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 3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



March Slat, 1897. — 1) Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera, 

 with Notes on Synonymy. By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S. Twenty-six 

 species referable to the sections Bombycina, Geometrina, Noctuina, Pyrali- 

 dina and Tineina, are described as new. — 2) Studies in Australian Ento- 

 mology, No. viii. Descriptions of two new Tiger-beetles. By T. G. Sloane. 

 A new species of Megacephala from West Australia and of Tetracha from 

 Barrow Creek, Northern Territory of S.A., are described. — 3) Botanical. — 

 Mr. Fletcher exhibited two moths [Chrysiphona occultans^ Don.) bred from 

 caterpillars forwarded by Mr. A. Simson of Launceston, because of their 

 striking resemblance to the leaves of the sprouting shoots of Eucalyptus 

 amygdalina, on which they were found to be feeding. — Also, for Mr. C. T. 

 Musson, a specimen of a day-flying moth [Agarista Macleayi), one of a 

 number whose stridulating powers attracted attention on the 9th Nov., at the 

 Kurrajong Heights. Though known to Mr. Masters as a sound-producer, there 

 would appear to be no previous recorder of it in this capacity, nor is it in- 

 cluded among the stridulating species of Australian lepidoptera mentioned by 

 Messrs. H. Edwards, H. Tryon and G. F. Hampson. Also specimes of a 

 beetle [Rhopaea soror or an allied species) which appeared in prodigious num- 

 bers in the paddocks of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College at Richmond, 

 during the last two or three weeks of November. At night time they were 

 distinctly audible at some distance. Large numbers came into the houses, 

 attracted by the light. With them were associated a few specimens of Ano- 

 plognathus. Many of the specimens of Rhopaea were noticed to be infested 

 with a spider mite, doubtless a species of Gamasus. Mr. Trebeck 

 exhibited a specimen of a fish, Solenognathus spinosissimus. from Middle 

 Harbour. 



III. Personal -Notizen. 



Wien. An Stelle des Prof. C. Claus, welcher seine Stellung nieder- 

 gelegt hat, ist Prof. B. Hatschek aus Prag nach Wien berufen worden. 



Prof. Dr. Carl Berg, Director des Museo Nacional in Buenos Aires, 

 befindet sich auf einer Reise nach Europa und ersucht seine Correspondenten, 

 ihm etwaige Briefe oder sonstige Mittheilungen bis Anfang October d. J. an 

 die Buchhandlung des Herrn A. Frederking, Neuerwall 46, Hamburg, zu 

 adressieren. 



Necrolog. 



Am 26. März 1896 starb in Jokohama Herr Bernhard Schmacker im 

 44. Lebensjahr, vortrefflicher Malakozoolog. 



Am 15. Januar starb in Wien Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer, der 

 bekannte Lepidopterolog. 



Am 25. April starb in Lowestoft Sir Edward Newton, 64 Jahre alt, 

 Ornitholog (wie sein jüngerer Bruder Alfred). 



Am 7. Mai starb in London Abraham Dee Bartlett, geboren 1812, 

 der als , Superintendent of the Zoological Gardens ' sich reiche Verdienste 

 um die Blüthe des Gartens erworben hat und als trefi'licher Beobachter und 

 Biolog geschätzt war. 



Ornck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



