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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 : — Scorpcena, Hoplichthys, Ccelo- 

 rhynchus, Macrurus, Optonurus and Trachichthys. The crab, 

 Latreillopsis petterdi, lately described by Mr. F. E. Grant in these 

 Proceedings, from a specimen 9 millimetres in length, is now 

 shown to exceed 80 mm. These were associated with the rare 

 urchins, Phormosoma and Porocidaris 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. Maiden sent for exhibition a living plant of Myrmecodia 

 Beccarii Hook.f., from Cardwell, Queensland, collected by Mr. P. 

 MacMahon. It belongs to a genus of Epiphytic Rubiacese 

 " which have been long known from their singular habit of 

 forming often spinous tubers of great size, the interior of which 

 is galleried by ants of various species, and of which insects these 

 are the native homes " (Hooker f.). It is figured in Bot. Mag. t. 

 6883. 



Mr. Maiden also exhibited for the President, Mr. T. Steel, an 

 interesting Boronia from French's Forest, near Sydney, collected 

 by Mr. E. A. Holden. The habit of the plant is that of 

 B. serrulata Sm., but the colour of the flower is paler; while as 

 regards the ovarium, style, stigma and stamens, it is more closely 

 allied to B. Jloribunda Sieb. The leaves are sometimes trifoliate, 

 the leaflets are narrower and less serrulate, all characters which 

 seem to tend to show that it is a hybrid between the two species 

 named. It would seem, mainly because of habit, that B. serrulata 

 was the mother. The common Boronias in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the plant were B. serrulata and B. Jloribunda. 

 The specimens are in the National Herbarium, Sydney. 



Mr. Fletcher said that Mr. Stead had heen good enough to 

 examine specimens of the Tasmanian fishes found in damp earth by 

 Miss Lodder, and to report that, with some reservation, they 



