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Peninsula S. Australia; the species was probably imported with some 

 English grass seed which a few years ago was there cultivated; but this 

 appears to be the first recorded instance of its occurrence in Australia. — 

 Mr. Froggatt sent for exhibition a collection of Hymenoptera — about 

 100 species — recently obtained by him at Ballarat, Victoria; a large Tipnla 

 from Rose Bay ; and some Homopterous galls of both sexes , probably of a 

 small variety of Brachyscelis ovicola, Sehr., from AVollongong , together with 

 two species of parasitic Hymenoptera — one of them with a curiously de- 

 veloped last abdominal segment — bred from the female galls. — Mr. 

 Fletcher read a note, in reply to Dr. Dendy's recent article on the suppo- 

 sed oviparity of Peripatus Leuekartii Victorian Naturalist for September, 

 Vol. VIII, No. 5, p. 67), in which he pointed out that whatever the Victo- 

 rian Peripatus might be (whether oviparous as Dr. Dendy supposes; or like 

 P. novae- Zealandiae, though viviparous occasionally laying eggs which, 

 however, do not hatch, as observed by Prof. Hutton and corroborated by 

 Mr. Sedgwick), Peripatus, as it occurs in N.S.W., is certainly viviparous; 

 and in support of his statement he exhibited a series of twenty-eight embryos, 

 just those which had come under his notice in the dissection of two or three 

 females, or had been extruded during the drowning of several others, and 

 comprising specimens old enough to show the full number of developing 

 postoral appendages up to individuals whose development is so nearly com- 

 plete that they must have been within a very brief period indeed of birth; 

 short therefore of actual witness of parturition he thought the evidence 

 adduced was conclusive. 



2. Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft. 



Der Gesellschaft sind neuerdings beigetreten die Herren 



Dr. Fr. H e i n e k e , Oldenburg. 

 Dr. C. Matzdorff, Berlin. 

 Dr. Sa mas sa, Heidelberg. 

 Dr. J. Thiele, Dresden. 



Seinen Austritt hat Herr E. Hartert, Marburg (z. Z. London), 



angezeigt. 



III. Personal -Notizen. 



Clark University, Worcester, Mass., Oct. 5, 1891. Dr. G. Baur ist von 

 seiner Reise nach den Galapagos- Inseln urückgekehrt. 



Necrolog. 



Am 21. Oct. endete Philip Herbert Carpenter in Eton College sein 

 Leben. Er stand im 40. Lebensjahre, war der vierte Sohn des bekannten 

 l'ln siologen W. B. Carpenter und war seit 1877 als »science master« am 

 Eton College angestellt. Seine Thätigkeit war hauptsächlich den Echino- 

 dermen gewidmet, besonders den Crinoiden. 



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