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nicated by Dr. D. Sharpe, F.R.S., on behalf of the Committee for investigat- 

 ing the Fauna and Flora of the West Indian Islands. Of the species enu- 

 merated 46 were described as new, which included three new genera, viz. 

 Mysmenopsis^ Homalometa, and Mesobria. — Prof. Alfred Newton, F.R.S., 

 exhibited some specimens of new or rare birds' eggs, and read some notes 

 upon them. Amongst these were the first properly authenticated examples 

 of the eggs of the Curlew-Sandpiper [Triiiga stibarqiiata) obtained by Mr. 

 Popham on an island in the mouth of the Jenisei River in July last. Other 

 eggs exhibited were those of Tttrdus varius^ Chasiempis sandviceiisis, Hima- 

 tione virenSj Emberiza rustica., and Pudoces Panderi. — P. L. S dater, Secre- 

 tary. 



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October 27th, 1897. — 1) Descriptions of new Species of Australian 

 Coleoptera. Part 4. By Arthur M. Lea. Thirty -four species, principally 

 belonging to the CurcuUonidae, are described as new; with critical notes and 

 remarks on synonymy. — 2) On the Lizards of the Chillagoe District, North 

 Queensland, By R. Broom, M.D., B.Sc. Twenty-three species were col- 

 lected during a six months' residence at Muldiva, 70 miles west of Herberton, 

 a district in which during eight months of the year (April — December) as a 

 rule there is practically no rain. A species of Lygosoma is described as new. 

 — 3) On a Trnchypterus from New South Wales. By J. Douglas Ogilby. In 

 this paper the author gives a detailed description of a young example washed 

 ashore near Newcastle, and reviews at length our present knowledge of the 

 genus in the south-western Pacific. Eight previous examples have been re- 

 corded, and it is considered that there are good reasons for believing that 

 these are separable into two if not three species, which are identified as T. 

 JacksuniensìSj Ramsay; T. Jacksoiiiensis polystictus^ subsp. nov., and T. ara- 

 watae^ Clarke. — 4) Contributions to a more exact knowledge of the Geogra- 

 phical Distribution of Australian Batrachia. No. 5. By J. J. Fletcher. 

 The present contribution is based upon the examination of collections from 

 Tasmania and West Australia. In the British Museum Catalogue (2nd ed.) 

 seven (?eight) species are attributed to Tasmania , and fourteen to West 

 Australia. Three additional species are now recorded for the former Colony, 

 and six for the latter, including an undescribed species of Crinia belonging 

 to the group having the abdominal surface non-granulate. — Mr. Brazier, 

 on behalf of Mrs. Kenyon, exhibited specimens of the following Mollusca 

 (Fam. Veneridae) found on the Victorian coasts, and contributed a Note on 

 the same: — Venus gallmula, Lam., V. australts, Sowb., V. scalarina, Lam., 

 V. Peromi, Lam., V. aphrodma, Lam., V. spwca, Sowb., and Tapes ßammi- 

 culata, Lam., originally described under Venus. — Mr. Brazier exhibited, 

 and contributed a Note descriptive of a new Volute from the Lakes Entrance, 

 Victoria. The only specimen available at present is unfortunately somewhat 

 broken, — Mr. Froggatt exhibited a number of scale insects [Eriococcus co- 

 riaceus, Mask.), upon a twig of Eucalyptus, among which had been placed a 

 great number of the eggs of the scale-eating moth Thalpochares coccophaga^ 

 Meyr, The eggs are pale pink, circular, and beautifully ribbed. The scales 

 were infested with the larvae of Cryptolaermis Montrouzieri^ Muls., one of our 

 useful small black ladybird beetles. Both these enemies of Eriococcus are of 



