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It never sleeps in hollow trees, but it will, when raised, sometimes 

 take its refuge to a tree. 



Native Name »Wogoit«. 

 Christiania, 15. October 1895. 



II, Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



September 25th, 1895. — 1) Notes on Cicadas. By W. W. Froggatt. 

 An account of the visitation of 1894 — 1895 in the neighbourhood of Sydney 

 is given, with the dates of the appearance of the following common species: 



— Thopha saccata, Amyot, Cyclochila australasiae ^ Amyot, Macrouistria angu- 

 laris, Germ., Psaltoda moerens, Germ., P. ßavescens, Dist., Melampsalta me- 

 lanopygia. Germ., M. encaustica, Germ., and three species undetermined. — 

 2) Description of a Tree Creeper presumably new. By C. W. D e Vis, M.A., 

 Corresponding Member. Climacteris animosa, n. sp. Several examples were 

 obtained in clearings in the Mulga Scrubs , at Charleville , in November. 

 The male differs from C. leucophoea in the absence of guttural markings, 

 and in the unusually pronounced character of the stripes on the lower sur- 

 face : from C. melanota in the colouring of the upper surface and the want 

 of guttural stripes. The female most resembles that of C. erytkrops, but the 

 male differs from the corresponding sex of that species in the colour of the 

 supraciliary stripe and the absence of the buff pectoral band. — 3) On the 

 Dates of Publication of the early Volumes of the Society's Proceedings. By 

 J. J. Fletcher. The first twenty-eight Parts of the Proceedings. Vol.1 — VII. 

 were issued undated. As questions of priority of descriptions arise from 

 time to time, it has become desirable that the dates should, if possible, be 

 ascertained. The Society's official records up to September , 1882, having 

 been destroyed by fire , the list of dates now furnished is based upon data 

 kindly supplied by the librarians of some of the Sydney libraries, or by one 

 of the publishers. — Mr, Steel showed a Gecko [Gehyra vorax, Gir.) from 

 the E.ewa River, Fiji. He also remarked that the animal when alive is ex- 

 tremely flaccid, as if it had no bones ; it is also apparently to some extent 

 vegetarian in its diet, portions of leaves of the sugar cane as well as of an 

 undetermined plant having been found in the stomach of a specimen dissected. 



— Mr. Fletcher showed some English humble bees, the defunct portion 

 of a consignment from New Zealand recently brought over by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in the hope of the successful acclimatisation of the in- 

 sects. Of the remainder some were liberated in the Botanic Gardens, and 

 some in the Society's garden. As the bees were set free just after the first 

 of the recent rains , they should have a fair chance of doing well ; and any 

 information about their subsequent movements and operations would be 

 welcome. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Necrolog. 



Am 25. November starb in Basel Professor Dr, Ludwig Rütimeyer 

 im 71. Lebensjahre. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



