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Derselbe zeigte Photographien von zwei neulieh für das Reichsmuseuni 

 in Stockholm erworbenen Takin [Budorcas taxicolor) und behauptete, daß diese 

 Art auf Grund der Strukturverhältuisse der Hörner und andrer ^Merkmale 

 mit den Kupicaprinen zusammengestellt werden muß und gar keine Ver- 

 wandtschaft mit Ovibos hat. Ur. Sven Ekman 



Redakteur der Verhandlungen. 



2. Lînnean Society of New South Wales. 



October 2Gth, 1904. 1) Notes on Australian Lycacnidae. Part IV. By 

 G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S., and R. E. Turner. This paper 

 comprises — 1) Critical or other notes upon Cyaniris tenella Misk.. Danis 

 macleayi Semp., Lmnpides coelestis Misk., L. hylas Cram., var. , Miletus 

 meleagris Waterh. (Q described], Miletus narcissus Fabr., Candalides erinus 

 Fabr., E. acasta Cox ^ Lycaenvsthes afßnis Waterh. (nom. nov.), Catochry- 

 sops platissa Herr.-Sch. , Chilades trochilus (= C\ putii KoM.)^ Zizera har- 

 sundra Moore, Nacaduba ßoriiida Butl. , Bindahara isabella Feld., and Li- 

 phyra brassolis Westw. 2) Descriptions of three genera proposed as new, 

 with Holochila albosericea Misk., Lucia jjyrodiscus Rosen., and Lycaena agri- 

 cola Westw., as the respective type species. And 3) some general remarks 

 upon several proposed alterations in the personnel of the Australian Section 

 of the Family as treated of last year in Part III. of this Series. In the pre- 

 paration of the paper the authors have had the advantage of an increased 

 knowledge of the de Xicéville collection in Calcutta, and especially of very 

 material help afforded by Mr. H. H. Dru ce, of London. — 2) Revisionai 

 Notes on Australian Carbi dae. Part I. Tribes Cambini, Famborini, Pseudo- 

 zaenini, Clivinini, and the Genus Nebriosoma. By Thomas G. Sloane. The 

 paper contains a tabular view of the tribes of the subfamily Carabinae found 

 in Australia, the tribal name P.'uedozaenini being proposed to take the place 

 of jMystropomini as required by the application of the law of priority. It is 

 proposed to revive as the name of a complex the Latreillian division Bipar- 

 titi, corresponding to the Scaritini of recent authors, which is considered to 

 include the two Tribes Clivinini and Pasimachini. The species of Pamborus 

 are tabulated. The genus divina in so far as it is Australian is revised 

 and brought up to date, several new species being added. A new genus 

 allied to Clivina, to be called Platysphyrus is suggested for a recently disco- 

 vered species from North West Australia. Mr. D. G. Stead mentioned in- 

 stances of recognisable valuations in shape and colouration in Australian 

 freshwater and estuarine fishes according as they frequented running streams 

 or normally saline waters, or were isolated in stagnant lagoons or the waters 

 were unduly saline during a period of drought. Dr. Greig Smith exhibited 

 the carcases of three bush mice affected with a skin disease about the head, 

 forwarded from Tamworth by Mr. W. W. Froggatt; also a preparation 

 under the microscope showing the growths to be of a fungoid character, 

 possibly a case of Mouse-Favus. Many deaths were reported as due to the 

 disease. Mr. Palmer stated that the female of a pair of Chestnut-eared 

 Finches [Taeniopygia castanotis, Gould] in his aviary, which were caught at 

 Lawson, laid altogether 17 eggs last year; and that this year she had reared 

 a brood of six young ones, and subsequently had laid three eggs. 



November 30th, 1904. 1) Contributions to the Study of Australian 

 Foraminifcra. Part I. By H. I. Jensen, B.Sc. This paper for the most 



