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und iu auderen Geweben der kranken Seidenraupe vorkommen. Allen 

 späteren, die Krankheit der Seidenraupe behandelnden Autoreu sind 

 meine Angaben unbekannt geblieben, und doch gewähren sie, wie ich 

 meine , für die Beurtheilung der Frage , in welchem Verhältnis der 

 Parasit zur Krankheit steht, einen Anhaltspunct. 



III. Mittlieiluiigeii aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



25*'" July, 1888. — 1) The Insects of King's Sound and its Vicinity. 

 Partii. By William Ma cl e ay , F.L.S., &c. This paper contains a list of 

 all the Lamellicorn insects in the collection made by Mr. Froggatt in the 

 "West Kimberley district. Of the 76 species recorded, 59 are described as 

 new, but are all referable to known genera. The genera most numerous in 

 species are Onthophagtis and Ileteronyx. The sub-family Celoiiiides is repre- 

 sented by four species only. — 2) Catalogue of the known Coleoptera of 

 New Guinea, &c. Part II. By George Masters, Curator of the Macleay 

 Museum. Part 11. of this Catalogue comprising the Tetramerous and Tri- 

 merous divisions, amounting to about 1,100 species, completes the list of 

 Coleoptera hitherto described from the region under consideration. The total 

 number of species recorded is 2,079. — 3) Malaysian Land and Fresh-water 

 Mollusca. By Kev. J. E. Tenison Woods, F. G.S., F. L.S. After some 

 introductory remarks on the extent and physical geography of the region 

 under consideration, and on the characteristic features of its Land and Fresh- 

 water Mollusca, the author gives a list of about 400 species indigenous to 

 the Malay Peninsula in the states south of Keddah, and the Indian Archi- 

 pelago, not including the Philippines and New Guinea. A bibliographical 

 list is appended. — Mr. Ogilby exhibited a specimen of a deep-sea fish 

 [Chlorophthalmus nigripinnis) , originally described by Dr. Günther in the 

 Ann. of Nat. Hist., 1878, and figured in Vol. XXII. of the ,, Challenger 

 Reports". The original specimens were taken by the ,, Challenger" natura- 

 lists off Twofold Bay, in 120 fathoms; the specimen exhibited to-night, was 

 captured, a few days ago, ofi" Port Jackson in 70 fathoms, the only other 

 occasion on which the species has been met whith since its discovery. — Mr. 

 Ogilby also exhibited a photograph oî Acanihias Blainvillii, not hitherto re- 

 corded from New South Wales, and one of a variety of AcanthocUmis litioreus, 

 originally described by Forster in Cook's Voyage, the former having been 

 taken in deep water off Port Jackson, the latter under stones between tide 

 marks at Lord Howe Island. — Mr. Brazier exhibited a spherical stone 

 about Y2 iiich in diameter, found in the crop of a Goura pigeon [G . Alber- 

 asi, Salvad.), from Hall Sound, New Guinea. Also a tube of fresh- water 

 shells [Segmeiiiina australieiisis, E. A, Smith) from Waterloo Swamps. — Mr. 

 MacDonald showed under the microscope an interesting exhibit of Rotifers 

 [Megolutrncha sp.), living in clusters on pond weed. — Mr. Burnell exhi- 

 bited two living Slow-worms [Typhlops nigrescens] , from Wentworthville near 

 Parramatta. 



Drack von Breitkopf & Uârtel in Leipzig. 



