NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. IX 



Vincent Street; Miss C. Forbes, Kelvinside Academy; Miss R. 

 Walker, 4 Ann Street, Hillhead ; Mr. T. L. "Wilson, 118 Victoria 

 Street, Hillhead; Mr. John R. M'Farlane, 62 Buchanan Street, 

 Mr. James Gold, 128 Hope Street ; Mr. James Carlton, 27 High 

 Street, Rothesay. 



Mr. David Pearson exhibited a living specimen of the Aus- 

 tralian Piping-Crow (GymnorJiiniis tibicen), lent by Mr. Peter 

 Muir, St. Enoch Square, for exhibition to the Society. The 

 species belongs to an Australasian group of birds, readily 

 distinguished from the true Corvidfe by the pectiliar form of 

 the nostrils, which are long, narrow, sunk in the substance of 

 the bill, and usually quite exposed. The black and-white 

 plumage is rather handsome, and bears some resemblance to 

 that of the Magpie. The piping song of the bird is not 

 unmusical, and compares favourably with the notes of most 

 others of its tribe. In captivity it displays excellent powers 

 of mimicry. 



Mr. Henry M'Culloch exhibited a specimen of Goliathus caci- 

 CHS, a large and beautifully-coloured beetle, from Old Calabar, 

 Western Africa. 



Mr. James Steel showed a glass jar with sea-water, containing 

 hundreds of the larval form of the common shore-crab, Car- 

 cimis tncenas, L. He remarked that in their early stage of 

 development many of these crustaceans are pelagic rather than 

 littoral as regards their haunts. 



Mr. James J. F. X. King exhibited a series of specimens of 

 (Ecetis notata, Ramb., ti neuropteron recently captured by him 

 on the River Lilfey, near Dublin. So far as he had been able 

 to learn, the insect had been taken in Britain in the following 

 localities only : two or three specimens at "U^'eybridge, by Mr. 

 M'Lachlan ; one at Barnes Common, by Mr. Morton ; and a few 

 on the River Wharfe, near Tadcester, by Mr. Binnie. It had 

 not been recoi'ded from Ireland until discovered by Mr. King 

 in the locality mentioned, where it occurred in profusion. It 

 accordingly forms an interesting addition to the Fauna of 

 Ireland, where the Leptoceridfe are already well represented. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd exhibited specimens of Smynthuriis fuscus, 

 L., S. luteiis, Lubb., Papirhis oriiatus, Nic, and P. nigromacu- 

 latns, Lubb , all obtained in the neighbourhood of West Kil- 

 bride, Ayrshire ; and he made some remarks on the group of 

 CoUembola to which these insects belong. 



Mr Boyd also showed fertile specimens of Bartramia Halleriana, 

 Hedw. , and Fontinalis squamosa, L., from the neighbourhood 

 of Largs. 



Mr. Thomas King, Vice-President, exhibited a collection of 

 Fungi from the district around Glasgow, including specimens 

 of the following species : 



