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ptera from various parts of the continent are described as new, while some 

 additional particulars about a few species previously described are also re- 

 corded. — 6) Studies in Australian Entomology. No. I. Review of the 

 Genus Sarticus (Fam. Carabidae) . By Thomas G. S loa ne. The author re- 

 views the genus, giving a succinct diagnosis of the characters which dis- 

 tinguish it from closely allied genera among the Feronides, and adds several 

 new species. — Mr. A. Sidney Olliff exhibited, on behalf of Mr. C. S. 

 Wilkinson, a community of "Wasps [Polistes sp.) from Drake, near Tenter- 

 field, recently obtained by that gentleman. — Mr. Olliff also showed a 

 selection of insects from a large and interesting series from Mt. Kosciusko, 

 recently obtained on behalf of the Trustees of the Australian Museum by 

 Mr. Helms. Although the collection contains many new forms, particularly 

 among the Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, no peculiar mountain forms which 

 so often characterise the faunas of high altitudes were found; but he thought 

 there were tsvo noteworthy points wdth regard to the collection, namely, the 

 occurrence of certain distinctly Tasmanian types among the Orthoptera and 

 Coleoptera, and the general similarity of the fauna to that of the higher ele- 

 vations of the Coast Range. — Mr. Skuse exhibited a large collection of 

 Diptera (numbering about 650 specimens) also obtained by Mr. Helms under 

 circumstances similar to those just mentioned. It contains several new and 

 remarkable forms , among which a new genus of TipitUdae longipalpi with 

 pectinate antennae is one of the most interesting. The excellent state of 

 preservation of so large a number of minute specimens and the skill displayed 

 in mounting them alike testify to the ability and industry of the collector. — 

 Mr. Helms offered some remarks upon some of the more striking forms in 

 the collections referred to, more particularly the wingless grass-hoppers: and 

 he also alluded to his discovery of Peripatus at altitudes up to 5700 feet. 



SP* July, 1889. — 1) Description of a new species of lodis ; with Re- 

 marks on Pleins hnperialis, Olliff. By Thomas P. Lucas, M.R.C.S. For the 

 new species of lodis — of which three specimens were recently captured in 

 Brisbane by Mr. Illidge — the name of P. Illidgei is proposed. The second 

 part of the paper consists of critical remarks on Pielus iwperialis, Olliff, which 

 the author states is identical with P. liyaVmains, Schäffer. — 2) Botanical. — 

 3) On Rhopalocera from Mt. Kosciusko, New South Wales. By A. Sidney 

 Olliff, F.E.S. In this short paper some 16 species are recorded from spe- 

 cimens obtained by Mr. R. Helms, a most painstaking and energetic collec- 

 tor, who recently made an excursion, chiefly in the interests of Entomology, 

 on behalf of the Australian Museum. The collection contains both the spe- 

 cies described from the mountain by Mr. Meyrick, as well as a new Xeiitca 

 proposed to be called X. Coi-reae. — 4) Botanical. — 5) Note on the Biblio- 

 graphy of Lord Howe Island. By R. Etheridge , jun. This paper is supple- 

 mentary to a recently published w^ork (,,Lord Howe Island — Its Zoology, 

 Geology, &c.," Mem. Austr. Mus., 1889, No. 2), and gives a digest of 

 certain valuable reports by Dr. Foulis, Mr. White, Captain Denham, R.N., 

 and Dr. J. Dennis MacDonald, contained in the ,, Votes and Proceedings 

 of the Legislative Council of N. S.W., for 1853", and with which, when 

 contributing to the above-mentioned work , the author had been unable to 

 meet. — Dr. Ramsay sent for exhibition (1) numerous specimens of Peri- 

 patus collected by Mr. Helms, on behalf of the Australian Museum, at high 

 altitudes on Mount Kosciusko, N.S.W.; (2) three species of the smaller 



