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II. Mitteilungen aus Museen, Instituten usw. 



1. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



Abstract of Proceedings, June 29th, 1910. — Mr. D. G. Stead recor- 

 ded, as an addition to the fish- fauna of New South Wales, a species of 

 Serranid Perch, Diagramriia crassispiiiKni Rüppel (= D. affine Günther), a 

 fine example of which, measuring G74mm, and weighing 16' 4 lbs., had been 

 received by the Department of Fisheries, early in May from Port Macquarie. 

 He also placed on record the second known occurrence of the Pristipomatid 

 fish, Therapon jarhua (Forskal); a specimen^ measuring 143,5 mm, having 

 been received from the same locality. Mr. Stead also showed a piece of 

 conglomerate, presenting a blood-red appearance, from a river-bar in the 

 Barwon Hiver — an interesting spot because of suggestive remains of native 

 fish-traps still to be seen there. — Mr. A. II. Me Cul lo eh exhibited, by 

 permission of the Curator of the Australian Museum,* a small sunfish, i?aw- 

 zania makua Jenkins, w^hich had been forwarded to Sydney by the Curator 

 of the "West Australian Museum. This species has hitherto been recorded 

 from Honolulu and Japan only, though a specimen has been in the Australian 

 Museum for many years, which was received from Mauritius. Also young- 

 specimen of Cijffus noraccîandiac Clarke, from the Viktorian coast. They 

 difi'ered from the description of the adult in lacking several important char- 

 acters, but their identity with the New^ Zealand species was proved by Mr. 

 Waite, who had compared sj^ecimens of different sizes from both localities. 

 A half-grown specimen, from New Zealand, was also exhibited for com- 

 parison. — Mr. T. Steel exhibited a quantity of the dead bodies of an ant 

 Iridomyrmcx nitidus Mayr, from Herbert Pv iver, Queensland, found in March, 

 1908, in numerous little heaps scattered over the surface of the ground. The 

 heaps varied from a few dozen bodies to many thousands. The ants were 

 busy bringing the bodies and placing them on the heaps. Could this morta- 

 lity have been due to an epidemic of some sort? Microscopically the ants 

 exhibit no injury or give any indication of the cause of death. Ij Monograph 

 of the genus SyntJiemis (Neuroptera: Odonata). By P. J. Tillyard M.A., 

 F.E.S. — The most important points discussed are: — 1) The position of 

 the genus in the subfamily Corduliinae. The view is put forward that it 

 should be seperated from the Macromina ^ so as to constitute a subgroup 

 Syntheniina. Reasons for this are given, both in the remarkable difi"erences 

 of the larvae, and in the neuration of the imagines. 2) Subdivision of the 



