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Both. December, 1889. — 1) Descriptions of additional Australian Pyra- 

 lidina. By E. Mej'rick, B.A., F,E,S. Thirteen species, mostly new, are 

 added to the list of Australian Pyralidina, including several of considerable 

 interest. — 2) Revision of Aiistralian Lepidoptera. Part III. By E. Mey- 

 rick, B.A., F.E.S. The families treated of in the present instalment are 

 the Hepialidae, which must be regarded as the ancestral family of the Bomby- 

 cina, and the Monocteniadae, the most characteristically Australian family of 

 the Geometrina. — 3) Notes on the Nidification of Menda vhnimcfa, Gld., 

 and Ocydromus sylvestris, Sci. By A. J. North, F.L.S. The nest and eggs 

 of the Merula, and the eggs of the Ocydromus here described, were recently 

 brought from Lord Howe Island, and are now in the Australian Museum. — 

 4) Notes on the Breeding of Stermda sinensis, Gmel., in Australia. By A. J. 

 North, F.L.S. The species in question was found to be breeding by Messrs. 

 Yardley and Grimes at the Tweed River Heads in October last. The eggs 

 have already been described by Colonel Legge from Ceylon, and have been 

 recorded from Formosa by Colonel Swinhoe ; but this is the first occasion 

 on which they have been noted from Australia. — 5) Botanical. — 6) Revi- 

 sion of the Genus Heteronyx. with Descriptions of New Species. By Rev. 

 T. Blackburn, B.A., Corr. Mem. The object of this paper is three-fold: 

 to give notes on such previously described species of the genus as the author 

 has failed to identify among the specimens to which he has had access ; to 

 amend ambiguities, &c., in the body of the work now completed; and to 

 give descriptions of species, 13 of which are proposed as new, which have 

 come to hand since the publication of the parts of the ,, Revision" dealing 

 with the sections to which they belong. — 7) Notes on Australian Coleo- 

 ptera, with Descriptions of New Species. PartV. By Rev. T. Blackburn, 

 B.A., Corr. Mem. A continuation of the author's researches on species from 

 various localities. — 8) Studies in Australian Entomology. No. II. By Thomas 

 G. Sloane. The author gives descriptions of six new species belonging to 

 the groups Carenides and Feronides. — 9) Description of a new Australian 

 Skink. By E. P.Ramsay, L.L.D., F.R.S.E., and J. Douglas O gilb y , 

 F.L.S. — 10) Descriptions of two new Skinks. By J. Douglas Ogilby, 

 F.L.S. A species of Lygosoma from the Solomon Islands, and a species of 

 Ablep/iarus from New South Wales are described in this paper. — Mr. Rohu 

 exhibited the upper jaw of a Death Adder [Acanthophis aiitarctica) in which 

 on one side there is an equally developed supplementary tooth placed on the 

 transverse plane. — Mr. A. Sidney Oil iff sent for exhibition three spe- 

 cimens (two males and one female) of Atyphella lychnus, together with a note 

 to the effect that, in answer to an appeal for information about the sexes of 

 the Lampyrid recently described under the above name, Mr. James D. Cox 

 had been good enough to forward to him the sexes of that species which he 

 had found in copula at Mt. Wilson. This most interesting discovery enables 

 him to state that, contrary to expectation, Atyphella belongs to the division 

 of the family in which both sexes are winged. The female has the head and 

 eyes much smaller than the male, and is altogether broader in form, and the 

 under side of the abdomen does not present distinct lightorgans. 



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