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12. Davainea spharoïdes n. sp. 



provient de Buteo vulpinus. Les exemplaires que j'ai examinés, tont 

 en possédant des organes génitaux bien développés ne contenaient 

 point d'oeufs. 



La longueur des exemplaires non mûrs est de 10 mm, la largeur 

 maximale de 0,25 mm. Les proglottis sont assez nombreux. Lescolex 

 a une forme sphérique légèrement aplatie en avant; ses crochets 

 mesurent à peine 0,006 mm étant au nombre de 200 environ. Les 

 ventouses sont très petites armées de crochets qui ont une forme tri- 

 angulaire. Les pores génitaux sont unilatéraux. La poche du cirrhe 

 est grande. Les testicules au nombre de 8 — 10 sont situés postérieure- 

 ment. L'ovaire est double, sans lobes. La glande vitellogène est 

 simple et médiane. 



IL Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



June 25th, 1902. — 1) — 4) Botanical. — As instances of the severity 

 of the prevailing drought, Mr. North exhibited, with the permission of the 

 Curator, specimens of Chlamydodera maculata and Philemon citreogularis^ 

 which had been received in the flesh by the Trustees of the Australian Mu- 

 seum. The former was shot in an apple tree on the 19th May in a garden 

 at Smithfield, about twenty miles from Sydney, by a son of Mr. James Stein, 

 the donor. The spotted Bower-bird, Chlamydodera macidata^ is an inhabi- 

 tant of the scrubs on the inland plains in the western and north-western 

 portions of the State, and seldom occurs east of Byrock. Philemon citreo- 

 gtdaris, another inland species, was procured on the 31st May by Mr. H. 

 Newcombe at Kurnell, or, as it is now called. Cook's Landing Place, on the 

 shores of Botany Bay. Previously neither of these species had been recorded 

 from the County of Cumberland. On the 16th May Mr. North saw a flock 

 of Pied Crow-shrikes {Streperà graculina] in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 

 several individuals of which have been since trapped, and are now in one 

 of the aviaries. Although this species frequents during the autumn months 

 the northern and western suburbs, he had never observed it in a wild state 

 in the city before. What might be regarded as an irruption of Blood-birds 

 [Myzomcla sanguinolenta) has taken place in the Sydney coastal districts. In 

 ordinary seasons during winter this species occurs near the coast only in 

 limited numbers. At present they are in hundreds at Middle Harbour, Long 

 Reef, Bondi, Randwick, Kurnell and intermediate localities where previously 

 they had been unobserved. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtol in Leipzig. 



