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a fine gathering of Infusoria and Rotifers from the Waterloo Swamps, the 

 most notable species being Bursaria truncatella Müller, Stentor igneus Ehr., 

 Hydatina senta Ehr., Euchlanis triquetra Ehr., and Asplanchna Brightwellii 

 Gosse. The last named species was also shown in spirits, having been killed 

 by means of a mixture of spirits and chloroform with the corona fully exten- 

 ded. — Dr. Cox exhibited two fresh specimens of Cyprcea decipiens, described 

 by Mr. Edgar A. Smith in the Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. for 1880, and made the 

 following remarks. The type specimen and till now the only specimen on 

 record, is in the British Museum, and is »m a worn stateci. As Mr. Smith 

 points out it is like a diminutive C. thersites. My specimens are all even 

 smaller than the British Museum specimen, and the backs of all are charac- 

 teristically high and humped. They have a flatter base than C. thersites, as 

 pointed out by Mr. Smith, but the colour is darker than an orange-red, and 

 almost amounts to a black with a tinge of red, no doubt, owing to the spe- 

 cimens being quite fresh ; the sides are quite as dark for fully two-thirds of 

 their surface ; indeed one specimen is quite covered with this black-red por- 

 cellanous colouring. The apices of the backs of the shells as a rule are mar- 

 ked exactly as in C. thersites. None of my specimens show any disposition 

 to be white upon either side of the aperture as is the case in that species. 

 The teeth in them correspond in every way with Smith's description, but are 

 very much darker, almost black. The interior is not white, but rather white 

 with a bluish tinge ; the teeth on the body whorl are dark red-brown, but 

 just above the line of the teeth the surface is only stained lightly with brown. 

 The interstices between the teeth are of the same dark colour as these, the 

 number of which corresponds exactly with Smith's description. These speci- 

 mens, which quite set aside any doubt which may have existed as to the va- 

 lidity of Mr. Smith's species, are from N. W. Australia, and were obtained 

 from pearl-shell , divers. It has been ascertained that the large green turtle 

 feeds on these molluscs, and some of my specimens show distinctly where 

 they have been gripped by the sharp, powerful bills of these animals. — Mr. 

 Masters exhibited a large collection of the magnificent Moth — Nyctalemon 

 Orontes — from Cairns, Queensland. He also exhibited some eggs of what he 

 believed to be the Painted Snipe, Rhynchœa australis. — Dr. Hurst exhibi- 

 ted some eggs which he had taken from a nest in a Mangrove Swamp, at 

 Newington, with a view of ascertaining the name of the bird. Dr. Ramsay 

 said he believed the eggs to be those of Glyciphila ocularis. — Mr. Macleay 

 exhibited the following new or rare Reptiles and Fishes collected by Mr. W. 

 W. Froggatt, in the vicinity of Cairns, Queensland. Snakes : Tropidonotus 

 picturatus, Schlegel, Dipsas Boydii, Macleay, Hoplocephalus assimilis, Macleay, 

 Hoplocephalus nigrostriatus, Krefft, Nardoa crassa, Macleay, and Dendrophis 

 hilorealis, Macleay. Lizards: Varanus ocellatus, Gray, Varanus sp. ?, Hinulia, 

 n. sp., four species of Geckotidae unknown, one with tail of remarkable width, 

 and several other unknown lizards. Fishes: Dules Haswellii, Macleay, 

 Aristeris rufescens, Macleay, Serranus lanceolatus, Bleek. , a species new to 

 Australia, and a species of Eleotris probably undescribed, remarkable for its 

 minute scales. Collected from the same district were a number of frogs, 

 among which Mr. Fletcher pointed out examples of Hyla dolichopsis, H, cœ- 

 rulea, H. Lesueurii, H. Peronii, H. nasuta, H. gracilenta, Limnodynastes or- 

 natus, and two other species not determined. 



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