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Dtsì.s Kenyonae. — Mr. H. R. Hogg contributed a paper which contained 

 additional information concerning the Australian Spiders of the suborder 

 Mygalomorphae. Out of a collection of forty specimens (comprising exam- 

 ples of eleven species and nine genera) received by the author no less than 

 nine species and five genera had proved to be new, and were described in 

 this paper. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



May 28th, 1901. 1) Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Lepi- 

 doptera (Fam. Noctuidae). By A. Jefferies Turner, M.D., F.E.S. Twenty 

 genera and about eighty-seven species are described as new. — 2) and 

 4) Botanical. 3) Geological. — Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited specimens and 

 offered remarks upon the characteristics and habits of two Port Jackson 

 fishes, the so-colled Doctor- or Surgeon-Fish [Prionurus microlepidotiis Lacep.) 

 and the Flute-mouth [Fistularia serrata Cuv.). — Mr. Froggatt exhibided 

 and offered remarks upon specimens of a flea [Echidnophaga ambulans Olliff.) 

 from a native cat [Dasyurus viverrinus Shaw), a species originally made known 

 as a parasite of a Monotreme [Echidna aculeata). Also photographs of a fiea 

 procured from a bandicoot [Perameles), showing the characters of Stephano- 

 circus dasyuri Skuse, described from the native cat. — Mr. North contri- 

 buted a Note on some Northern and Northwestern Australian Grass Finches; 

 and be exhibited skins and eggs of Sàura nana and Rhipidura dryas from the 

 Northern Territory of South Australia. The egg of Sisura nana is of a dull 

 buffywhite groundcolour irregularly spotted and blotched with umberbrown, 

 and similar underlying markings of of greyish-lilac which form an irregular 

 band around the larger end. Length 0,71X0,5 inches. The egg oï Rhipi- 

 dura dryas is of a dull yellowish- white groundcolour with an indistinct zone 

 of confluent spots and blotches of dark yellowish-brown , and bluish-grey 

 around the thicker end. Length 0,65X0,52 inches. The specimens described 

 are from the collection of Mr. C. French, junr. Also a skin of a Grass Finch 

 from Wyndham, North-western Australia, differing only from Poephila acuii- 

 cauta Gould in having the bill rich orange-scarlet instead of pale wax-yellow. 

 This is regarded as at least a very distinct variety which it is proposed to 

 distinguish under the name of Poephila aurantiirostris. — Mr. H. L. K e Ste- 

 ven exhibited specimens, and contributed a list, of sixteen species of Mol- 

 lusca of the Family Rissoidae from Moreton Bay, Queensland, none of which 

 had previously been recorded from that state. 



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