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Prof. Bickerton asked if the two forms were fertile znter se. 
Mr. Fereday could not answer Prof. Bickerton’s question. All 
the specimens he had examined showed the nervures ot the wing 
to belong to one or other of the forms; there were no interme- 
diate variations. 
(8) ‘*On a new composite plant,” by Robert Brown, communi- 
cated by Professor Hutton. Glossogyne (?) kennedyi, n.s.—A small 
shrub with hispid branches, alternate, distant small leaves and 
solitary yellow flower-heads; involucre of two rows of bracts; 
florets of the ray ligulate, female, those of the disc tubular, herma- 
phrodite; stigma bifid, rounded at the apex ; anthers scarcely co- 
hering, obtuse at the base, without any terminal appendage; 
pappus of 6-8 awns, only two or three of which are long, barbed 
with retrorse stiff hairs; achenes obconic, slightly compressed, 
with two of the angles minutely winged. 
Habitat.—Godley Heads, Banks Peninsula. 
(9) “‘On the Immortality of the Cosmos,” by Prof. Bickerton. 
(10) *‘ Further problems on the impact of Cosmical bodies,” 
by Professor Bickerton. 
(11) “ Remarks on the report in ‘ Nature’ of September, 1882, 
on Prof. Haeckel’s address to German Naturalists at Ejisen- 
ach,” by Mr. W. M. Maskell. 
OTAGO INSTITUTE. 
Dunedin, October 31st, 1882.—W. Arthur, Esq., C.E., Presi- 
dent, in the chair. } 
Mr. J. McKerrow, Surveyor-General, was nominated as a 
governor of the New Zealand Institute. 
Mr k. L. J. Ellery, F.R.S., of Melbourne, was nominated as 
an honorary member of the New Zealand Institute. 
Papers—(1) ‘“‘ Descriptions of new Crustaceans,” by Geo. M. 
Thomson, F.L.S. The author described and figured four new 
species of Crustaceans recently obtained by him— 
Edotia dilatata, n.sp.—A form intermediate between Edotia and 
_ Idotea, sent from Auckland by Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S. 
Pseudega punctata—A new genus and species, belonging to Ciro- 
lanine (Fam. Aegidz), but differing from any known form. Found 
on the Ocean Beach, Dunedin. 
Covrophium excavatum, n.sp.—from Boat Harbour Creek, Brighton. 
Oxycephalus edwardsii, n.sp.—This singular pelagic torm is quite 
distinct from any describea in the British Museum Catalogue, but 
is only advanced provisionally until comparison can be made with 
the forms described in Dr. Claus’s recent memoir on the Platysce- 
lide (in Arbeit Zool.-Zoot. Inst. Wurzburg ii, 1879). Numerous 
specimens were obtained on the Ocean Beach, Dunedin, where 
they had been washed ashore. 
(2) *‘ New Zealand Copepoda,” paper ii, by Geo. M. Thomson, 
F.L.S. The following forms were described and figured :— 
Thorvellia brunnea, Boeck, var. antarctica ; almost identical with the 
European form. Dunedin Harbour. 
Cyclops gigas, Claus. Tomahawk Lagoon, near Dunedin. 
Cyclops sevrulatus, Fischer. Tomahawk Lagoon, near Dunedin. 
Cyclops chiliomt, n,sp.—Gravel pits, Eyreton; collected by Mr. 
C, Chilton, 
