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A., is particularly interesting. — 3) Description of a new Species of Tortricidae. 

 By J. Hartley Durrant. {Communicated by A. Sidney Olliff.) A new species 

 of Palaeobia from Tumut and Mt. Kosciusko is described under the name P. 

 longestriata. — 4) Stray Notes on Lepidoptera. No. 2. By A. Sidney Olliff, 

 F.E.S. A short note descriptive of a new species of Libythea from Somerset, 

 N. Australia, proposed to be called L. Nicevillei , hitherto confounded with 

 L. myrrha, Godart , and of a singular variety of Euschemon Rafflesiae from 

 the Richmond River, N.S. Wales. — 5) Notes on Australian Aboriginal 

 Stone Weapons and Implements. Nos. X. — XV. By R. Etheridge, jun. A 

 continuation of former Notes read before this Society. The author now de- 

 scribes additional stone knives from Northern Australia , and one made of 

 bottle glass ; small and beautifully formed spear-heads from Kimberley ; 

 larger lanceolate spearheads from Nicholson River and Settlement Creek, 

 N.W. Carpentaria ; talismanic stones from New England and North Queens- 

 land, the latter a very interesting tael formed of two rock crystals joined by 

 a gum-cement mixed with human hair ; a gouge from North Queensland ; 

 and an awl , or some form of piercing instrument , made of a nail, and por- 

 tion of a human radius. The author is indebted for an opportunity of de- 

 scribing these interesting specimens to the kindness of Mr. C. W. de Vis, 

 M.A. , Curator of the Queensland Museum, and Messrs. W. W. Froggatt 

 and E. C. Blomfield. — Mr. Hedley showed a colony of the nests of a trap- 

 door spider, together with specimens of the animal, from Rose Bay. These 

 spiders are abundant round Sydney , occurring even in the public parks of 

 the city. A favourite spot for them is a patch of mossy earth in the crevice 

 of a sandstone rock. The species exhibited forms a wafer-like lid, not as in 

 some species a thick door like a gun-wad. The presence of several egg-bags 

 in the larger burrows would indicate that the present month (February), is 

 the breeding season. — Mr. Fletcher exhibited two specimens of a land 

 planarian [Bipalium kewense , Moseley) , collected by Mr. J. J. Lister at 

 Upolu, Samoa, under stones in the bush ; and a specimen of the same spe- 

 cies from Eltham, Victoria, collected by Mr. W. W. Smith; seeing that this 

 planarian has now undoubtedly been introduced into many widely separated 

 localities , and that the species of the genus whose habitats are certainly 

 known belong to the Palaearctic and Oriental regions, there seems little 

 ground for supposing it to be indigenous in Samoa. Also living specimens 

 of three species of frogs {Hyla caerulea, H. Peronii , and Limnodynastes Sal- 

 minii, Stdr.), brought from Goangra on the Namoi, near Walgett, by Mr. A. 

 Carson ; these specimens offer fresh evidence of the very wide distribution 

 of these three species in the interior of the colony; in the specimens of L. 

 Salminii the dorsal stripes which in spirit specimens are pink or rose-red 

 are of quite a different tint being a bright ochreous-yellow. Specimens of an 

 interesting frog {Hyla gracilenta) from the Richmond River were also exhi- 

 bited; the species has not previously been recorded from N.S.W. 



3. Bitte. 



Der 2. Band meiner «Monographie der Turbellarien«, welcher die 

 Tricladen und Polycladen enthalten wird , ist so weit gefördert, daß 

 demnächst der die Landplanarien betreffende Theil zum Abschlüsse 

 gelangen wird. 



