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in the crevice of a sandstone rock. The species exhibited forms a wafer- 

 like lid, not as in some species a thick door like a gun-wad. The presence 

 of several egg-bags in the larger burrows would indicate that the present 

 month (February), is the breeding season. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited twj specimens of a land planarian (Bipalium 

 kewense, Moseley,) collected by Mr. J. J. Lister atTTpoju, Samoa, under 

 stones in the bush ; and a specimen of the same species from Eltham, 

 Victoria, collected by Mr. W. W. Smith ; seeing that this planarian has 

 now undoubtedly been introduced into many widely separated localities, 

 and that the species of the genus whose habitats are certainly known 

 belong to the Palrearctic and Oriental regions, there seams little ground 

 for supposing it to be indigenous in Samoa. 



Also two instances of floral prolification in the " Flannel-flower " 

 (Actinotus helianthi), in which from the ordinary umbels spring, in 0113 

 case about seven, in the other eleven small secondary umbels each with 

 its involucre of woolly bracts ; the specimens were gathered at Oatley a 

 few days ago. 



Also living specimens of three species of frogs (Ili/la coendea,. H. 

 peronii, and Llmnodynastes salminii, Str. ), brought from Go nigra on 

 the Namoi, near Walgett, by Mi'. A. Carson ; these specimens offer 

 fresh evidence of the very wide distribution of these three species in the 

 interior of the colony; in the specimens of L. salminii the dors d stripes 

 which in spirit specimens are pink or rose-red are of quite a different 

 tint, being a bright ochreous-yellow. Specimens of an interesting frog 

 ( lli/la gracilenta) from the Richmond River were also exhibited; the 

 species has not previously been recorded from N.S. VV. 



Sydney, March 25th, 1891. — Professor Haswell, M.A. D.Sc., 

 President, in the chair. 



New member. — Mr. Oswald B. Lower, Adelaide. 



Papers. — (1) "On the Classification of Eucalypts," by Rev. VV, 

 Woolls, Ph.D., F.L.S. After critically reviewing the characters of 

 Eucalypts which have, from time to time, been made use of for 

 classificatory purposes, more particularly those of the anthers and of the 

 bark as set forth in the antherial and cortical systems of Bentham and 

 Mueller, the author suggests the probable value of a classification based 

 on the characters of the fruit — such as shape, position of the capsules, 

 the number of cells, and the appearance of the valves, &c. 



(2) "On the Trail of an extinct Bird," by 0. VV. De Vis, M.A., 

 Corr. Mem. A new genus and species (Lithoplmps ulnaris) are 

 provisionally proposed for an extinct pigeon whose ulna was found in 

 deposits of the Nototherian period at Warwick, Darling Downs, 

 Queensland. 



(3) " Note on an Extinct Eagle," by C. VV. De Vis, M.A., Corr. 

 Mem. The generic name Taphaetus is now proposed for a bird whose 

 femur came to light in the same deposits as the ulna of LitJiopliaps, and 

 which presents characters irreconcilable with those of any genus known 

 to the writer. To the same genus in all probability must be referred 

 the species previously described as Uroaetus brachicdis (Proc. Roy. Sec. 



