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2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 
Abstract of Proceedings. October 25th, 1911. — Mr. David G. Stead 
exhibited a living male and a female example of the Oyster Blenny, Petros- 
cirtes anolius (Cuv. et Val.) originally from Broken Bay, which he had kept 
alive (among others) for the past twelve months in a small saltwater aqua- 
rium. This interesting fish is found in and about oyster-shells along the 
coast of New South Wales, among which they spend their lives. Their eggs 
are deposited in the shells, and are closely watched over by the parents, the 
male being very bellicose. The mature male (alive) has the curious Cassowary- 
like helmet on the head. This has been described as a specific character, but 
it is purely sexual. Immature males, like the females, do not possess this 
character. Mr. Stead also drew attention to the mode of progression, 
showing that they moved in a normal manner forward. Mr. J. D. Ogilby 
had mentioned (Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, XXIII, p. 54, 1911) that these 
fishes ‘‘never willingly moved forward in the usual manner of the class, but 
invariably retrograde.’ Mr. Stead had found that though they very fre- 
quently retrograded, they quite commonly move forward, as did those exhibi- 
ted. Several oyster-shells, showing a deposit of spawn of this species, were 
also shown. — Mr. A. McCulloch exhibited, by permission of the Curator 
of the Australian Museum, six Queensland fishes which appear to be new 
records for Australia — Callyodon pyrrhostethus Richardson, from Dunk Is- 
land, near Cairns: Scarichthys auritus Kuhl & Van Hasselt, Stethojulis kalo- 
soma Bleeker, Balistes chrysopterus Bloch & Schneider, and Tetraodon nigro- 
punctatus Bloch & Schneider, from Murray Island, Torres Strait; Zonogobius 
semidoliatus Cuv. & Val., from Dunk Island, and Masthead Island off Port 
Curtis. 
III. Personal-Notizen. 
Neustadt a. d. Haardt. 
Dr. Fritz Schwangart, Privatdozent an der Technischen Hoch- 
schule in Karlsruhe und Leiter der Zoologischen Abteilung der 
Kgl. Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wein- und Obstbau in Neustadt 
a. d. Haardt, ist für die Dauer seiner Wirksamkeit an der letzteren 
Anstalt zum Kgl. Professor ernannt worden. 
Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 
