506 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 



The Neuroptera are represented by two species of Libellula. 



Of Diptera there are only a few species, but the paucity of 

 number is compensated for by the extraoi-dinary appearance of 

 one species. The head is transverse, quite twice as broad as the 

 body, and pointed at each end, having much the shape of the 

 " eeliman" of the Australian aboriginal. The eyes occupy the 

 pointed ends of this wonderfully-shaped head. This insect in no 

 way resembles, and must not be confounded with the well 

 known geuus Diopsis, which has its eyes on a long peduncle. 

 It belongs to the genus Zygoilirka, of Wiedemann, a genus 

 of which very little seems to be known except that the curiously 

 shaped head is an ornament of the males only, the head of the 

 female being rounded. 



This brief summary of the Entomological productions of New 

 Ireland will give the naturalist a general idea of the character 

 of its fauna. Mr. Cockerell made the collection which I 

 have now summarised in the period of a few months, and from a 

 very small portion of the island. What may we not expect from 

 a thorough and complete search of that and the adjacent island 

 of New Britain'? New Ireland extends for nearly 150 miles from 

 north to south ; and New Britain, 350 miles from east to west, 

 and both of these islands, with the small exceptions of the collec- 

 tions made at Port Praslin by the Cocpiille in 1823, and Mr. 

 Cockerell in 1875-187G, present an untouched and certainly a 

 very promising and rich field for the naturalist and collector. 



Notes on Laevicardium Beechei — by John Brazier, C.M.Z.S., 

 Cor. Mem. Boy. Soc, Tas. 



L^evicardium Beechei. 



Cardium Beechei, Adams and Reeve. Zool. Moll. Voyage of 

 H.M.S. Saniarang, 1850, p. 78, pi. 22, fig. 12. 



Hah. Sooloo Sea, between the island of Borneo and Mindanoa, 

 10 fathoms ; also, Yellow Sea at one of the islands of the Corean 



