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known limit, Mr, Quaife found it associated with Cystopelta Petterdi , Tate, 

 and a mollusc doubtfully identified as Helicarion Verreauxi, PfeiflFer. These 

 southern forms here assume a subalpine position. — Mr. North exhibited 

 specimens of Ptilotis analoga, with nest and eggs, and Lamprococcyx malaya- 

 nus and eggs referred to in his paper. Also clutches of the following eggs 

 taken near Sydney last season, each set containing in addition the egg of a 

 difi'erent species of Cuckoo, viz., Ptilotis auricomis, with the egg of Cacoman- 

 iis pallida ; Acanthiza pusilla with egg of Cacomantis ßabelliformis ; Rhipidura 

 albiscapa with egg of Cacomantis insperaius\ Malurus cyaneus^ with egg of 

 Lamprococcyx basalts, and Geobasileus chrysorrhoea with egg of Lamprococcyx 

 plagosus. — Mr. North also drew attention to several species of rare birds 

 at present in the George-street Markets , among which may be pointed out 

 Poephila leucotis , Donacicola pectoralis , and Lophophaps phim,ifera , all cap- 

 tured in the neighbourhood of Croydon and Hughenden, Northern Queens- 

 land. — Mr. Hamilton showed specimens of rare or local butterflies [Ca- 

 syapa beata. Hew., (j^Ç, and Heteronympha mirifica, Butl.) from Illawarra. 

 C. beata is apt to escape notice, being crepuscular in its habits. H. mirifica 

 was seen in numbers wherever the brush vegetation occurs , but usually fly- 

 ing too high for capture. He also showed examples of the bees concerned 

 in the fertilisation of Candollea, and drawings illustrative of his paper. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Notiz. 



Dr. Erich Haase, welcher Bangkok in Kürze verläßt, bittet Sendungen 

 an ihn nach Königsberg i. Pr., Zoologisches Museum, zu richten. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Hârtel in Leipzig. 



