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II. Mittheilungen ans Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



April 29th, 1903. — The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society 

 was held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday 

 evening, April 29th. 1903. — 1) Australian Fungi, new or unrecorded. 

 Decades III. — IV. ByD.Mc Alp ine, Corresponding Member. — Of the Fungi 

 here recorded fifteen are described as new species, fourteen genera being 

 represented. The Orchids, which are generally comparatively free from fungi, 

 contribute two, one of the genera (Amerosporium) being new to Australia. 

 The imported Cape weed (Cryptostemma), although so common and wides- 

 pread, is also particulary clean, but two new species have been found upon 

 it. The Kangaroo Grass [Anthistira) has likewise yielded two which are new; 

 and it is interesting to find parasitic fungi upon such native parasitic flo- 

 wering plants as Cassytha and Loranthus. The laef-curl of the Peach is only 

 too well known in Australia, but the Pearf-leaf Blister due to Exoaseus bul- 

 latus is now racorded for the first time, and care should be taken to prevent 

 its spread. — 2) Notes on Australian Rhopalocera\ Lycaenidae. Part III. By 

 G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F. E. S. — This part deals fully with the 

 descriptive portion of the subject and with the nomenclature. The number 

 of species recognised as Australian is 114, of which 107 have been already 

 described, five are described as new, and Neopithecops zalmora, Butl., and 

 Eupsychellus dionisius, Boisd., both from Darnley Island, are recorded within 

 Australian limits for the first time. Licaenae (?) hypoleuca, Prittw., is elimi- 

 nated, as the description does not appear to apply to any Australian species. 

 Zerites thyra, Linn., a South African species, of which two specimens were 

 once taken at Newcastle, is regarded as an accidental importation. The ge- 

 nera are brought into line with those in use among the Indian entomologists, 

 the work being based on the late Mr. L. de Nicéville's 'Lycaenidae of India, 

 Burmah and Ceylon'. The material upon which these notes are based, com- 

 prises over four thousand specimens, contained in the principal Australian 

 Collections, and in addition the rarer species from collections aggregating 

 another thousand specimens have been availed of. — Mr. Froggatt exhi- 

 bited specimens of, and communicated a Note, on several species of grass- 

 hoppers (Fam. Stenopelmatidae) collected in the Bendithere Caves by Mr. Mur- 

 ray, of Moruya. The insects are remarkable for their very long legs and 

 antennae, and for the absence of ears. They live in the darkest recesses of 

 the caves, and jump about when disturbed. They are allied to the genera 

 Dolichopoda, Macropathus , &c, the species of which are found in similar 

 situations in Austria, New Zealand or Kentucky, U.S.A.; but, it is believed, 

 this is the first record of such cave-inhabitating Australian Orthoptera. — 

 Mr. Froggatt also showed specimens of two Australian members of the 

 Acrididae, which have a very wide range, namely: 1) Oedaleus marmoratus, 

 Thunb. (Locusta danica, Linn.), also well known under the name of Oedi- 

 poda musica, Serv., found likewise in the South of France, India, Ceylon, 

 Africa, Madagascar, some of the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Java Su- 

 matra, and the Philippines; 2) Oedaleus senegalensis, described from Sene- 

 gal, Africa, by Krauss ; and recorded by Saussure from Ternata and Australia. 



