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hinter einander. Dicht oberhall) dieser Kernschnüre weicht das Plasma 

 der mittleren Schicht, deren Kerne sich inzwischen über den gesammten 

 Leib zerstreut haben, aus einander, so daß die Reihe cubischer Zellen 

 direct auf die Kernschnüre zu liegen kommt. Aus der Anordnung der 

 Kerne und der Gestaltung der Plasmamassen kann man jetzt mit aller 

 Bestimmtheit voraussagen, daß das äußere Syncytium die Ringmuscu- 

 latur, das innere aber die Längsmusculatur liefern wird, tllier die 

 Zukunft der cubischen Zellen läßt sich auf dieser Entwicklungsstufe 

 noch kein sicheres Urtheil abgeben. 



(Schluß folgt.) 



III. Mittlieilimgeii aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Società Entomologica Italiana in Firenze. 



Adunanza del IO Luglio lb&7. — Horwath, G., Note emitterologiche. 



— Casagrande, D., Trasformazioni del sistema digerente dei Lepidotteri 

 nel passaggio della larva alla imagine. — Cuccati, G., Struttura del cer- 

 vello della Somomì/ia erythr acephala . — De Carlini, A., Rincoti del Sotto- 

 ceneri, raccolti dal prof. Pavesi. — Emery, C, Nuove formiche. — Lo stia 

 di Santa Sofia, U., Su Coleotteri della Sardegna. — Magretti, P., 

 Imenotteri pompilidei lombardi. — De Ber to lini, S., Coleotteri del Tren- 

 tino. — Ber lese. A., Catalogo delle Tentredini italiane. — Targioni 

 Tozzetti, A., Note entomologiche: Sulla biologia della jSr/ocam^a cerosa. 



— Intorno alla Psyllodes pulchtila Loew, dell' Asia minore, trovata in Italia 

 sul Cercis siliquastriim. — Sulla Trioza lanri. — Sidla conformazione e la 

 biologia delle larve di Bihio horlulanus. — Origine e struttura del pupario 

 nella Cecidoìnyia del grano. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



25*i> May, 1887. — 1) Botanical. — 2) The Insects of the Cairns 

 District, Northern Queensland. By William Macleay, F.L.S., &c. This is 

 the first of a series of Papers, descriptive of the many novelties contained in 

 a very large collection of Insects made by Mr. W. W. Froggatt, in the 

 Cairns district, during the year ISSG. The present Paper contains de- 

 scriptions of 50 species of the Coleopterous tribes of Geodephaga, Lamelli- 

 cornes, and Malacodermes. — 3) Descriptions of New Australian Fishes. By 

 Dr. E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c., and J. Douglas-Ogilby. Two La- 

 broid fishes are here described — Chœrops Macleayi found in Port Jackson, 

 and Labrichthys cyanogenys, a fish of large size and magnificent colouring, 

 taken in Broken Bay. — 4) Description of a new species oi' Epimac/ms, from 

 New Guinea. By Dr. E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c. In the de- 

 scription given of this species. Dr. Ramsay points out that it is allied to, but 

 distinct from, E. magmis, and may be distinguished from all other known 

 species by the light oil-brown colour of the chest and under surface, and the 

 rosy-mauve reflections, also by the extreme length of some of the tail-feathers, 

 which exceed 2Y2 feet in length, the entire length of the bird exceeding 



