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remarkable Isopod each with a brood of young. It proved to be a form 
differing in various points from any of the known families, but most nearly 
related to the Anthuridae. The young were free in the cavity of the tube, 
sheltered, however, by fasciculi of hairs fringing the pereion of the parent. 
Like the »normal« Isopoda, and unlike the Anthuridae, the embryos are 
flexed in the egg towards the dorsal side; there is a pair of jointed larval 
appendages connected with the second larval cuticle. — Note on Pristiopho- 
rus cirratus. By William A. Haswell, M.A., B.Sc. This remarkable 
genus of Sharks was shown to be viviparous, and to possess a rudimentary 
shell thrown off in the uterus as in Mustelus, Carcharias, Galeus and Sphyrna. 
— Mr. Haswell exhibited specimens of intra-uterine foetuses of a wallaby 
received through the Town and Country Journal, from a correspondent in 
the interior. The foetuses were well-advanced, nearly as large as mammary 
foetuses, and the chorion extended over the whole surface, but there was 
still no trace of concrescence with the wall of the uterus. — The Hon. J. 
Norton, M.L.C., exhibited a portion of Hawkesbury Sandstone, from 
Springwood, Blue Mountains, which had been perforated in all directions 
and to a considerable depth by some Hymenopterous Insect. Such perfora- 
tions are common enough, but it is believed that the particular bee which 
forms them has not yet been determined. — Mrs. Masters exhibited an 
egg of the Paradisea raggiana from New Guinea. Very few of them have 
ever been seen. — Mr. J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc., exhibited several 
specimens of a Giant Earthworm from Burrawang, N.S. Wales, which is 
closely allied to the Megascolides australis from Gippsland, Victoria, descri- 
bed by Professor McCoy, in 1878. Mr. Fletcher stated his intention of 
giving a further account of this worm at a future meeting. — Mr. Ratte 
exhibited fossils of the genera Rostellaria, Fusus, Pleurotomaria ?, Belemnites, 
Venus, Nautilus, from the interior of New Caledonia, together with a frag- 
ment of bone. He observed that these fossils were characteristic of the 
upper cretaceous formation, and were likely to identify these New Caledo- 
nian beds with some already known in New Zealand. He also exhibited an 
Inoceramus from the Neocomian of Noumea. Mr. Ratte further read a note 
upon the calcareous shells formed by an insect, as exhibited at the last Mee- 
ting of the Society, by the President, and on a fungoid growth appearing on 
females of Monophlebus. — Dr. Cox exhibited a sample of a very rare shell, 
Latiaxis Mawae of Gray. Latiaxis is a sub-genus of Rapana of Klein, 
characterized by the whorls being more or less detached, and carinated, the 
aperture small, trigonal, the canal narrow, rather long and curved. The 
Operculum has been hitherto unknown, but the specimen exhibited showed 
the Operculum perfect. It is a very distorted shell of a rare occurrence found 
on Coral Reefs and supposed to live on the coral polyps. It is closely con- 
nected with the common American Tertiary fossil Fusus quadricostatus. — 
Mr. Macleay exhibited specimens of Dipsas Boydi and Diemenia atra, the 
two snakes described in his paper. Also a specimen of a new species of 
Furina, received by Mr. Ramsay from the Barrier Ranges, which he said 
he would describe on a future occasion. 
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