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larvae were fit to leave it. Nests were also found of the curious fish Gym- 

 narehus niloticus. These were made in about three feet of water and floated 

 on the surface. The nest was two feet long and a foot wide ; the walls of the 

 nest stood several inches out of the water around two sides and one end. The 

 opposite wall was low, and here was the entrance to the nest. Nests of He- 

 terotis niloticus^ Hyperopisus bebe, and Sarcodaces odoë were also described. 

 The paper was illustrated with lantern-slides, and specimens of some of the 

 larvae were exhibited. — A series of papers on the collections made during 

 the "Skeat Expedition" to the Malay Peninsula in 1899 — 1900 was read. 

 Mr. J. Lewis Bonhote reported on the Mammals, and enumerated the fifty- 

 four species of which specimens had been obtained. One new species was 

 described as Mus ciliata. Mr. A. Annandale gave a short description, il- 

 lustrated with lantern-slides, of the country traversed, and read the notes he 

 had made on the habits and natural surroundings of the insects he had ob- 

 served. Mr. F. F. Laidi aw gave an account of the Frogs collected by him- 

 self and Mr. Annandale : they embraced examples of twenty-nine species, of 

 "which four, viz. Rana signala^ R. lateralis^ Bufo jerboa^ and Microhyla inor- 

 nata, had not previously been recorded from the Malay Peninsula. The Earth- 

 worms collected during the Expedition were reported upon by Mr. F. E. Bed- 

 dardj who described from amongst them ten new species belonging to the 

 genus Amyntas. A communication was read from Dr. Arthur G. Butler, 

 F.Z.S., containing an account of the Butterflies collected by Mr. Richard 

 Crawshay in the Kikuyu Country of British East Africa in the years 1899 

 and 1900. The species represented in the collection were 116 in number, 

 six of which were described as new in the paper. — Mr. R. Newstead, 

 F.E.S., contributed a paper on a new Scale-Insect [Walkeriana pertinax), col- 

 lected by H.B.M. Commissioner Alfred S harpe, C.B., at Zomba, British 

 Central Africa, which was stated to be probably the largest species of Coccid 

 yet discovered, the maximum measurements being 20 — 50 mm long and 

 10 mm high. As in the genus Callipappus the abdomen was intus-suscepted, 

 forming a pouch for the reception of the ova and the hatching of the larTae. 

 6258 of the latter were taken from the body of a single female. — P. 

 L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



October 31st, 1900. — 1) Tasmanian Land Planarians : Descriptions of 

 new Species, etc. By Thos. Steel, F.L.S., F.C.S. A number of land pla- 

 narians from Tasmania sent by Mr. H. Stuart Dove, of Launceston, have 

 been studied, and the author has been enabled to give a critical review of 

 some previously described forms. Two new species and one new variety are 

 described, and observations on, and descriptions of, the young of several 

 species are given. Two Australian species not hitherto found in Tasmania 

 are recorded. The total number of known Tasmanian forms is thus brought 

 up to twelve species and two varieties, of which six species and two varieties 

 are peculiar to Tasmania. — 2) Botanical. — 3) Studies in Australian Ento- 

 mology. No. X. Description of a new Tiger-beetle from Western Australia. 

 By Thomas G.Sloane. Tetracha greyanus^ n. sp., from the Carnarvon District 

 (Shark Bay), W. A., is described. The author dissents from M. Fleutieux's 

 views as to the identity of T. [Megacephala] Howitti, Casteln., and T. Frenchi^ 

 SI. (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1895. p. 205). — 4)— 6) not zoological, — 



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