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Abstract of Proceedings, October 31st, 1906. — Mr. D. G. Stead ex- 

 hibited an example of Cheilodactylus spectabilis Hutton, and stated that two 

 specimens were now in the collection of the Department of Fisheries, from 

 coastal waters of New South Wales, thus forming an addition to the known 

 fish-fauna. He also exhibited an immature example of a species of Trachi- 

 notiis (^'Dart") captured at Terrigal by Miss Gibbins; and some intra-uterine 

 embryos of the little "Gummy" Shark, Mustelus antarotieus Günther, taken 

 from a specimen captured in Port Jackson. Mr. Stead also recorded the 

 occurrence in the waters of Port Hacking, at the beginning of October, of 

 large numbers of the cilio-flagellate infusorian, Geratiimi furca Ehrenberg. — 

 Mr. Froggatt exhibited a large series of the remarkable galls of a Coccid 

 from Tennant's Creek, Central Australia, collected by Mr. I. F. Field. The 

 gall had been described, from Queensland, under the name of Brachyscelis 

 pomiformis in the Society's Proceedings for 1892. An examination of the 

 series exhibited showed that the enclosed insects could not be placed in the 

 genus, AjxiomorjjJia (= Byachyscelis) or any other known genus, as the struc- 

 ture of the female coccid was very different from that of every other known 

 form. ■ — On behalf of Professor Haswell, a collection of deep sea animals 

 was exhibited by Mr. Hedley. They were obtained by a cast of the trawl 

 on October 27th in 800 fathoms, 35 miles east of Sydney Heads. Among 

 fishes, the following genera had been determined by Mr. McCulloch: — 

 Scorj)aena, HopUcJithys^ Coelorhynchus, Macrurus^ O'ptomvrus^ and Traehich- 

 thys. The crab, LatreillojJsis pettcrdi^ lately described by Mr. F. Grant in these 

 Proceedings, from a specimen 9 millimetres in length, is now shown to ex- 

 ceed 80 mm. These were associated with the rare urchins, Pliormosoma and 

 Porocidmis elegans, the latter in great abundance. Except during the operations 

 of the 'Challenger', no deeper cast had been made in Australian waters than 

 that which yielded this abundant harvest. — Mr. Fletcher said that Mr. 

 Stead had been good enough to examine specimens of the Tasmanian fishes 

 found in damp earth by Miss L odd er, and to report that, with some reser- 

 vation, they might perhaps be referred to GaJaxias truttaceus Cuv. & Val. ; 

 also that the following considerations, on the whole seemed to favour the view, 

 that the fishes were merely aestivating — the specimens were enveloped in a 

 thick film of mucus; there was nothing remarkable about the structure of 

 the branchiae, nor did there appear to be any special apparatus for enabling 

 the fishes to breathe for lengthened periods out of water; the eyes were fully 

 developed, and likewise the ventral fins fthoug small). 



Berichtigung. 

 In dem Artikel von Prof. J. W. Spengel : »Eine verkannte Sipun- 

 cidus-IjaYwe«, in No. 4, Bd. XXXI des Zool. Anz., S. 98, 14. Zeile von 

 unten soll statt: »Tentakel« stehen: »Retractoren«. 



Drack von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



