KOTES AKD EXHIBITS, 
1507 
NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
^Mr. Bi-azier exMbited specimens of a land-shell, Suhvlina 
octona, Chem., collected by !Mr. E. L. Layard at Canala, east 
coast of Xew Caledonia, in a coffee plantation. The species is 
peculiar to Cuba and other West Indian Islands, but evidently 
it has been introduced into Isew Caledonia at some recent date, 
though under what circumstances is at present a mystery. 
Mr. Rohu exhibited a fine round carved wood mere or club 
from Xew Zealand, inlaid with eyes made from the shell of 
Ualiotis iris. 
Mr. Skuse exhibited the Diptera described in his paper, together 
with drawings of their wings. 
Mr. Sidney OUiff exhibited a series of earthen cocoons of Cepho 
lodesmivs armiger, Westw., a beetle of the family Scaraba?idse, 
some containing larvae or pupae, and others specimens of immature 
perfec-t insects. The cocoons had been dug up iu a garden at 
Parramatta at a depth of about eight inches. 
Mr. Macleay exhibited four specimens of a species of Carp from 
the Wingecarribee River, and read the following explanatory note : 
— “The fishes now exhibited were found in a waterhole close to the 
Wingecarribee River at Elvo, Burradoo, during the last week, by 
^Ir. W. R. Campbell. The waterhole was so nearly dry that the 
little water remaining in it was as thick as mud, and the fishes must 
have died very shortly if left in it. ^Ir. Campbell, therefore, had 
the holes emptied, and the fishes (several hundred) placed in the 
river in the immediate vicinity, with the exception of the four 
sj>ecimens sent to me and now exhibited. I find them to be 
American Cyprinid® of the genus Carpiodes, Rafinesque (Sclerog- 
-aathus of Valenciennes), a genus consisting of several sj»ecies, all 
belonging to the fresh waters of the United States. I have not 
been aide to make out the exact sj^ecies. J t wmuld l>e interesting 
to know how and when the fish was introduced into this country, 
where its acclimatization, as far as Wingecarribee is concerned, 
seems to have been so perfectly successful.” 
