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second communication from Mr. Bates gave descriptions of some new 

 species of the Coleopterous families Cicindelidae and Carabidae, taken by 

 Mr. Pratt at Chang Yang, near Ichang, in China. — P. L. S c 1 a t e r , 

 Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



27*** February, 1&S9. — 1) Notes on the genus Lestophonus, Williston, 

 and description of a new Species. By Frederick A. A. Skuse. After briefly 

 recounting what is known of the Dipterous parasite [Lestophonus /reryaf, Will.) 

 of Icerya Piirchasi, Mask., from the time of its discovery by Mr. Crawford of 

 Adelaide, to its artificial introduction into California, the author points out 

 that two distinct species have been erroneously regarded by Dr. Williston as 

 identical, viz., the parasite of the above-mentioned Coccid and that of J/ono- 

 phlebiis Crawfordi, Mask. Having lately bred large numbers of both parasites, 

 the author has been enabled to give the matter a thorough examination, and, 

 with a view of assisting in the exact determination of the two species, sub- 

 mits a more complete description of L. iceryae^ and characterises the new 

 species under the name L. monophlehi. He is also of opinion that the genus 

 Lestophonus can be included in the family Oscinidae only as an anomalous 

 genus. Not only is the arista of the antennae entirely wanting, and the anal 

 cell present, but a rudimentary auxiliary vein is visible, and a pale posterior 

 basal transverse vein exists. — 2) Descriptions of two new species of Austra- 

 lian Cetoniidae. By Oliver E. Jans on, F.E.S. Communicated by A. Sidney 

 Olliff, F.E.S. In this short notice Mr. Janson describes two distinct new 

 forms of the genus Diaphonia, named respectively D. OlUffiana and B. adusta^ 

 one from Warra, new South Wales, the other from Western Australia. The 

 first of these was collected by Captain W. Peel, and is allied to the common 

 D. dorsalis, Don.: the characters of its female are added in a foot-note by 

 Mr. Olliff. — Mr. Brazier exhibited on behalf of Mr. R. C. Rossiter, a 

 pair of the eggs of the ,, Mallow Hen'' [Megapodius I^ayardi) from Malleolo, 

 New Hebrides. — Mr. Rohu exhibited four embryos of Crocodilus porosus 

 in rather advanced stages of development, from Queensland. 



IV. Personal -Notizen. 



Utrecht. E. Rosenberg ist nicht nach Amsterdam (wie in No. 305 

 irrthümlich angegeben wurde), sondern als Nachfolger des aus Gesundheits- 

 rücksichten abgetretenen Prof. W. Ko st er nach Utrecht berufen worden. 

 Nachfolger M. Fürb ringer's in Amsterdam ist G. Rüge von Heidelberg 

 geworden. 



Necrolog. 



Am 1 . März starb in Paris Charles Frédéric Martins, welcher, am 

 6. Febr. 1806 in Paris geboren, Professor der medicinischen Naturgeschichte 

 in Montpellier war und sich außer durch geologische, meteorologische und 

 botanische Arbeiten durch mehrere vortreffliche Untersuchungen über die 

 Morphologie der Säugethiere bekannt gemacht hat. 



Druck von Breitkojif i' Hfirtel in Leipzig. 



