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 3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



March 25th, 1891. — 1) Botanical. — 2 On the Trail of an extinct 

 Bird. By C. W. De Vis, M.A., Corr. Mem. A new genus and species 

 Lithophaps ulnaris) are provisionally proposed for an extinct pigeon whose 

 ulna was found in deposits of the Nototherian period at Warwick , Darling 

 Downs, Queensland. — 3) Xote on an extinct Eagle. By C. W. De Vis, 

 M.A., Corr. Mem. The generic name Taphaetus is proposed for a bird 

 whose femur came to light in the same deposits as the ulna of Lithophaps, 

 and which presents characters irreconcilable with those of any genus known 

 to the writer. To the same genus in all probability must be referred the 

 species previously described as Uroaetus brachiali* i Proc. Roy. Soc. Qsld. , 

 Vol. VI, p. 161), its correct association with the genus Uroaetus being now 

 more than doubtful. — 4) The Land Molluscan Fauna of British New- 

 Guinea. By C. Hedley, F.L.S., Corr. Mem. The species already descri- 

 bed are enumerated and discussed, sundry errors in classification and habitat 

 being rectified , and twenty species mostly collected by the author himself 

 during a recent tour in Papua are described as new. Anatomical descrip- 

 tions of a few species are included. — Mr. Musson sent for exhibition a 

 collection of 63 species of New Zealand land and freshwater molluscafcollec- 

 ted by him during a recent visit, and determined by Mr. Suter, of Christ- 

 church. — Mr. Skuse drew attention to an interesting article in the last 

 number of the Pharmaceutical Journal of N.S.W.. on insects injurious to 

 drugs, one of them probably the same species of moth as was exhibited by 

 Mr. Froggatt at the Society's meeting in March, 1890, the insects shown hav- 

 ing pupated in a tin of cayenne pepper. — Mr. Fletcher exhibited for 

 Mr. J. H. Rose two living specimens of an inland species of frog [ChiroUp- 

 tes platycephalus , Gthr.), obtained near Walgett, previously only recorded 

 from Bourke and Dandaloo, N.S.W. It is an expert burrower, Mr. Rose 

 reporting that he has never met with it above ground. — Mr. Olliff exhi- 

 bited specimens of Icerya purchasi, the cottony-cushion scale insect from 

 Sydney, and specimens of the New Zealand ladybird [Vedalia cardinalis . 

 which preys on the Icerya, and Specimens of which have been so carefully 

 introduced into Californian orange orchards by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, with a view of keeping the pest in check. The ladybird 

 has been reported from Sydney, but this is probably erroneous. 



III. Personal - Notizen. 



Straßburg i/E. Ende Mail. J. habilitierte sich Dr. Franz von Wag- 

 ner als Privatdocent für Zoologie an der hiesigen Kaiser-Wilhelms-Uni- 

 versität. 



Necrolog. 



Am 30. April starb zu Philadelphia Joseph Leidy, Professor der Ana- 

 tomie an der Universität von Pennsylvanien . bekannt als tüchtiger Zoolog 

 und vergleichender Anatom, 61 Jahre alt. 



Am 28. Mai starb in London Peter Martin Dun can , im Alter von 

 67 Jahren , der verdienstvolle Forscher auf dem Gebiete fossiler Anthozoen 

 und Echinodermen. 



Druck von Breitkopf Sc Härtel in Leipzig. 



