AQ92 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 
(4) “A List of the Cucwide of Australia, with notes and descrip- 
tions of new species,” by A. Sidney Olliff, Assistant-Zoologist, Australian 
Museum. In this paper, which is a preliminary contribution towards a 
monograph of the family, 14 species are added to the Australian fauna. 
Ten new species are described, including five belonging to the genus 
Lemophleus. A fine new Brontes from Port Darwin and the Richmond 
River, measuring 14 mm. in length, is characterized under the name of 
B. Macleayi. It is distinguished from all the Australian species of the 
genus by its rather convex elytra, and in having the prothorax with the 
anterior angles very prominent, and the sides feebly serrate. A table 
showing the geographical distribution of the species is added. 
(5) “Description of some new Fishes from Port Jackson,” by J. 
Douglas-Ogilby, Assistant-Zoologist, Australian Museum. Four fishes 
are here described—a new genus and species of Blenniide—Petraites 
heptaolus, also Platycephalus macrodon, Percis nova-cambria, and Latris 
Ramsayi, the latter remarkable in its want of villiform teeth. 
(6) ‘Note on Neoanthias Guntheri, Cast,” by J. Douglas-Ogilby, 
Assistant-Zoologist, Australian Museum. Mr. Ogilby regards Neoanthias 
Gunthert and Anthias longimanus as the same, and that they really 
belong to Schlegel’s genus Caprodon, and should be named Caprodon 
Schlegelit. 
(7) “Notes on the Geology and Water Supply of the interior of 
New South Wales,” by the Rey. J. Milne Curran, F.G.8S. The author 
points out the conditions under which the plains of the western interior 
have been formed, explains the river system, or drainage of the level 
country, and indicates the sources of the subterranean waters which are 
met with in the gravel formations generally known as “drifts.” 
‘8) “Some remarks on the fertilization of the genus Goodenia,” 
by E. Haviland, Esq. The author brings forward evidence which he 
believes to be confirmatory of his previous paper on the same subject, 
and points out some peculiarities in that and kindred genera liable to 
lead to misconception as to their mode of fertilization. 
(9) ‘Notes on a Medusa from the tropical Pacific,”by R. von Len- 
denfeld, Ph.D. Two specimens of Siriope rosacea, Gegenb., were lately 
procured and examined by Dr. Lendenfeld. This Medusa had not been 
observed since it was described many years ago by Escholtz. 
(10) “Contributions to the Zoology cf New Guinea. Notes on 
birds from the Astralobe Range, with descriptions of some new 
species,” by E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c. In this paper two new forms 
of Paradise birds, Parotia Lawseit and Lophorina superba minor, are 
described. The former differs chiefly from its ally from Mount Arfak 
in the form of the frontal crest, and olive coloured shield—the latter 
chiefly in size; measurements of specimens from both districts are © 
given. The remaining portion of the paper gives a list of species 
hitherto only recorded from Mount Arfak. 
(11) “Description of a new species of Collyriocincla, from Queens- 
land,” by E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c. The species described is from 
Cairns District, Northern Queensland, and is named C. Bower. 
Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., exhibited a collection of recent shells, 
which had beeu obtained at depths of from 24 to 60 feet in sinking 
through the estuarine deposits of the Stockton, and Bullock Island and 
