- 

 lla erectJieus, from Bombala and Ash Island Hunter River, respectively, are 

 described, and the geographical forms of the former are discussed. Atten- 

 tion is directed to Ihe fact that specimens undistinguishable from the Austra- 

 lian form (P. Kershawi) have been captured in the south of England, and the 

 conclusion is arrived at that the dominant Australian form with blue-centred 

 spots in the hind wings has hardly yet become a geographical race in the sense 

 of Wallace. — Professor Tate called the attention of the Meeting to a new 

 Marsupial animal recently received at the Adelaide Museum from Alice 

 Springs, Central Australia, and of which a detailed account by Mr. Zietz of 

 the S. A. Museum, will shortly be given. The specimen had been sun-diied 

 and "«alted, and therefore was not in first-rate condition, but from such ob- 

 servation 3S was possible at the time the following characters were deter- 

 minable. In ap^^-^arance the animal somewhat resembles the Cape-mole 

 {CIirysochlora)\ its teeth and fore-limbs indicate that it is insectivorous and a 

 burrower, and though no marsupial bones were observed in a cursory exa- 

 mination, the marsupial characters of the creature were shown by the presence 

 of marginal folds bounding the lactiferous surface, which, and in other cha- 

 racters also, implies some affinity to the Monotremes. The animal is evidently 

 a rare one, as it was only the second specimen known, on the testimony of 

 the blacks, during sixteen years. — Mr. North exhibited the eggs of the 

 following species : — Menura superba, Davies ; M. Alberti, Gould ; and M. 

 Victoriae, Gould : also the eggs of six species of Bower-birds, viz. : — Plilo- 

 norhynchus violaceus, Vieillot; Chlamydodera maculata, Gould; C. cerviniven- 

 tris, Gould ; Sericulus mellmis, Latham ; Ailuroediis viridis, Latham, and A. 

 marulosus, Ramsay. — Dr. Cox exhibited specimens of 32 species of Land 

 and Freshwater Mollusca, collected by Mr. C. W. Musson, F.L.S., in the 

 neighbourhood of Narrabri, N.S.W., and of which the list will be given in 

 the Proceedings ; and he pointed out the interest attaching to several of them 

 from the stand-point of geographical distribution. — Also a number of well- 

 preserved Carboniferous fossils from the Goulburn River, a tributary of the 

 Hunter. — Mr. Whitelegge exhibited specimens of Medusae — Aurelia 

 caerulea '?) — from Mossman's Bay, killed in a saturated solution of alum, 

 showing the excellent results of that mode of preservation. — Mr. J. Dou- 

 glas-Ogilby exhibited three specimens of the larval form of the genus 

 Tr achy pier us, two of which were obtained from the Mediterranean, and are 

 labelled 7'. taenia by Dr. Dohrn; the third was taken in Port Jackson by Mr. 

 W. Paul, and is probably the young stage of Dr. Ramsay's T.jacksoniensis, 

 a species which is so closely allied to the northern T. arcticus that there is 

 great doubt as to their sjiecific distinction. The great development of some 



