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No. 2. The genus Liparetrus. By William Macleay, F.L.S., etc. This 

 is a complete monograph of the genus Liparetrus. All the old species are 

 redescribed, many new ones added, and the genus is subdivided into several 

 sections and subsections. Altogether about 100 species are characterized. — 

 4) Revision of the Australian Lepidoptera, No. 1. By E. Meyrick, B.A., 

 F.E.S., etc. Five families of the Macro-Lepidoptera or Lesiadae, Arctiadae, 

 Hypsidae, Syntomididae and Zygaenidae are monographed, numbering about 

 150 species, about half that number being new to Science. — 5) Notes on 

 Synonymy of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. By E. Meyrick, B.A., 

 F.E.S., etc. The synonymy of fifteen species of Micro-Lepidoptera is cor- 

 rected, from an examination of specimens in the British Museum. — Mr. 

 Douglas-Ogilby exhibited the tongue of a specimen of Lates calcarifer 

 shewing that it is partially covered with patches of granulose teeth, as pre- 

 viously pointed out by Dr. Bleeker and the Hon. W. Macleay, but denied 

 by European Naturalists ; the lingual teeth are similar in form and compo- 

 sition to those of the other tooth-bearing bones, and the term villiform 

 cannot be applied to them. — Mr. Macleay exhibited eighty-five species 

 from his own collection of the insects described in his paper on the genus 

 Liparetrus. — Dr. Ramsay exhibited photographs of the skeleton oi Megaceros 

 Hibernicus, the Irish Elk, taken from a very fine specimen recently received by 

 the Australian Museum ; Tasmanian stone axes — all pebbles rudely chipped 

 and without definite shape ; and a double-headed axe from the Admiralty 

 Islands. — Mr. Brazier exhibited a large series of shells of the genus 

 Triton comprising examples of the following species; Iriton Tritonis, Linn., 

 from the Solomon Islands; T. nodi/erus, Lam., from Marseilles, France; 

 and the variety T. australis from Berry's Bay, and Bottle and Glass Rocks, 

 Port Jackson, and from Port Stephens. The type from the Mediterranean is 

 a thick and heavy shell, whereas the Australian variety is much thinner. The 

 latter extends also to Japan. — Mr. Masters exhibited a living specimen 

 of Phyllurus inermis, the »rock scorpion« of quarrymen — caught at Eliza- 

 beth Bay, a lizard which is now becoming scarce about Sydney; and a spe- 

 cimen of each sex of a N. American butterfly — Papilio androgens — together 

 with a third specimen shewing the characteristic form and colour of both 

 sexes one on the right, the other on the left half of the insect. — Mr. 

 C. S. Wilkinson exhibited a very large specimen of Apkaiiaia gigatitea, and 

 a piece of sandstone with numerous minute markings believed to be those 

 of ostracoid shells, both obtained by Mr. David, F.G.S., from the marine 

 beds of the Lower Coal Measures, near Patterson ; also a specimen of a re- 

 markable species of Planorhis embedded in ferruginous sandstone, from a 

 depth of 25 feet from the surface at Cockatoo Island, This specimen was 

 sent by Mr. J. H. Maiden, and it is of much interest, being the first fossil 

 shell found in the Hawkesbury formation. 



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