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28*^^ April, 1SS6. — lì On some Lepidoptera from the Fly River, 

 New Guinea. By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.E.S. Mr. Meyrick's paper con- 

 tains an account of the Lepidoptera (Heterocera), collected by the recent 

 jVew Guinea Expedition. Specimens of twenty-five species were met with, 

 of which fifteen appear to be new, and are described by Mr. Meyrick. Near- 

 ly all of these may be said to be of normal Indo-Malayan types. A few 

 specimens, from their bad condition , were unidentifiable or unfit for de- 

 scription. — 2) Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part IV. 

 By George Masters. This part contains the names of, and references to, all 

 the known species of the Families — Trixagidœ, Eucnemidce, Elateridœ, Ce- 

 brionidœ, Rhipidoceridce, Dascillidœ, Malac oder mid œ, Cleridce, Lyniexylonidœ, 

 Cupesidce, Ptinidœ, Ciotdœ, Bostrychidœ, Tenebrionidœ. Cistelidœ, Pytkidœ, 

 Monommaiidœ, Melandryidœ, Lagriidœ, Pedilidce, Anthicidœ, Pyrochroidœ, 

 Mordellidœ , Rhipidophoridœ , Cantharidœ , and Oedoneridce ; numbering 

 1,494 species. — 3) Miscellanea Entomologica. By William Macleay, 

 F.L.S., etc. This is the first of a series of papers descriptive of some of the 

 new or rare Coleoptera in the Macleay Museum. The intention of the author 

 is to accompany these descriptions with a general review of the genera or 

 groups dealt with. The present paper is a revision of the genus Diphuce- 

 phala, to which over 20 new species are added. — 4) A Revision of the 

 Staphylinidae of Australia. By A. Sidney Ollif f, F.E.S., Assistant Zoologist, 

 Australian Museum. Part I. The object of this paper is to furnish entomolo- 

 gists with descriptions of all the Australian Staphylinidae at present known, 

 to summarise the characters of the genera, and to make known a number of 

 new forms. This first part contains the sub-family Aleocharinaî, of which 

 the tribes Aleocharina, Gyrophaenina and Gymnusina are all represented. 

 Among the most remarkable of the new forms belonging to the first of these 

 tribes is a species from N. S. Wales described under the name Apphiana veris 

 (gen. et sp. nov.), and characterized by having the basal joints of the an- 

 tennae enormously dilated on the outer side ; the 2"*^ joint being twice as 

 broad as long, the y^ equally broad but shorter, the 4^^, ö*** and 6*'^ shorter 

 and gradually decreasing in breadth ; in fades the species resembles a Pe- 

 lioptera. — 5. Notes from the Australian Museum. By E. P. Ramsay, 

 F.R.S.E., etc., and J. Douglas Ogilby. Two species of Fish are de- 

 scribed in this paper, Myripristis cm-neus, from the Admiralty Islands, pre- 

 sented to the Australian Museum by Capt. Farrell, and Syngnathus parviceps 

 from the Clarence River district, presented by Mr. Temperly, Inspector of 

 Fisheries. — The Hon. James Norton exhibited a number of Fossils (Chae- 

 tetes and Spirifers) from Black Head, a few miles south of Kiama. Also, 

 specimens of a porphyritic rock from Coolangatta, Shoalhaven, with the large 

 crystals present in some, and decomposed by weathering in others. — Mr. 

 Fletcher exhibited two stages of the segmenting ova of P&eudophryne Bi- 

 hronii, and tadpoles of the same species, still enclosed in their gelatinous 

 envelopes, but ready to hatch on gaining access to water. — Mr. Masters 

 exhibited a fine collection of Land Shells from Cairns, Queensland, among 

 which were large specimens of Helix bipartita, H. Macgillivrayi, H. Frank- 

 landiensis, and Fitrina Brazieri . 



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