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lids, and the perfect insects with drawings of the same. Though apparently 

 most partial to the cultivated fig [Ficus carica] , the insects were also to be 

 found on one of the native figs [F. rubir/mosa) in the garden from which the 

 specimens exhibited came. — Mr. Miskin contributed the following ,,Note 

 on Danais Petilia, Stoll. In the Proceedings of the Society (Vol. IV. 2nd Set. 

 p. 119) appeared a note contributed by myself, in which I endeavoured ta 

 explain the distinction between this — one of our commonest species — 

 and D. chrysippus, L., which latter does not occur in Australia. In an edi- 

 torial foot-note appended thereto, which rather inconsequentially ignores the 

 whole drift of my remarks, reference is made to specimens of an insect fron). 

 North- West Australia in the Macleay Museum. Having had an opportunity 

 of inspecting these specimens, upon a recent visit to Sydney, Ï found them 

 to be a small form of D. genutia^ Cr. [plexippus, L.^, a species not hitherto 

 credited as Australian) , the wide black veining of the secondaries determin- 

 ing the species readily. I observe one error in my note, which I now correct, 

 i. e., the reference to Godart's as the only description; a description is also 

 contained in Stoll' s Supplement. A later careful comparison of both descrip- 

 tions confirms the correctness of my conclusions". — Mr. North on behalf 

 of Mr. K. H. Bennett sent for exhibition a set of the eggs, three in number, 

 of the Glossy Ibis, Ibis falcinellus, Linn., taken at Yandembah, New South 

 Wales, by Mr. Bennett on the 2nd of November, 1889. At a meeting of this 

 Society in November last, Mr. Bennett contributed some interesting notes 

 on the breeding-places of this bird. The eggs are lengthened ovals in form, 

 and are of a deep greenish-blue colour, the shell being slightly rough in 

 texture and lustreless; they measure as follows, length (A) 1- 94X1-33 

 inch; (B) 1- 95X1- 35 inch; (C) 1- 97X1-31 inch. A set in the Austra- 

 lian Museum vary from pyriform to a lengthened oval, one specimen being 

 somewhat sharply pointed at one end. Length (A) 2-16 XI- 48 inch; (B) 

 2-21 X 1-4 inch; (C) 2-2 XI- 47 inch. The eg^^ of the Glossy Ibis can 

 readily be distinguished from those of any other bird by the intensity and 

 depth of their colouring. — 



3. Notiz. 



Von lirehm's Thierleben ist eine neue Bearbeitung in Vorbe- 

 reitung. Derselben hat Prof. Pechuel-]j osche in Jena sich unter- 

 zogen. Die neue Auflage wird von der Verlagshandlung für den 

 Herbst dieses Jahres in Aussicht gestellt. 



IV. Personal - Notizen. 



Klausenburg. Dr. Stefan Apathy ist zum Professor der Zoologie 

 und vergleichenden Anatomie an der Universität Klausenburg (Kolozsvar) 

 ernannt worden. 



1 Linné's name has, throuj^h a mistakon habitat (America) p;ivcn by him, given 

 rise to so much coufu.siou in the identity of his species, that the adoption of Cramer's 

 name is rendered desirable, for certainty. 



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