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Additions to the Insect-fauna of South Australia will be 

 found recorded in the following papers : — 



a. Xeiv Speiies of Saw-flies. By W. W. Froggatt, Proc. Lin. 

 Soc, KS.W., Sept., 1890. 



h. New Species of South Australian Coleoptera. By T, Black- 

 burn, Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W. ; Feb., June, and Sept., 1890. 



c. Revision of the Genus Ileteronyx. By T. Blackburn, op cit, 



Feb. and April, 1890. 



d. New Species of Diptera (ISTematocera). By F. A. A. Skuse, 



Proc. Lin. Soc, KS.W., Sept., 1890. 



e. Revision of the Aiistyrdian Lepidoptera (Hepialid^e and Mono- 



cteniadEe). By E. Meyrick, Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W., April, 

 1890. 

 /. New Carabidce. By T. G. Sloane, Proc. Lin. Soc, iST.S.W., 

 April, 1890. 



Older Tertiary Gastropods of Australia. 



Parts I. and II. of the above, by Prof. Tate, in Trans, of this 

 Society, vols. X. and XL, are reviewed by M. Cossmann in 

 '' LAnnuaire Geologique Universel," vol. Y., 1889, pp. 1088-1091. 



The reviewer remarks that the fauna has an incontestable 

 analogy with that of the Paris Basin, and advises more frequent 

 comparisons with the European species and with those of the 

 Alabama basin ; and adds that if the Australian fauna does not 

 contain species in common with these, yet it occupies at least a 

 sort of middle place between them which are so widely separated 

 geographically. M. Cossmann's criticisms on the affinities of 

 some species to those of the Paris basin and on their generic 

 location having a high value, are here repeated : — 



Typhis laciniatus is comparable with T. tuhifer, Sow., though 

 the varices are more festooned. Murex rhysus has some analogy 

 with M. bispinosus, Sow. ; and M, calvus has a slight resemblance 

 to M. tricarinatus, Lamk. Murex (Chicoreus) Ramiltonensis 

 and M. irregidaris having an absolutely different ornamentation 

 cannot belong to the same group. Murex (Phyllonotus) Eyrei 

 and M. sublcevis much resemble the Parisian Muricidea, notably 

 to M. Steu7^i, Cossman. In Ocinebra are some Muricidea, as 

 M. biconicus, which has some analogy with M. Bernayi, Desh., 

 or some Muricojjsis as M. alveolatus and M. crassliratus, which 

 resemble M. Auversiensis, Cossmann. Of Trophon, only T. icosi- 

 phyllus makes an approach to the characters of the genus, the 

 others appear to belong to Muricidea or Muricopsis. Of the 

 Tritons, the first 15 (except T. ovoideus, wliich resembles our 

 Simjndum planicostatum) are of very typical species and very 

 distinct from those of the Paris basin. Epidromus tenuicostatus 



