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Twelve years later appeared in the publications of the some Society his 

 " Anmarkningar och Tillagg till Finlands Smaf jgiiril-Fauna." 



Up to that time Dr. Tengstrom had lived at Helsiiigfors, a comparative centre 

 of learning and civilization, but lie then moved to the remote Kexholm, on an island 

 in the large Lake Ladoga, w^here he was comparatively out of the world. 



He died on December 26th, 1890, at the age of 69. 



The Mesozoic and Teetiaey Insects of New South Wales : by E. 

 Etheridge, Jun., and A. Sidney Olliff j from the Memoirs of the G-eological 

 Survey of New South Wales. Palaeontology, No. 7 ; pp. 1 — 12, 4to, with two plates. 

 Sydney, 1890. 



The knowledge of Fossil Insects has made gigantic strides latterly, more es- 

 pecially in France, Germany and North America ; important discoveries have also 

 been recently made in our own islands. But, as the authors of this OfEcial Eeport 

 tell us, the fossil insect remains previously known from Australia were quite 

 insignificant in number, and, until recently, the oldest was of the Cretaceous horizon, 

 viz., a Dragon-fly from Queensland described by Dr. H. Woodward as ^schna 

 flindersensis. The others (witli one exception) were Tertiary. Nor is the number 

 of Australian fossil insects very largely increased by those made known in this 

 memoir ; nevertheless, very important additions are made, and a substantial nucleus 

 now exists around which to accumulate further discoveries, which, probably, have 

 not yet been made, not because there is but little to discover, but because little or no 

 attention has hitherto been paid to tlie subject. 



In the present memoir a single mesozoic fossil from New South Wales is de- 

 scribed and figured as Cicada Lowei, but another from Queensland is also described, 

 in tlie remains of a Buprestid, showing the elytral sculpturing in a very perfect 

 manner. 



The Tertiary remains, newly discovered, are more numerous. They include 

 C hironomus venerahilis {DipteraJ ; Ephemera Culleni (Pseudo-NeuropteraJ , a May- 

 fly, of which several nymphs are figured, the single wing is of somewhat anomalous 

 form, and is detached from the body to which it is presumed to belong (PL i, fig. 5) ; 

 and a presumed Lampyrid larva (Palcsolycus prohlematicusj , this should be further 

 investigated. 



A summary of the known Australian Fossil Insects gives the following small 

 results. Mesozoic : a Cicada and a Buprestid. Cretaceous : a Dragon-fly. Ter- 

 tiary : Cydnus, Chironomus, Ephemera, Lagri a (?), Lampyrid, Cyphon, and Oxy- 

 telus ; one of each. The authors express a not unreasonable surprise at the absence, 

 at present, of any indications of Palaeozoic insect remains. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : February 16th, 1891.— Mr. R. C. 

 Bradley in the Chair. 



Messrs. C. J. Fryer, Warwick, and A. Madeley, Dudley, wore elected Members 

 of the Societ}'. 



