392 Miscellaneous. 



of Australia. The next is the Eiironotian. Probably this reached 

 Tasmania from South America not later than the Miocene epoch ; 

 many of the original inhabitants, particularly on the east coast, 

 probably disappeared before the invaders. Thirdly, a contiugent of 

 Papuan forms seized on the Queensland coast late in the Tertiary, 

 and likewise largely exterminated their predecessors. — From an 

 advance proof of unpublished vol. from the writer, having been read 

 at the Adelaide Meeting of the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, held September 1893. 



Note on d Species of Eubolina six times described by Walker. 

 By A. G. BiriLER, Ph.D. &c. 



In his ' Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heteroeera,' vol. xv. p. 1688, 

 Walker described a small moth from Venezuela under the name of 

 Celcena dijfundens. 



The genus Celcena belongs to the first group of Noctuse distin- 

 guished by the trifid character of the median branches of the second- 

 aries ; but C. diffandens clearly belongs to the quadrifid group, in 

 which the radial vein is given off close to the third median branch. 



In volume xxxiii. of his Catalogue Walker described the same 

 species as Ilomoptera excavata, from St, Domingo, at page 879 ; as 

 H. tninuscula, from St. Domingo, and U. scitior, from Honduras, at 

 p. 880 ; as H. perpusilla, from Honduras, at p. 881. 



Lastly, in volume xxxiv. ho again described the same species as 

 Pgralis? noctualis, from Venezuela, at p. 1231, 



This kind of work needs no comment — it sufficiently condemns 

 itself; but it is important that the facts should be recorded. The 

 following, then, will be the synonymy : — 



Eubolina diffundens. 



Celcena diffundens, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1688. 

 Ilomoptera excavata, Walkei", I. c, xxxiii. p. 879. 

 Ilomoptera minuscula, Walker, /. c. p. 880. 

 Homojitera scitior, Walker, I. c. 

 Homoptera jyerpusilla, Walker, I. c. p. 881. 

 Pyralis ? noctualis, Walker, I. c. xxxiv. p. 12-31. 



Venezuela, Honduras, and St. Domingo. 



Description of a new Australian Snake. By J. Douglas Ogilbt. 



The habitat of the new species {Hopilocephalus Waitii), which 

 differs mainly from IT. pallidiceps, Giinth., in having 21 series of 

 scales round the body instead of only 15, appears to be the central 

 district of jS!"ew South Wales, whereas R. pallidiceps is a North 

 Queensland form. — From the Abstract of Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales, May 30, 1894, p. ii. 



