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IL Mittheilungen ans Museen, Instituten etc. 



Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



July 30th, 1902. — 1) Botanical. — 2) Descriptions of new Species of 

 Queensland Lepidoptera. By Thomas P. Lucas, L.E..C.P., Ed., L.S.H., Lond., 

 M.R.C.S., Eng. Two genera and five species, distributed among three families 

 [Cossidae, Pyralididae^ and Xylorictidae) are described as new. — 3) A Revision 

 of the Genus Nolonomus (Fam. Carabidae ; Sub-fam. Feronim). By Thomas G. 

 SI cane. Seventy-two species are attributed to the genus, twenty-seven being 

 described as new. — 4) Contributions to a Knowledge of Australian Entozoa. 

 No. ii. On a new Species of Distomum from the Sawfish-Shark [Pristiop/iorus 

 cirrafuSj Lath.) By S. J. Jo hnston , B.A,, Economic, Zoologist, Technological 

 Museum, Sydney. The worm has an extremely mobile neck in the living state. 

 Its most characteristic features are its size, the character and position of the 

 suckers, the folded but unbranched limbs of the intestine, the grape-like vitel- 

 line glands, and the very marked development of the excretory system. It falls 

 into Dujardin's subgenus Brachylaimus. — 5) Notes on Australian Zycaem't/ac. 

 By G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E. Lycaena nigra^ Misk., is referred to 

 the genus Megisba, Moore. Holochda purpurea^ Grose-Smith and Kirby, is 

 given as a synonym of //. cyprotus^ OUifF. Holochila cmdrodus, Miskin, and 

 H. subargentea^ Grose-Smith and Kirby, are given as synonyms of H. helenita, 

 Semper. The sexes of Ogyris oroetes. Hew., and O. amaryllis ^ Hew., are 

 described; likewise two new species. The paper concludes with a Note on 

 0. iantJiis, Waterh. — Mr. Froggatt exhibited samples of wheat showing 

 the difi"erent ways in which the grain weevil [Calandria oryzae^ Linn.) and 

 the grain-moth larva [Plodia interpiinctella Hubn.), damage stored wheat. 

 Also three samples of wheat taken from the same bag and kept under similar 

 conditions, two only of which showed damage by weevil. Likewise cuttings 

 of apple wood from the Ryde district showing curious red blotches and spots 

 caused by the presence of San José Scale [Aspidiotus perniciosus^ Comst.). — 

 Mr. H. S. Mort exhibited a specimen of Cerithium dubium, Sowerby, from 

 Port Jackson, a new record for New South Wales; and one of Typhis 

 philippensis, Watson, also from Port Jackson. — Mr. Waterhouse exhibited 

 Megisba nigra^ Misk., [çf Q) from Cairns, Q.; Holochila cyprotus OllifF, ((^ 

 Ç ) from Sydney, these specimens having been determined by the late Mr. 

 Olliff; H. helenita Semper, [ç^ Q) from Cairns; Ogyris oroetes Hew., (cf Q) 

 from Townsville, Q.; 0. amaryllis, Hew., {(^ Q) from Richmond River; 

 0. Hewitsoni, n. sp., {çf Q) from Victoria and Townsville. — Mr. Johnston 

 showed sections and a mounted specimen of the Distomum discribed in his 

 paper. — Mr. North exhibited a nest and two eggs of the Buff-sided Robin, 

 Poecilodryas cervinivenirts , Gould, together with a skin of the bird, procured 

 on the 17th January, 1902, near the Daly River, Northern Territory, S.A. 

 The nest is a thick-rimmed cup-shaped structure externally formed of thin 

 plant-stalks, scales of bark, rootlets, and fine spiral vine tendrils, the inside 

 being lined with a few dried grass stems, and a quantity of black vegetable 

 fibre resembling horse-hair. It averages externally 3 inches in diameter by 

 P/^ inches in depth, the inner cup measuring IY2 inches in diameter by 

 1 Y4 inches in depth. The eggs are oval in form, the shell being close-grained, 

 smooth and lustreless. They are of a faint yellowish-green ground colour, 



