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Hedley, F.L.S.) Several minute Land Shells oceurring in New Zealand 
have been placed in the genus Leptopoma. Mr. Suter having obtained addi- 
tional species of this group, and being led to review their generic status, 
was debarred, by lack of literature and of foreign species for comparison, 
from justifying his suspicions that they were incorrectly classified as such. 
From Mr. Suter’s notes and specimens the author has established the con- 
jecture of his correspondent that pannosum, Hutton, calvum, Hutton, pallidum, 
Hutton, and forquillum, Suter, form a well-marked section of Lagochilus; 
another natural section being represented by L. cytora, Gray, The author 
concludes by tracing the distribution of Zagochilus from India and China 
through the Philippines and Malay Archipelago to New Guinea and doubt- 
fully to Queensland and the New Hebrides. — 2) Schizoglossa; a new Genus 
of Carnivorous Snails. By C. Hedley, F.L.S. The name of Daudebardia 
novoseelandica was bestowed, thirty years ago, by Pfeiffer, upon a shell coll- 
ected by Hochstetter in New Zealand. Though the original description has 
been frequently copied and translated, nothing more relating to the species 
has appeared; figures of the shell, and an account of the animal, hitherto 
lacking are now supplied. Schizoglossa, type (D) novoseelandica, by reason 
of the rudimentary shell, perched upon the tail, the anterior extension of the 
body and the aculeate teeth of the radula, maintains a superficial resem- 
blance to the European genera Testacella and Daudebardia. But structurally 
it may be distinguished therefrom by the different form of the shell, its more 
anterior position, the want of oblique furrows on the body, and especially 
by the anterior situation of the pulmonary orifice. The new genus may be 
regarded as a form of the Paryphanta stock differentiated by the retrogression 
of the shell. — 3) Description of a new Tree-frog from New South Wales. 
By G. A. Boulenger, F.Z.S. (Communicated by J. J. Fletcher.) The tree- 
frog herein described under the name Ayla chloris was obtained by Mr. R. 
Helms at Richmond River, and has been recorded by Mr. Fletcher as H. 
gracilenta, to which it is closely allied. — 4) Botanical. — 5) Oological 
Notes. By Alfred J. North, F.L.S. I) On the Nesting-place and Eggs of 
Halcyon sordidus, Gould. The hitherto unrecorded nesting-place of this 
species was discovered on the 6th of October, 1892, by Mr. J. A. Boyd in 
a Termite nest in a Blood-wood tree, overhanging a salt-water creek on 
Hinchinbrook Island. The eggs, three in number, two of which were slightly 
incubated, are pure white and nearly round in form, one specimen (a) being 
slightly compressed towards one end, the surface of the shell being very 
smooth and nearly lustreless and partaking less of that glossy pearly-white- 
ness characteristic of the known eggs of all the other members of the Austra- 
lian Alcedinidae. Length a) 1,23x1,03 inch; b) 1,2x 1,03 inch; c) 1,22 x 
1,05 inch. II) On the Nesting-place and Eggs of Cyanoramphus Rayneri, G. 
R. Gray. The eggs of this insular form of ©. novae-zealandiae were obtained 
by Dr. P. Herbert Metcalfe, the Resident Medical Officer on Norfolk Island, 
from the hollow spout of a tree on the 12th of October, 1892. One specimen 
(a) is oval in form and equal in size at both ends, the other is a broad oval, 
tapering somewhat at one end; they are pure white except where nest- 
stained, the surface of the shell being very smooth and lustreless. Length 
a) 1,12 x 0,9 inch; b) 1,08 x 0,87 inch. 
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