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the name of C. lilianum. Some hitherto unfigured Victorian land shells are 

 also illustrated. Finally, the species of Triforis dwelling on the coast of 

 N. S. Wales are reviewed, the total being raised from four to fourteen, in- 

 cluding nine new species. — 2) Notes on Prosobranchiata. No. II. Littori- 

 nacea. By H. Leighton Kesteven. While studying the affinities of Fossa- 

 rina and Risellopsis, the writer found that Risella differed in important 

 anatomical characters from Littorina, the type genus of the family to which, 

 in the past, it bad been assigned. As a result of studying Risella, Littorina, 

 and Tectarius and comparing their anatomy with that of other Taenioglossa 1 

 he has found it advisable to reclassify the littorine groups thereof. Taking as 

 a base Fischer's classification, the following amendments are suggested: — 



Superfamily Littorinacea. 



Family Littorinidae. 



Containing those genera enumerated hereunder by Fischer except 

 Rissella, Echinella, and Fossarina, the last of wich, in a recent paper, has 

 been shown to be a Trochid. 



Family Risellidae. 

 Genera Risella Gray; Risellopsis Kesteven. 



Family Modulidae. 

 Genera Modulus Gray; Echinella Swainson; Peasiella Nevill. 



Family Nassopsidae. 

 Genus Nassopsis Smith. 



A great part of the paper is devoted to a detailed account of the ana- 

 tomy of Risella. — 3) Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part II. 

 By G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S. One species of Pseudonotis, 

 and two of Philiris, are described as new. Some observations on specimens 

 of Philiris ilias, Feld., from Cape York, are offered; Felder' s type of the 

 species came from Amboina. — 4) Ethnological. — 5) On the Occurrence 

 of Monograplus in New South Wales. By T. S. Hall, M.A. (Communicated 

 by John Mitchell.) The occurrence of Graptolites in the Silurian rocks of 

 Bowning and Yass has already been recorded by Mr. John Mitchell in the 

 Society's Proceedings (1886, p. 57 7; 1880, p. 150). A careful study of the 

 specimens on which these records were based shows that they are undoubted 

 examples of Monograptus. The imperfection of the specimens in the sicular 

 region prevents absolute identification, but as far as can be made out they 

 apparently belong to the group typified by M. duhius, which ranges through 

 almost the whole of the Lower Ludlow and Wenlock in Britain. — 6] Bo- 

 tanical. — Mr. Froggatt showed specimens of a lamellicorn beetle, Pento- 

 don australis Blackb., from Sackville Beach, Hawkesbury River, where the 

 species of late has done much damage to maize seed in the ground, as well 

 as to the young corn; under ordinary circumstances the insect frequents the 

 bull grass (Paspalum) of the flats, and in the absence of floods has become 

 a pest to the farmer. He also showed examples of another beetle of the 

 same family, Chiroplatys sp., which has taken to devouring potatoes and 

 tomatoes in the Windsor and Richmond districts. — Mr. Hedley exhibited 



