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had been caused to flow from a pool higher up by one of his companions, 

 the weather being very hot and dry until the heavy rain accompanying the 

 heavy thunderstorm later on in the afternoon. — In reply to an enquiry on 

 the part of Mr. A. Sidney Olliff as to the exact habitat of the splendid Luca- 

 nid beetle, Phalacrognathus Muelleri, described by Sir William Macleay in 

 1885 (P.L.S.N.S.W., Vol. X. pp. 135 and 474) from two specimens about 

 which the only information then available was that they came from North 

 Australia , Mr. F. A. Skuse said that specimens had recently been received 

 by the Australian Museum from Russell Scrub , Boar Pocket , near Cairns, 

 Queensland. 



February 24th, 1892. — Mr. Fro gg a tt exhibited 1) a series of speci- 

 mens illustrating the life-history of the butterfly lalmenus evagoras ^ Don., 

 the larvae of which he had recently obtained at Maitland on the foliage of 

 Acacia decurrens, and had noticed that they were visited by numberless ants, 

 attracted by a sugary excretion : 2) a large arboreal spiny grasshopper re- 

 cently obtained by Mr. Bäuerlen, botanical collector of the Technological 

 Museum, at Ballina, Richmond River, much resembling in appearance the 

 rough and thorny creeper upon which it is found: and 3) a small collection 

 of rare beetles obtained either by Mr. Bäuerlen at Ballina or by the exhibi- 

 tor at AUalong , near Maitland , and including Monohammus sp. , Hehecems 

 crocogaster Boisd., Steiioderus ostricilla, Newm., Phaolus Macleayi, Pasc, X.ylo- 

 nychiis sp., Amphirhoe decora^ Newm., Penthea solida, Pasc, Prophanns cu- 

 preuSj Gray, and Brenihis sp. — Dr. Cox exhibited a noteworthy collection 

 of starfishes, remarkable sponges, and fine specimens of Gorgonias brought 

 up by pearling divers from considerable depths ofi" the extreme north-west 

 coast of Australia, for the opportunity of exhibiting which he was indebted 

 to Mr. Gibbins, who had taken much trouble to bring specimens. Also spe- 

 cimens ( Q and (J') of the prawn Palaemon ornaius, Olivier, which has recently 

 and suddenly appeared in great numbers in the Hunter River , and is now 

 coming into the market for edible purposes, though in his experience such 

 had never been previously the case. Also good photographs of angler-fishes, 

 and of a »siamese-twin« shark [Acanthias antaretica) from New Zealand. — 

 Mr. A. G.Hamilton sent for exhibition a specimen of a large hairy caterpillar 

 infested with several hundreds of parasitic mites, found by him at Illawarra. 



2. Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in Nürnberg. 



Auf Anregung der Geschäftsführer der 65. Versammlung der Ge- 

 sellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte haben wir die Vorberei- 

 tungen für die Verhandlungen der Abtheilung No. 5 : Zoologie über- 

 nommen und beehren uns hiermit, die Herren Vertreter des Faches 

 zur Theilnahme an den Sitzungen ganz ergebenst einzuladen. 



Wir bitten, Vorträge und Demonstrationen frühzeitig — vor Ende 

 Mai — bei dem unterzeichneten Einführenden anmelden zu wollen, 

 da die allgemeinen Einladungen , welche Anfang Juli versendet wer- 

 den, bereits eine vorläufige Übersicht der Abtheilungs-Sitzungen 

 bringen sollen. 



Der Einführende : Der Schriftführer : 

 Dr. Heerwagen, Karl Manger, 

 Kgl. Reallehrer, Realschulassistent, 

 Maxfeldstraße 23. Tafelhofstraße 8. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



