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Papers.—(1) “Further Notes on Coccide in New Zealand,” by 
Mr. W. M. Maskell. The author remarked that specimens of nearly all 
species of the Coccidee family had been deposited in the Colonial Museum 
in bottles, together with a set of microscopic slides showing their 
anatomy. Dr. Hector took this opportunity of thanking Mr. Maskell 
for the immense labor he had expended on this collection, which he had 
presented to the Museum. It consisted of specimens of the blight 
insects, which did so much injury to trees, mounted with great skill, 
and would be of considerable value in the identification of various kinds 
of this pest. 
(2) “ Parasites of the Penguin, by Mr. W. M. Maskell. 
3) “Newly discovered and rare indigenous plants of New 
Zealand,” by Mr. W. Colenso, F.L.S. 
(4) “ Australian Cave Paintings,” by Dr. Curl. 
(5) “ New Tertiary Shells,” by Capt. F. W. Hutton. 
(6) ‘* Senecio katkourensis,” and 
(7) “ Erigeron nove-zealandie,” by Mr. J. Buchanan, F.L.S. 
(8) “Cat’s-Eye Bay,” by Mr. D. Sutherland. 
(9) “ On some additions to the Avifauna of New Zealand,” and 
(10) “ General Notes on New Zealand Ornithology,” by Dr. Buller. 
11) “Notes on the structure of the Mountain ranges of Canter- 
bury,” by Dr. Hector. This paper refuted statements made by Dr. 
von Haast, that the fossiliferous strata of Mount Potts and Clent Hills 
are carboniferous, and identical with the N. 8. Wales Coal Measures, 
and that, therefore, the whole of the Mountains of the Eastern Slope in 
Canterbury should remain in his Mount Torlesse formation as Upper 
Paleozoic, without being sub-divided. Dr. Hector argued that Mount 
Potts beds being Permian and the Clent Hill plant beds Jurassic, and 
as not a single species from either locality has been found in the N. S. 
Wales Coal formation, there was no absolute evidence of paleeozoic age 
of any strata in this district, except where the Matai series had been 
included by Dr. v. Haast in his Mount Torlesse formation. 
The Matai Series forms two great lines of outcrop, one along the 
eastern base, and one along the western base of the Main Range, and 
as both these outcrops lie to the eastward of the only areas of the 
Lower Paleozoic rocks in New Zealand, their relation to the mass of 
the Main Range which includes the Permio-Jurassic system, must be 
synelinal, and this justified the generalisation as to the structure of the 
Mountains which was given in the small-scale sketch map of 1883. 
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Sydney, 3lst December, 1884.—C. 8. Wilkinson, F.L.S., President, 
in the chair. 
New member.—G. Wall, Esq. 
Papers.—(1) ‘‘ Occasional Notes on Plants Indigenous in the 
immediate neighbourhood of Sydney. No. 8,” by Edwin Haviland. 
The subject of this paper is the plant Wahlenbergia gracilis of the order 
Campanulacese. The author explains the apparent absence of stamens 
in the mature flower, by the fact that the anthers which deposit their 
pollen, in most cases before the opening of the bud, are immediately 
afterwards lost by the rupture of the thin portion of the filament. The 
