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30*^^ January, 1889. — 1) Description of a new Noctuid of the genu& 

 Phyllodes. By A. Sidney Oil iff, F.E.S. The beautiful insect here described, 

 and for which the name P. Meyricki is proposed, was exhibited at the Societj''s 

 last meeting. — 2) and 3) Botanical. — Mr. Brazier exhibited a specimen 

 of a marine shell, Euthria cornea, Linn., previously known from the Medi- 

 terranean, now recorded for the first time from the South Pacific, the spe- 

 cimen exhibited having been found at Wagap, on the west coast of New 

 Caledonia, by Mr. R. C, Rossiter. Also specimens of the Cuban land-shell, 

 Subulina octona, Chem., obtained at Nekity, east coast of New Caledonia, by 

 Mr. R. C. Rossiter, examples of which from another locality, also in New 

 Caledonia, were exhibited at the Society's meeting of October last (vide Ab- 

 stract for October 3F*, 1888). — Mr. Whitelegge exhibited a specimen 

 of Voluta fusiformis, containing a very rare hermit crab, Clihanarius slrigi- 

 manus, White, previously recorded only from Bass's Straits. On the feet of 

 the crab are a number of specimens of Paecilasma ßssa, Darwin, a rare cirri- 

 pede previously only known from the Philippines. On the surface of the 

 shell are specimens of a species of Balanus, and of an hydroid zoophyte, Hy- 

 dractina laevispina, Carter, the exact habitat for which species was not known 

 at the time it was described. He also exhibited another rare cirripede, Diche- 

 laspis oi-thogonia, Darwin, a species described in 1851, its habitat being un- 

 known. It does not appear to have been obtained since it was described. 

 There are five clusters in the Australian Museum attached to as many frag- 

 ments of the stems of a species of Virgularia. The whole of the exhibits are 

 from Port Jackson, and form interesting additions to our fauna. — Mr. A. 

 Sidney Oil iff exhibited Zopherosis Georgii, a fine heteromerous beetle, of 

 which he had recently found several specimens at Mt. ^Mlson, Bhie Moun- 

 tains. — A note on the characters of Danais Chrysipptis, L., and D. Petilia, 

 Stoll, and the occurrence in Australia of these two butterflies, was read on 

 behalf of Mr. W. H. Miskin of Brisbane. 



lY. Personal - Notizen. 



Bonn. Im Laufe des Wintersemesters habilitirten sich als Privat- 

 docenten Dr. Alexander König für Zoologie, und Dr. Walter Voigt für 

 Zoologie und vergleichende Anatomie. 



Necrolog. 



Am 5. Februar starb in Warschau nach kurzem Leiden im 49. Lebens- 

 jahre Wassili Nikolaewitsch Ul janin, seit October 1885 Professor der 

 vergleichenden Anatomie und Embryologie an der physikalisch-mathema- 

 tischen Facultät der Warschauer Universität. Er war am 17./29. September 

 1840 in Petersburg geboren, studirte in Moskau und hat sich durch mehrere 

 tüchtige Arbeiten bekannt gemacht. 



Druck Ton Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



