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four new allied genera are proposed. — Mr. Froggatt exhibited 1) an inter- 

 esting collection of named Australian Thysanura, populary known as Silver- 

 fishes, for whose determination he was indebted to Dr. Silvestri, of Portici. 

 The destructive species only too common in Australian houses turns out to 

 be an African alien , Lepisma longicaudata Escherich , unknown in Europe 

 and America, and now for the first time recorded from Australia. Previously 

 it had been looked upon as L. saccharina L., which has a wide range in 

 Europe and America; and Australian specimens have been erroneously re- 

 corded under this name (Journ. Roy. Microscop. Soc. 1882. p. 500). Other 

 species represented in the collection were L. producta Escherich, recorded 

 from Condoblin, N.S.W., the animals living under stones in pine scrub; the 

 representatives of three new species found in the bush under stones; examples 

 of a remarkable, somewhat shrimp-like form frequenting open caves on the 

 seashore at Terrigal, N.S.W. 2) A. named collection of Italian forms of the 

 genera Japyx^ Lejnstna and Machilis, received from Dr. Silvestri. 3) A 

 named collection of six species of Japanese Cicadas taken in the neighbour- 

 hood of Tokyo. And 4) living species of a Paussid beetle, Arthropterus dar- 

 lingensis Macl., obtained on the banks of the Darling River between Bourke 

 and Brewarrina, ÜV.S.W., during last month. — Mr. North sent for exhibi- 

 tion 1) an adult female Cuculus intermedius Vahl, a close ally of the common 

 Cuckoo, C. canorus^ of Europe; it was received by Mr. J. A. Thorpe from 

 Mr. James y ardi ey, who procured it on Dungay Creek, Tweed River, N.S.W., 

 in August 1902; a specimen was procured in 1904 by Dr. Hamilton Kenny 

 near Gympie, Queensland. There are also specimens in the Australian Mu- 

 seum from Wide Bay , Port Denison and Cairns. 2) An adult male of Pti- 

 lotis plumula^ obtained in July 1883, by the late Mr. K. H. Bennett at 

 Moolah, Western New South Wales. And 3) the following gets of eggs: 

 a. from Mr. A. E. Ivatt's collection, an e^^ of the Warty-faced Honneyeater 

 taken by him at Glanmire, near Bathurst, on the 12th November 1894, and 

 with it in the same nest an e^g of the Pallid Cuckoo : b. from Mr. Leslie W. 

 Moore's collection, an e.^g of the Fulvous-fronted Honeyeater and one of 

 the Pallied Cuckoo, taken by him in the nest of the former at Loftus, on 

 the 3rd November 1900; and three eggs of the Yellow-throated Miner and 

 one of the Pallid Cockoo, received by him from New Angledool, and taken 

 together from the same nest in September 1901. 



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