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exhibited were furnished with printed labels. Attention was 

 then given to the Australian Moths, and the task of setting out 

 specimens for exhibition was nearly completed. The systematic 

 arrangement of the cabinet specimens of Australian Beetles was 

 commenced, and incidentally with this, the duplicate series of the 

 same. As the work of rearrangement proceeded, the specimens 

 were cleaned and remounted to a uniform guage. 



A fine collection of one hundred and seventy-one Beetles 

 from the Weddin Mountains, was presented by Mr. H. W. Cox; 

 another, of a hundred and four, from the neighbourhood of 

 Sydney and the Blue Mountains, by Mr. H. J. Carter, M.A. ; 

 seventy-seven from the Fowler's Bay District, S. Australia, by 

 Mr. R. T. Maurice, including the rare Stigmodera mniszechi, 

 Saund. ; examples of Mastochihis australasicus, Perch., infested 

 with Mites ( Aponomma ecinctum, Newm.), from the Tweed River, 

 by Mr. J. Yardley. 



Amongst the Butterflies and Moths presented, may be mentioned 

 one hundred and ten from the New Hebrides, by the Rev. Dr. 

 Annand ; forty -six from the Blue Mountains and South Coast, 

 by Mr. G. A. Waterhouse; and thirty seven Moths from Kensing- 

 ton Downs, Queensland, by Mr. A. J. Ewen. 



A small but most valuable collection of Indian Mosquitos from 

 the N.W. Provinces of India, was presented by Major G. M. 

 Giles, I. M.S. ; these will prove of great service to us in the future. 



As illustrating the destructive work of Termites, two books, 

 Dalziel's "British Dogs," completely riddled by these pests, were 

 given by Mr. 0. H. M. Paine; and an interesting exhibit of the 

 nest of a Praying Mantis, with the insect and its young, was 

 forwarded by Mrs. Hall, from Liverpool. A Scorpion (Charon 

 australiarms, L. Koch), new to our cases, was obtained by Mr. C. 

 Hedley at the Barron Falls, near Herberton, Queensland. 



The exertions of Mr. J. C. Wiburd, one of the guides at Jenolan 

 Caves, have been the means of adding no less than tive hundred 

 and thirteen Spiders to our already rich Arachnidian Collection, 

 from the various caves and surrounding country at the locality 

 mentioned, accompanied by a reticularian web, the work of an 

 Amaurobius. 



Mr. J. J. Walker, r.n., of H.M.S. "Ringarooma," contributed 

 thirty-two Spiders from Freemantle and Port Lincoln, thirteen 

 from other parts of the continent, and one hundred and eighty 

 from the New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, and New Caledonia. 

 Of these, five are types, viz., Dicea bipimctata, Rainb.; D. regale, 

 Rainb.; Leptudrassus insularus, Rainl).; Argyrodes antipodiana, 

 Camb.; and A. walkeri, Rainb. Lycosa ccenosa, Rainb., was 

 originally recorded from Santa Cruz, now Mr. Walker has col- 

 lected it on Tanna and Lifu. Similarly, Jotus archi-pluvii, Peckh., 



