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descriptions of over one hundred species, for the most part referable to the 

 Families Malacodermidae , Mordellidae , Anthicidae , and Corylophidae. — 

 5) Life-Histories of Australian Coleoptera. Part III. By W. W. Froggatt. 

 The life-histories, and food plants of the following species are described in 

 this paper: — Aphannsium australe, Boisd. | Sfrongylurus scutellatus, Hope; 

 Atei-pus cuUratus, Fabr.; Eurhynchus laevior, Kirby; Axi'dcs dorsalis, Pasc; 

 Äletadoiicus pes filcms, Ollis ; Maec/iidius tibialis blanch.; M. rugosus, Blanch.; 

 Cadmus flavocinctu s , Saund. ; Melobasis iridescens, L. and G.; M. splendida, 

 Don. ; Cisseis maculata, L. and G. ; C. semiscabrosa , L. and G.; and Epi- 

 lachna 26-punctata ^ Dej. — Mr. Edgar R. Waite exhibited a number of 

 living «Waltzing« Mice, quite recently received from Japan , where these 

 curious animals appear to have originated. They were first made known in 

 Europe by M. C. Schlumberger, in 1893. Last year he published a descrip- 

 tion with figures copied from Japanese ivory carvings representing these 

 mice (Mém. Soc. Zool. de France, 1894, p. 63). M. Schlumberger' s mice 

 and also Mr. Waite' s are white variegated with black ; the exhibitor had bred 

 some entirely white but with discernible faint fawn marks indicating what 

 portions would normally be black. These mice are constantly rotating, and 

 this trait constitutes the peculiarity which gives to them their trivial name. 

 — Mr. Fletcher exhibited specimens of a Land Nemertine obtained by 

 Mr. R. Helms at Prett)^ Point, Mt. Kosciusco Plateau, probably Geonemertes 

 ausiraliensis , Dendy. Also specimens collected by himself near Gosford , of 

 a richer darker red than even the reddest examples of Geoplana sanguinea, 

 Moseley , for which when quiescent the animal otherwise might on casual 

 examination fairly pass. The only other record for New South Wales, is of 

 a similar red specimen obtained by Mr. R. Helms in the Richmond River 

 District some years ago*. Professor Spencer had obtained some Tasmanian 

 examples which were longitudinally striped with red ; but all the examples 

 from New South Wales yet seen , with the exception of those from Mt. Ko- 

 sciusco, are still more pigmented. The animal is rather a rare one in this 

 colony. 



2. 67. Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in Lübeck 



vom 16. — 21. September 1895. 



Abtheilung Zoologie. Einführender: Dr. phil. H. Lenz, 

 Lehrer an der Realschule. Schriftführer: Hauptlehrer Ad. Koch. 



Angemeldete Vorträge: 1) Prof. Dr. W. B las iu s -Braun- 

 schweig: Thema vorbehalten. 2) Privatdocent Dr. C. Apstein-Kiel: 

 Biologie des Süßwasserplankton. 3) Derselbe: Demonstration der 

 Plankton-Apparate und der Zählmethode. 4) Dr. H. Lenz- Lübeck: 

 Demonstrationen. 5) Prof. Dr. K. Brandt-Kiel: Über die Schließ- 

 netzfänge der Plankton- Expedition. 6) Privatdocent Dr. H. Loh- 

 mann: Über die Verbreitung der Appendicularien im atlantischen 

 Ocean. 7) Dr. H. Brockmeier-M. -Gladbach : Einige Mittheilungen 

 über Mollusken. 8) Prof. F. H e in cke- Helgoland: Thema vorbehalten. 



* P.L.S.N.S.W. 1891. Second Series. Vol. VI p. 167. 



DrucK von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



