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Carson sent for exhibition the greater portion of the right ramus of the 

 lower jaw of an immature example of one of the large extinct Marsupials 

 [Diprotodon australis Owen) which had been found in what well-sinkers term 

 »wash«, at a depth of 40 feet in sinking a well, situated about three miles 

 from Tanbar Springs in the Gunnedah district. The specimen was nine 

 inches in length, a portion of each end of the ramus being missing; and 

 showed the remnants of three cheek-teeth. — Mr. Fletcher showed five 

 typical examples of a frog, Hi/Ia civingii D. & B., collected recently on King 

 Island, Bass Straits, by Mr. Arthur M. Lea of Hobart. This may perhaps 

 be the frog recorded as »Hyla sp.« in the »Fauna of King Island«, compiled 

 from the collections obtained by Members of the Field Naturalists' Club of 

 Victoria in 1887 (Victorian Naturalist, IV. 139); otherwise the species is 

 unrecorded from this insular habitat. — 1) Descriptions of new or little 

 known Desmids found in New South Wales. By G. I. Play fair. (Commu- 

 nicated by the Secretary.) — Dr. Otto Nordstedt has recorded nine species 

 from the Blue Mountains, and Dr. M. Kaciborski seventy-seven species 

 from Centennial Park, Sydney, the papers of these two writers representing 

 the only published contributions to a knowledge of New South Wales Desmids 

 available at present. The material studied by the author represents about 

 350 species, of which 230 have been identified as forms not restricted to 

 New South Wales, 50 require further investigation, and 70 are treated of 

 and figured in the present paper, of which 50 are regarded as previously un- 

 described. The localities in which the forms studied were obtained are the 

 suburbs of Sydney, Collector at the northern end of Lake George, and the 

 neighbourhood of Parkes. — 2) Revision of Thynnidae [Hymenoptera]. Part I. 

 By Rowland E. Turner, F.E.S. — The author, now resident in London, 

 took to England with him a large collection of Thynnidae, comprising the 

 result of his own collecting and specimens lent by Australian entomologists; 

 and this collecting is now being studied in conjunction with those in the 

 British Museum, and in the Hope Museum at Oxford, which contain most of 

 the types. It is estimated that the described species, together with the un- 

 described forms represented by the material available, amount to about 400. 

 The present paper, Part I., treats of the Subfamilies Diamminae and Thyn- 

 ninae, the former comprising only one genus, Diamma, represented by a 

 single species; and the latter, seven genera and two subgenera, represented, 

 by 102 species, of which 46 are described as new. — 3) Contributions to a 

 Knowledge of Australian Foraminifera. Part II. By E. J. Goddard, B.A., 

 B.Sc, Junior Demonstrator of Biology, Sydney University; and H. I. Jensen, 

 B.Sc, Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Geology. 



The recent Australian foraminiferal sands examined were obtained from 

 dredgings carried out by Mr. C. Hedley, F.L.S., of the Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, in various localities, namely, a) Van Diemen's Inlet, Gulf of 

 Carpentaria, depth two fathoms (62 species); b) ofi" Palm Island, near Towns- 

 ville, depth fifteen fathoms 1 56 species, two described as new); c) twenty-seven 

 and a hilf miles east of Sydney Heads, depth 300 fathoms (83 species, in- 

 cluding one genus and two species described as new). Other collections 

 studied included one from beach-sand at Lyell Bay, New Zealand, gathered 

 by Mr. A. Hamilton (5 species); a collection from beach-sand at Kelso, on 

 the North Coast of Tasmania, received from Miss Lodder (13 species); and 

 one of Tasmanian fossil forms from the Table Cape beds, also received from 



