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of the scissors until actually touehed. It is assumed that the concave lenses 

 in the facets are cœnagenetic and produced for the purpose of counteracting 

 the effect of the excessive curvature of the lens, which is adapted for seeing 

 in water and not in air. This species lives on land. — 8) Observations on 

 some Australian Polychaeta. By W. A. Has well, M.A., B.Sc, etc. This 

 consists of a series of notes Zoological and Anatomical, on various Austra- 

 lian species of marine Annelides of the genera Syllis, Gnathosyllis, Eulalia, 

 Siphonostoma, Halla, and Staurocephalus. — 9) Descriptions of two new 

 Fishes from Port Jackson. By E. P. Ramsay, F.R..S.E., etc., and J. Dou- 

 glas-Ogilby, Australian Museum. The two Fishes here described are named 

 Seriola simplex and Nannocampus ruber. — Mr. Whitelegge exhibited a 

 number of water insects [Notonecta) , with small moUusks attached to their 

 legs, and suggested this as a probable way of the distribution of mollusca 

 and fish ova over the country. He also exhibited some fresh water Polyzoa 

 killed with the tentacles fully extended by means of chloroform. Mr. Macleay 

 also exhibited for Mr. Wilkinson , specimens of a Fossil Crustacean from 

 Forrest River, Cambridge Gulf, which Mr. Haswell pronounced to be a 

 Thalassina, a genus which burrows in the mud of Mangrove Swamps. — Mr. 

 Ramsay, F.R.S.E., Curator of the Australian Museum, exhibited the follo- 

 wing fossil bones recently obtained from the tertiary deposits in the caves of 

 Wellington Valley. 1) No. B., 6148. — The premaxillaries and scalpriform 

 incisors of a new species of Phascolomys, P. curvirostris, Owen ; Mr. Ram- 

 say considered that a new genus should be created for the reception of the 

 animal represented by this fossil, on account of the peculiar depressed and 

 indented anterior position of the palate and peculiar curvature of the lower 

 borders of the premaxillaries. 2. B. 5936. — This fossil represents the pa- 

 late and molars of the skull of a new species of kangaroo, Palorchestes re- 

 phaim, Owen, the form of the foremost premolar (usually represented by the 

 formula 4 d) is different in shape, being broadly triangular with rounded 

 cusps and the other teeth are relatively larger and the molar series longer 

 than in other known species. 3. B. 5939. — This is the left Os innomi- 

 natum, and 4. B. 5938 is the right femur of probably the same animal P. 

 rephaim, Owen, while 5. B. 6442, is probably a collar bone or clavicle of 

 the same. — 



IV. Personal -Notizen. 



Christiania. Dr. R. Collett ist im October 1885 zum Professor 

 der Zoologie und Director des Zoologischen Museums an der Universität 

 Christiania ernannt worden. 



Necroiog. 



Am 3. October 1885 starb in Bergen, Norwegen, Dr. Johan Koren, 

 Conservator des Bergenschen Museums, ein um die Kenntnis der wirbel- 

 losen Thiere der Nordsee äußerst verdienter Forscher. 



Berichtigung. 

 In No. 213 des Zool. Anzeigers p. 27 Z. 11 und 12 v. o. ist zu lesen: »in una 

 soluzione di ammoniaca nell' acqua distillated all' IX, finché abbiano perduto« etc., 

 und Z. 1 7 «un tono profondo« statt »sono«. 



Drnck von Breitkopf ic Hartel in Leipzig. 



