president's address. 10 95 



Pi-oc. R. S. Tasm. I.e. — Note on Palinurus Rugelii from the 

 Schouten Islands. The sp. proV>ably extends also to N.Z. being, 

 it is thought, identical with P. tumidus. W. Saville Kent, F.L.S. 

 (p. 116). Fossil Crabs from P. Pliocene beds of the Yarra 

 Estuary. F. S. Wintle, F.L S. 



Entomology. 



Mr. Masters completes (Part VII.) his Catalogue of the Described 

 Coleoptera of Australia, amounting to 7201 species (p. 31). 



Mr. Macleay (Miscellanea Entomologica, No. III-V.) revises the 

 Scaritidaj of New Holland (p. 115) describes 95 new species of Cole- 

 optei-a from Cairns district, N. Queensland (pp. 213, 307), revises 

 the Helseides, a remarkable Au.stralian group of the Tene- 

 bi'ionidas (pp. 511, 634), gives a sketch of the Entomology, etc., 

 of King's Sound, N.W.A. Note on Scaritidte from the DaAvson 

 R. (p. 972). Mr. Olliff" desciibes Ithaca anthina, n.g. n.sp. of 

 (Edemeridpe (p. 153), continues his x^evision of the Australian 

 Staphylinidai (p 471), and desci'ibes Xenica, n.sp. (p. 976). 



Mr. E. Meyrick, F.E.S., contributes (I) descriptions of new 

 Australian Rhopalocera (p. 827) and (2) revision of the Geome- 

 tridae, with a supplement principally of W. Australian forms (p. 

 835), (3) descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera Pt. XIV. 

 (CEcophorida? continued) (p. 929). 



On a new Pielus from the Blue Mountains. By A. Sidney 

 Olliff and Henry Prince (p. 1015). 



Proc. R. S. Vict. I.e. — On the sound organs of Cijdochila Aus- 

 tralasicB (Green Cicada) by A. H. S. Lucas, M.A. (p. 173). 



On the Trogidseof S.A. J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. (p. 12) on 

 Ogyris Amaryllis (p. 13) on a supposed n.sp. of Phasmidte (p. 112); 

 and a classified list of the Geometriua found round Balhannah, 

 with notes on species. E. Guest (p. 126). 



Inst. N.Z. I.e. — Monograph of N.Z. Noctuina, 17 genera, & 

 represented by single wide ranging species, 5 endemic, with only 6 

 sp., 6 almost cosmopolitan. \ of the endemic sp. belong to 

 Leucania and llamestra, just as among the Geometrina, Larentta 



