1296 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY. 



■with a deep transverse impression on each side. The posterior 

 tarsi with the articles shorter and thicker than usual in the 

 genus. 



9. — Having the elytra completely flattened on the hinder part 

 of the disc, and almost vertical on the sides and apex ; the wide 

 smooth space within the marginal border (representing the 9th 

 stria) wider than in the ^. 



Length ^ 17 J, breadth 6 mm. 



Eab. — Mt. Wilson, Blue Mountains, N.S.W. 



A very distinct species diifering from all other species of I^oto- 

 nomus I have seen in having distinct and deep lateral impressions 

 on the segments of the abdomen, and in the wide smooth space 

 within the marginal border of the elytra ; also in the flattened 

 elytra with vertical sides and apex in the 9. 



Three specimens taken by Mr. A. Sidney Ollifl". 



NOTES ON THE NIDIFICATION OF MERULA VINI- 



TINCTA, Old., AND OGYDROMUS SYLVESTRIS, Scl.* 



By a. J. North, F.L.S. 



NOTES ON THE BREEDING OF STERNULA SINEN- 

 SIS, Gmel., in AUSTRALIA* 

 By a. J. North, F.L S. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW AUSTRALIAN SKINK.* 



By E. R Ramsay, L.L.D., F.R.S.E., and J. Douglas 



Ogilby, F.L.S. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SKINKS.* 



By J. Douglas Ogilby, F.L.S. 



* Note. — The four papers read under the above titles have already been 

 published in the Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. I. No. 1 (March, 

 1890). 



