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runnel joining the MuUum Mulluui Creek, Ringwoo J, near 

 ]\1 el bourne. 



Remark'!. — It 13 remarkably active ; usual form of loco- 

 motion running, but can spring forcibly forwards and alio 

 swim easily. It shuns strong light. 



References. 



G. M. TuoMSON. — " Description of a Remarkable Schizopod." Trans. 



Linn. Soc, Zool. (2) vi. 3. 

 W. T. Calm AN. — "On the Genus Atiaspides." Trans. Roy. Soc. 



Edinburgh, xxxviii. pt. iv. 



[ISfofe. — By the kindness of ^Ir. Sayce, the British Museum 

 has now received specimens of the very remarkable crustacean 

 described above. From an examination of these I am able 

 to bear witness to the accuracy, in all essential points, of his 

 description. I believe, however, that the difference from 

 Anasjoides in the fl.'xure of the thoracic legs will prove to be 

 more apparent than real, and I do not think that the altera- 

 tions now necessary in the diagnosis of the Syncarida in any 

 way impair the status of that group as a natural division of 

 the Malacostraca. A discussion of these and similar points 

 must, however, be deferred until the appearance of Mr. Sayce'a 

 promised memoir. — W. T. (Jalman.] 



LVIII. — On some New and Curious Thyscvwptera (Tubu- 

 lif era) from Papua. By RiCHARD S. Bagnall^ F.E.S. 



[Plates XIV. & XV.] 



The present small contribution to our knowledge of the 

 world's Tliysanoptera is based upon four specimens collected 

 at Dorey, Papua (New Guinea), by Dr. A. R. Wallace, 

 F.R.S., which were presented by him to the late Mr. W. 

 Wilson Saunders, and are now in the British Museum *, 

 Unfortunately only one specimen of each species exists, 

 and as they are gummed on cards the descriptions are of 

 necessity incomplete. Dr. Wallace is under the impression 

 that he took these creatures from under bark. 



A[Kirt from the general interest attaclied to insects so 



* I have withheld the description of a fifth species, which is not in 

 very good condition. 



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