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völlige Verbrauch der indifferenten Elemente am Gipfel 

 der Endkammer. 



Zittau, am 14. April 1886. 



III. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



24th February 1886. — 1) Description of a Coris from the New Hebri- 

 des. ByE. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E. etc., and J. Douglas-Ogilby, Esq, A 

 beautifully marked but very small species (2^3 inches in length), taken at 

 Aneiteum by Captain Braithwaite . The specific name of variegata is given to 

 it. — 2) Note on Crioceras australe, Moore. By F. Ratte, Eng. Arts and 

 Manuf., Paris. In 1870 Mr. Charles Moore described a fossil Cephalopod 

 from Maranoa, Queensland, under the name Crioceras australe. In this note 

 Mr. Ratte gives further particulars, including the shape of the septa not de- 

 scribed in Mr. Moore's paper, from the study of a more perfect specimen in 

 the Australian Museum, from Yamba, near Rockhampton. The peculiarity 

 of the septa is that they are divided into six lobes, the dorsal lobe only being 

 formed of an equal number of divisions, the other lobes being formed in 

 general of an unequal number of divisions. The, note is illustrated by two 

 plates. — 3) The Insects of the Fly River, New Guinea, »Coleoptera.« By 

 William Macleay, F.L.S., etc. A list of a portion of the Coleoptera 

 collected by Mr. Froggatt, one of the Naturalists of the Australian Geogra- 

 phical Society's late Expedition to New Guinea, is given in this paper. The 

 number of species enumerated is 117, and of these 39 are now described for 

 the first time. One new genus is described, an insect allied to Catascoptis\ 

 it is named Stricldandia after Sir Edward Strickland, K.C.B., the President 

 of the Geographical Society. Mr. Macleay makes some remarks on the sin- 

 gular poverty of the New Guinea Coleopterous Fauna in most of the families, 

 more especially the Geodephagous Beetles. The families most numerously 

 represented are the Curculionidœ, Ceramlycidœ, and Chrysomelidce . These will 

 be given in another paper. The entire collection of Coleoptera numbers 295 

 species and 914 speciemens. — 4) On a new species of Fresh Water Tor- 

 toise from the Fly River, New Guinea. By E, P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., etc. 

 The Tortoise described in this Paper, to which Mr. Ramsay gives the name 

 Cyclanosteus insculptus, on account of the remarkable sculpture on the sur- 

 faces of the plates, was obtained by the Geographical Society of N.S. W., 

 in its recent Expedition to New Guinea. The new Tortoise is a remarkable 

 one, and appears to form a link between the fresh water tortoises and the 

 sea turtles, the latter of which it represents in the form of its- fins. — Mr. 

 Brazier exhibited two new species of Helix, one from Conond Station near 

 Silverton, Mitchell District; the other from the top of slate ridges 30 miles 

 -N.E. of Silverton. He said he would describe them at the next Meeting of 

 the Society. — Mr. Haviland exhibited on behalf of the Rev. Mr. Alkin, 

 a very perfect specimen of a Sphœria parasitic on a Caterpillar. Both the 

 Caterpillar and the Fungus seemed to be difi'erent from the commonly known 

 species, the Caterpillar being longer and the Fungus much thicker and shor- 

 ter. No information was given as to habitat. — Mr. A. Sidney OUiff ex- 



