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Cijpliocrania species from Albiiry, also a Cicada, apparently 

 unrecorded, from. Mai7ssnlle;by Mr. Gr. Coghill, leaves of a eiicalypt, 

 perfectly skeletonised by attacks of caterpillars; by Master H. B. 

 Coles, seventeen species of honey-eaters; by Rev. A. W Cresswell, 

 M.A., siliceous tufa from Rotorua, N'ew Zealand, also a sponge, 

 Saherites Wilsoni, dredged off Queenscliffi by Mr. J. Bracebridge 

 Wilson, M.A. ; by Mr. P. Dattari, 250 species of Cetonidoe, and 

 other exotic coleoptera, including the rareelater, Pectoceva Fortanei, 

 from South America; by Mr. T. A. Forbes-Leith, a pair of parrots, 

 JElectus poli/chloi'us, from New. Guinea, also the smallest species pi 

 parrot known, Nasciterna pusilla, ^yn. Psittacida pigmcea, from New 

 Guinea; by Mr, C. French, F.L.S., Jardine's harrier, and Whistling 

 Owl from Omeo; by Master C. French, fossils from Waurn ponds; 

 by Mr. T. Hyland, seeds of a species of wild-apple, and of a species 

 of water-gum, which grows on the sea-beach, also a flying squirrel, 

 all from BuUadelah, New South Wales; by Mr. D. Mci^lpine, 

 F.O.S., egg within egg from Chines, also Globigerina, obtained in. 

 Atlantic Ocean at 1990 fathoms by the "Challenger" Expedition; 

 Baron von Mueller sent for exhibition dried specimens of three 

 Vacciniaceous plants from New Guinea. All three are epiphytes ; 

 ene, (he Dimorphanthera Moorhoicsiana, was published in February 

 last (Wings' S. Science Record) from collections of the Rev. -James 

 Chalmers ; the two others are from Mr. H. 0. Forbes's collections ; 

 one represents a new species of Agaj^etes, allied to A mshphagtdu7n, 

 described some years ago by Dr. Beccari from Mt. Arfak ; the tliird 

 of these new plants forms a remarkable new genus, to which Baron 

 von Mueller has given the name Catanthera, on account of the 

 anthers remaining permanently turned upside down. In reference to 

 its distinct four petals it is allied to Oxycoccus, the genus which 

 comprises the Cranberry plant of Britain ; the main characteristic of 

 Catanthera consists in the anthers being unmovingly refracted 

 inwards ; for although in Cletlira and Pyrola an inversion of the 

 anthers also occurs, it is at first outward, the introflection taking 

 place inward during anthesis, and becomes not an infraction of the 

 stamen so complete as in the new genus now indicated ; moreover 

 Catanthera belongs to Vaccinece, although the choripetalous corolla 

 is universal in Clethrece and Pi/rolea;, whereas it is only of exceptional 

 occurrence in Vacciniece. All these three new plants are of charming 

 beauty, their flowers being copiously produced along the branches 

 and of a bright red ; but as the growth of these Vaccinieoe is epiphy- 

 tal, their culture will probably be found to be surrounded with 

 difficulties. The Baron also exhibited a new Sterculia, named after 

 Mr. Edelfeldt, from South-eastern New Guinea, and to be described' 

 with some other new species of that genus in the next number of the 

 ViUortan Naturalist, and a new species of Eucalyptus,' jB. Naudiniand 

 Was: &lsp!sho!(Tn, this being so far as is known, the only Euoalyptns 



