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Oephalopoden) eine nennenswerte Rolle spielt. Der Instinkt ist die 

 niedere Stufe geistiger Tätigkeit, der Verstand die höhere, und es wäre 

 eine verkehrte Methode , wenn man das Niedere aus dem Höheren ab- 

 leiten wollte. 



Ich stimme also mit Herrn Kollegen Dahl in manchen wichtigen 

 Punkten überein , aber ich muß mich verwahren gegen seine Angriffe, 

 umsomehr, daessichumdie Grundprinzipien der Tierpsychologiehandelt. 



II. Mitteilungen aus Museen, Instituten usw. 



Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



Abstract of proceedings, July 31st, 1907. — 2) Revision of the Australian 

 Species of the Genus Anthohosca [Hymenoptera: Fam. Scoliidae], with De- 

 scriptions of new Species. By Rowland E. Turner, F.E.S. — By careful 

 comparison with exotic species in the British Museum Collection, the author 

 has convinced himself that the insects classed in the Genus Antliohosca are 

 the male sex of the insects usually known in Australia as Dimorpìiojìtera Sm. 

 Smith himself described a single male as belonging to his genus, which is 

 undoubtedly an Antliohosca] but did not compare it in any way with other 

 males, which have hitherto been classed with the Thynnidae, Although cer- 

 tainly forming a link between the Scoliidae and Thynnidae, the structure of 

 the thorax in the female and the presence of wings will not allow of retention 

 in the Thynnidae. The genus must, therefore, be placed in the Scoliidae, 

 next to Myzine. The genus may be distinguished from the rest of the Sco- 

 liidae by the first abdominal segment, which is not strangulated in either sex. 

 It has a wide range over the Southern Hemis^ihere, occurring in S. America, 

 S. Africa, and Madagascar, but the species seem more numerous in Australia 

 than elsewhere. Twenty-one species are recognised. — 3) The Mollusca of 

 the Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland. Partii. By C. Hedley, 

 F.L.S. — This part enumerates the Gastropoda collected on and around Mast 

 Head. Thirty-seven new Species are described and figured, distributed among 

 the genera, Emarginula, Macrosdiisma, Gena, Clanculus, Gibbula, Minolia, 

 Calliostoma. Aleyiia, Astralium, Cijclostrema, Liotia, Moerchia, Eissoa, Anoba, 

 Ainphithalamus, Anahathron (2), Eissoina, Githna, Plesiofrochtis, Mathilda^ 

 Turritella, Crassea, Fossarus, Lippistes, Odostomia (4), Stilifer (2), Eulimella, 

 Omalaxis, Mitra, Pyrene (2), Gyliciina. The prize of the expedition was a 

 magnificent Astralium, with an orange lip, related to A. sulcatum, of New 

 Zealand. The genus Plesiotrochus is reviewed and remodelled. For several 

 genera and species the prior nomenclature of Bolten is restored. The geo- 

 graphical range of shells previously only noted on the one part from Torres 

 Strait, on the other from the neighbourhood of Sydney, is greatly enlarged. 

 Altogether two hundred and two moUusca are added to the known fauna of 

 Queensland. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Dr. Naohide Yatsn kehrt von der Columbia-Universität nach Japan 

 zurück; seine Adresse ist: Zoological Institute, Imperial University, 

 Tokyo, Japan. 



Drnck von Breitkopf £ Härtel in Leipzig. 



