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Subfamily Crypiorhynchides being in considerable confusion, it is proposed 

 to examine and redescribe all the Australian genera and species referred to 

 it. The genus Poropterus is treated of in the present communication, seven- 

 teen species being described as new. — 2) Botanical. — 3) Descriptions of 

 some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 8. By W. J. Rainbow, 

 Entomologist to the Australian Museum. Ten new species are described and 

 figured, of which four are referable to the genus Eptira^ three to Argiope^ 

 and one each to Dicrostickus, Cheiracanthium, and AUus. In addition to these, 

 numerous specimens of architecture of spiders are described, and some 

 figured, the families illustrated being the Epeiridae, Dtassiclae, Attidae^ and 

 Thomisidae. — 4) Note on the genus Ap/irids, Cuv. & Val. By J. Douglas 

 Ogilby. The author contends that whereas five difi"erent fishes have been 

 assigned to the genus Aphritis^ C. «fe V., by various authors, these are refer- 

 able to but three distinct species, each of which represents a monotypic 

 genus; he distributes them as follows: — A. porosus and A. undulatus lege 

 Eleginops maclovinus (C. & V.) , Gill; A. Urvillii and A. Bassii lege Pseudap /iritis 

 Urvillii (C. & v.); A. gobio, Gnth., difi"ers greatly from Pseudaphritis, and 

 must receive a new generic name. He concludes by suggesting that Eleginus 

 bursinus, C. & V., is identical with P. Urvillii^ in which case our species 

 would have to be called Pseudaphritis hwsinus. — 5) Notes on the Species of 

 Cypraea inhabiting the Shores of Tasmania. By C. E. Bed dome. — Mr. G. 

 H. Halligan exhibited, for Mr. A. E. Flavelle, a specimen of a recently 

 hatched Echidna (about 50 mm from snout to tail, measured without straight- 

 ening the specimen), together with the eggshell, both taken from the pouch 

 on September 18th, 1897, at Gradgery, on Marthaguy Creek, County of 

 Gregory, N.S.W. — Mr. North exhibited a specimen of the young in down 

 of the Black-fronted Dotterel, Aegialitis melanops, Vieill., caught in the dry 

 bed of Cook's River, at Enfield on the 19th inst. Also a beautiful nest of 

 the Black-capped Honey-eater, Melithreptus lunulatus, Shaw, obtained in a 

 Eucalyptus at Belmore on the 21st inst. It is of the usual cup-shaped form 

 and is constructed almost entirely of white fowl's feathers and white cow- 

 hair, matted and held together with fine strips of bark-fibre and a few pieces 

 of string. — Mr. Fletcher exhibited some hymenopterous insects (Fam. 

 Thynnidae) forwarded last week by Mr. C. F. Bolton, of Moorong, Wagga, 

 as a sample of myriads closely clustered on the wires of his vineyard fence. 

 They were thickest in one spot where the clustering swarms extended over 

 a distance of about five feet on each of three wires — one above another. The 

 insects evidently had recently emerged from their underground cocoons. Pos- 

 sibly on account of the mild winter they had made an appearance earlier 

 than usual and in advance of the flowers. A week later some swarms were 

 still to be seen on the wires. 



Berichtigung. 



In dem Aufsatze von Nassonow (Zool. Anz. No. 543) muß es 

 p. 421, Zeile 14 und 15 von oben heißen: «wo die Thätigkeit der Leu- 

 cocyten als Phagocyten sich anschließt« (anstatt »ausgeschlossen 



ist«) . 



Druck von fireitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



