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MEETINGS OF. SOCIETIES. 
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LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Sydney, 27th August, 1884.—C. 8. Wilkinson, Esq., F.G.S., 
F.L.S., President, in the chair. 
The President announced that at the last Meeting of the Coun- 
cil F. Jeffrey Bell, Esq., M.A., Professor of Comparative Anatomy 
at King’s College, London, had been elected a Corresponding 
Member of the Society ; and that the following gentlemen had been 
elected to decide upon tke merits of the Essays on the Life History 
of the Bacillus of Typhoid Fever, for which a prize had been 
offered by the Society :—Dr. H. N. MacLaurin, Dr. C. K. Mac- 
henar, VW/..N. Haswell, Esq., M.A., B.Sc., J. J. Fletcher, Esq., M.A.., 
B.Sc., and the Honorary Secretaries, Professor W. J, Stephens, 
M.A., F.G.S., and the Hon. William Macleay, F.LS. 
Papers.—(1) ‘‘ New Fishes in the Queensland Museum. No. 
IV.,” by Charles W. De Vis, M.A. The families Gobiide and 
Blenniidz, form the subject of this paper; 31 new species are de- 
scribed. 
(2) ‘*‘ Notes on the Eyes of Deep Sea Fishes,” by Dr. von Len- 
denfeld. In this paper the author combats the views expressed 
by Mr. Arthur, of New Zealand, in opposition to his (Dr. Lenden- 
feld’s) theory as regards the eyes of Lepidotus caudatus. 
(3) ‘‘ The Insects of the Maclay Coast,” by William Macleay, 
F.L.S., &c. The ‘ Maclay Coast,” so named after the distinguished 
traveller Baron N. de Miklouho-Maclay, who resided there for 
nearly three years, is a portion of Astrolabe Bay, on the North 
Coast ot New Guinea, and the insects collected there and now 
enumerated, are of interest as being the only ones ever received 
from that portion of the island. The collection is very small, and 
the species have been for the most part previously described from 
Dorey and New Ireland, 
(4) “ Notes on the Zoology of the Maclay Coast, New Guinea. 
I. On a new Sub-genus of Pevamelide,” by N. de Miklouho-Maclay. 
Baron Maclay gives to the Bandicoot here described the name of 
Brachymelis Gavagasst. The sub-genus is characterised by having 
four upper incisors instead of five (in which character it resembles 
Pevameles Doveyanus, Quoy and Gaimard, and P. Cvckerelli, Ram- 
say), in having very short limbs, and in having the hair on the back 
very bristly. A stuffed specimen was exhibited, which Dr. Otto 
Finsch pronounced to be distinct from his New Britain species. 
(5) ‘‘ Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. No. XI,” 
by E. Meyrick, B.A. Mr. Meyrick continues the CEcophoride, 
describing in detail over 100 species, bringing the number of that 
family up to nearly 4oo. 
(6) ‘* Critical list of Mollusca from the north-west coast of Aus- 
tralia,” by John Brazier, C.M.Z.S., &c. Fifty species are here 
enumerated, with the geographical range and synonomy of each 
correctly defined. 
(7) ‘ Synonomy of some New Guinea Land Shells,” by John 
Brazier, C.M.Z.S.,&c. Mr. Brazier accompanied the reading of 
this paper with the exhibition of the tollowing species of Helicide : 
