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received from Mr. Sidney W. Jackson, and collected by him near Colla- 

 renebri, N.S.W., and on tbe Blackall Range, Queensland. — - 1) The Plank- 

 ton of the Sydney Water-Supply. By G. I. Playfair. — The Sydney Wa- 

 ter-Supply is the water of the Neppan and Cataract Rivers, which is impounded 

 in the Cataract Reservoir, and thence brought down, by many miles of 

 canal, through the Prospect Reservoir to Guildford and Pott's Hill, where 

 it is filtered by being passed through a double series of wire screens. These 

 screens being periodically raised and washed with a hose, the effluent from this 

 operation has been the principal source of the material studied. The flora com- 

 prised: Chlorophyceae generally, 60; Desmidiaceae, 112, Myxophy- 

 ceae, 19; Bacillariaceae,48;Phythelieae, 16 (the numbers indicating 

 species and well-marked variations). The fauna yielded: Peridinieae, 13: 

 Infusoria, 35; Rotatoria, 14; Rhizopoda, 13; Vermes, 3; and Ento- 

 mostraca, 3. Almost all are quite well known European forms, such, too, as 

 are common in the waters round Sydney, and in other parts of New South 

 Wales. — 2) Descriptions and Figures of three young specimens of Sunfish (ikfo - 

 lacanthus) from the Central Pacific Ocean. By Allan R. McCulloch. — The 

 specimens described, were received by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 

 from Dr. Thomas D. Liddle, R. N. They are only 9,5 — l3mmlong; and 

 were taken from the stomach of a kingfish caught swimming near the sur- 

 face, during the passage of H.M.S. Torch between the Ellice and Union Is- 

 lands, Central Pacific, in 1911. For lack of literature, they cannot be com- 

 pared fully with the various young forms which have already been described, 

 but they differ considerably from any figures available, one of the most strik- 

 ing differences being that the position of the mouth is below the level of 

 the anal fin, whereas in the examples figured by Richardson, Günther, 

 and Ryder, it is considerably above it. — 3) Notes on Stigmodera, with 

 Descriptions of new Species, and of other Buprestidae. By H. J. Carter, 

 B.A. ,F.E.S. — Eleven species of Stigmodera are proposed as new, compris- 

 ing five from West Australia, four from Queensland, one from New South 

 Wales, and one from Victoria. Two species of Neocuris and one of Curis, 

 all from Queensland, are also described. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Dr. Achille Griffini ging mit 1. November d. J. an das R Liceo 

 »Berchêt« di Milano über. 



Dresden. 



Vom sächsischen Ministerium des Innern ist dem Privatdozenten 

 der Zoologie an der Dresdener Tierärztlichen Hochschule, Professor 

 Dr. Benno Wandolleck, ein Lehrauftrag für Biologie der Fische, Fisch- 

 zucht und Fischkrankheiten erteilt worden. Es wird zugleich ein 

 fischerei-biologisches Institut in den Käumen der Tierärztlichen Hoch- 

 schule begründet werden. 



Wien. 



An der Universität habilitierte sich Dr. E. R. Neresheiiner für 

 Zoologie. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



