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Dr. Lucas supplements Mr. Meyrick's Monograph on the Australian Geo- 

 metridae, published in last year's Proceedings of this Society, by the addition 

 of nine new species to the genus lodis, and by giving additional localities to 

 species previously described. — 2) A Glimpse of the Post-Tertiary Avi-fauna 

 of Queensland. By C. W. De Vis, M.A. This paper is descriptive of such 

 bird-remains as can with confidence be referred to known genera, from the 

 Chinchilla deposits, Darling Downs, Queensland. The fossiliferous beds, 

 which have been exposed by floods in the banks of the Condamine River, 

 have yielded also the remains of molluscs, fresh-water fishes, alligators, 

 turtles, and terrestrial vertebrates ; whence it may be inferred that the loca- 

 lity is the site of a once densely populated water-course or basin. In keep- 

 ing with this it might have been anticipated that the birds whose remains 

 have so far come to light would belong for the most part to tribes which 

 haunt the margins or explore the waters of lakes and rivers. And this turns 

 out to be the case, for, with one or two more or less doubtful exceptions, 

 the nine species described are referable to birds of no higher grade than the 

 old order Grallatores, the majority of them belonging chiefly to the Anseres 

 and Rallidae. — 3) Botanical. — 4) On the Mammals and Birds of Mt. Bel- 

 lenden-Ker. By Dr. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c. Among the Mammals referred 

 to in this Paper are a new species of Fhalangista and of Dasyurns, named 

 respectively P. Johnstonii and D. gracilis. The Hypsiprymnodon inoschatus, 

 Ramsay, is also mentioned. — 5) Botanical, — 6) Description of some new 

 Fishes. By Dr. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c., and J. Douglas Ogilby, F.L.S. 

 The new species described are Parascyllinm collare taken in the trawl in deep 

 water off Port Jackson ; and Histinpterxs clevatus, also obtained in the trawl 

 in 70 fathoms water oft' Port Jackson. — 7) Descriptions of a new genus 

 and species of deep-sea Fish from Lord Howe's Island. By J. Douglas- 

 Ogilby, F.L.S. The fish described is placed in the family Sternoptychidae, 

 and the name Sternopty chides amahilis is given to it. The description is taken 

 from three very imperfect specimens in the Museum of the Hon. William 

 Macleay. — Mr. Rohu exhibited a fish [Serramis cylitidt-icns , Günth.) from 

 the Xew Hebrides, originally described from Madagascar, and subsequently 

 recorded from Zanzibar ; and he stated that he was indebted for its deter- 

 mination to Mr. J. D. Ogilby, who believed this to be the first time it had 

 been recorded from the Pacific. Also a carved shield, probably from Fiji, 

 very similar to that figured in a recent issue of the ,, Sydney-Mail" as one 

 of those in use by the Botany Bay natives at the time of Captain Cooks visit. 

 — The President also exhibited a number of fossils which he had collected 

 some years ago from the Devonian (?) mudstones of Cudgegong, near Ryl- 

 stone, and which appeared to belong to the family RecrptucuUtidac, a Palaeo- 

 zoic group of Hexactinellid Sponges (Dr. G. J. Hinde, Q.J.G.S., 18S4, 

 p. 795). He now exhibited them for comparison with the nodular structures 

 from Bredbo, which were laid before the July meeting by Mr. Deane, and 

 supplemented by an additional exhibit this evening. Also other specimens 

 of the same family from the hard limestones of the county of Argyle, They 

 appear to approach Ischadites rather than Recep Iaculi f es, but require a more 

 particular examination. Also a Crustacean fossil from the limestone at Bun- 

 gasalaby Creek, Lake Bathurst, obtained by the late Professor Thomson of 

 the Sydney University, and probably referable to the F.urypteridae. 



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