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creatic juice may be activated by leucocytes so that it acts upon proteids. — 

 Mr. C. Hedley exhibited, on behalf of Mr. W. F. Petterd, a collection of 

 deep-sea mollusca, corals, and holothuria. These were dredged at a depth 

 of 300 fathoms, at a point 28 miles east of Sydney Heads, and included new 

 species o{ Coralliop Mia , Trophon^ Cymatium^ Columbarium^ Cuspidaria^ etc., 

 and an Elasipod Holothurian indentified by Mr. T. Whitelegge as Pan- 

 nychia moseleyi. — Mr. North exhibited a specimen of Grass-Finch, from the 

 Northern Territory of South Australia, which he had separated from Poe- 

 phila acuticauda Gould, under the name of Poephila aurantiirostris^ . Some 

 time ago he had found that it had been previously described by Dr. O. Hein- 

 roth^ from living examples in the Berlin Zoological Gardens, under the 

 name of Poephila hechi^ but this was the first opportunity he had had of 

 bringing it under the notice of Members of the Society. P. aurantiirostris 

 North, thus becomes a synonym of Poephila fiecki Heinroth. The part of 

 Australia from which the birds were procured was not known to Dr. Hein- 

 roth. The present specimen, Mr. North was informed by Mr. Percy Peir, 

 was caught with others, also Masked Grass-Finches {Poephila pefS07iata Gonld) 

 a few miles from Burrundie, Port Darwin District. Mr. North had seen 

 many living examples from the same district, also from the neighbourhood 

 of Wyndham, North-western Australia. 



Abstract of Proceedings, April 26th, 1905. — The following papers 

 were read: — 1) Revisionai Notes on Australian C arabida e. Part II. 

 Tribe VI. Scaritini. By Thomas G. Sloane. The Tribe Scaritini, as here 

 limited, contains numerous and highly specialised genera; and occurs in all 

 the large land areas of the globe. It is the most important Tribe of the Cara- 

 bi da e found in Australia, and as there represented it may be subdivided 

 into two Subtribes, the Scaritides and the Pasimachides. The first of these 

 takes in the genera Steganomma and Geoscaptus. The second comprises the 

 genera Scaraphites^ Euryscaphus^ Philoscaphus^ Laccoscaphus (replacing Lac- 

 copterum)y Carenum^ Trichocarenum^ Carenidium^ Carenarckiis (replacing Epi- 

 lectus)^ and Teratidium. Critical observations and tabular lists are off*ered: 

 and six species are described as new. — Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens 

 of Oliyoioma gw7ieyi Froggatt (Fam. Embiidae), together with one of the 

 webs which they fabricate, received from Mr. Thomas Steel; the species was 

 described in last year's Proceedings from the study of a single individual 

 taken at light; since that time the insects had been found in great numbers 

 in the Colonial Sugar Company's Refinery at Pyrmont, the presence of the 

 webs giving the walls the appearance of being coated with mould. Also 

 pupae of one of the common Sydney bulldog ants [Myrmecia pyriformis Sm.), 

 cut out of the pupal cocoons; and exhibited to show the curious spiny struc- 

 tures present on the body, but which are absent in the imago. 



1 Proc. Linn. See. N.S.W. Vol. XXVII. p. 207 /1902 . 



2 Ornitholog. Monatsb. Jahr. VIII. p. 22 1900). 



