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Synonyms. By John Brazier, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. — Dr. C o x exhibited a 

 fine specimen of the herring Flops saurus , Linn., purchased in a Sydney 

 fishmonger s shop, and believed to have been captured ofi" Broken Bay; the 

 species is occasionally taken in Port Jackson, though it is more properly an 

 inhabitant of tropical seas. Dr. Cox also showed specimens of the shells 

 referred to in his paper, and a very fine example of Voluta manilla from Tas- 

 mania. — Mr. Froggatt exhibited a fine series of mounted galls and coc- 

 cids in illustration of his paper , including a new^ Brachyscelid collected by 

 Mr. A. Roxburgh at Cobar , and representatives of several new species of 

 Opisthoscelis . — Mr. North exhibited a set of eggs consisting of three eggs 

 of Collyriocincla harmonica and an egg of Cacomantis pallida collected on the 

 Woolli Creek on the 19th inst. The cuckoo's e^g was deposited on the 

 17th inst., when the nest contained but two eggs of the Collyriocincla. This 

 is the only occasion he had known the egg of any cuckoo to be found in the 

 nest of the Harmonious Thrush. Mr. North also communicated a Note in 

 which he pointed out that the blue wren [Malurus cyaneus) is developing a 

 protective habit against the cuckoos which intrude their eggs upon it, as he 

 had found in several instances that the intruder s eggs were covered with a 

 layer of nest material ; a parallel instance has been recorded by Messrs. Scla- 

 ter and Hudson in their »Argentine Ornithology«. — Mr. A. M. Lea showed 

 a small collection of insects which inhabit ant and termite nests , including 

 a dipterous insect [Microdon variegata) , one of the Micro-lepidoptera at pre- 

 sent undetermined , both from Sydney ; and of coleoptera , two species of 

 Pselaphidae from Tamworth and Inverell, Anthrenus sp., from Sydney, La- 

 gria n. sp., from Cootamundra and Queanbeyan, and a fifth species (g. et 

 sp. indet.). — Mr. Fletcher exhibited for Mr. G. L. Pilcher of Rock- 

 hampton an undescribed longicorn , and two of the mud nests of one of the 

 solitary wasps [Eumenes Latreillei, Sauss.), together with specimens of the 

 wasp and of a species of Chrysis which, like members of the same family 

 elsewhere, plays the part of cuckoo; and he communicated a note giving 

 particulars of the mode of construction of the nests exhibited , and of the 

 habits of the maker and of the attendant intruder. 



III. Personal - Notizen. 



Oxford. An die Stelle des verstorbenen J. O. Westwood ist Mr. E. 

 B. Po ulto n zum Hope Professor gewählt worden. 



Necrolog. 



Am 17. April starb in Parma Giovanni Passerini, Professor der Bo- 

 tanik an der dortigen Universität, bekannt durch seine Untersuchungen über 

 die Aphiden. 



Am 20. Juni starb in Brighton Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, be- 

 kannt als ausgezeichneter Entomolog, namentlich Coleopterolog. Er war am 

 1. September 1813 in Penzance geboren. 



Am 21. October starb in Wien Dr. Robert Ritter von Schaub, be- 

 kannt durch seine Anatomie der Hydrachniden-Gattung Hydrodroma. 



Am 30. October starb in Wolfenbüttel Dr. A. K. Eduard Baldamus, 

 der bekannte Ornitholog. Er war 1812 geboren. 



Am 9. November starb in Cambridge, Mass., Dr. Hermann August 

 Hagen, Professor der Entomologie an der Harvard Universität. Er war am 



