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31. Marburg. 



Zoologisches Institut. 

 Direktor: Prof. Dr. Eugen Korschelt. 

 Assistenten: Dr. Karl Tonni ges, 



Dr. Johannes Meisenheimer, Privaldozent. 

 Konservator: Friedrich Wagner. 



Außerdem: Prof. Dr. August Brauer, 

 Dr. Ernst Teichmann. 



Der Herausgeber richtet an die Herren Fachgenossen 

 die Bitte, ihm etwaige Ergänzungen der Personalverzeich- 

 nisse oder eingetretene Veränderungen freundlichst bald 

 mitteilen zu wollen. E. Korschelt. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



August 26tb, 1903. — 1) Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XII. 

 New Carabidae (Panageini, Bembidiini, Platysmatini, Platynini, Lebiini; 

 with. Revisionai Lists of Genera and Species, some Notes on Synonymy, 

 &c.). By Thomas G. Sloane. — 2) Revision of the Australian Curculionidae 

 belonging to the Subfamily Ciyptorhynchides. Part VI. By Arthur M. Lea, 

 F.E.S. — Mr. G. A. Waterhouse exhibited specimens of Hypocysta metirius^ 

 Butler ((j^), and H. pseudirius, Butler (cf ), which had been compared by Mr. 

 H. H. Dru ce with the types in the British Museum; both these belong to 

 the H. irius group. H. antìrius, Butler, which has been variously used for 

 both the species exhibited, Mr. Dru ce says is allied to H. adiante^ Hübner, 

 of which H. imdulaia, Butler, is, at best, a variety. H. epiriuSj Butler, is 

 allied to, if not identical with H, pseudirius. — Mr. H. J, Carter exhibited 

 some entomological novelties, including representatives of an undescribed 

 species of Lemidia (Fam. Cleridae]^ and of Eg estri a [1^'àxa, Pedilidae)\ likewise 

 a variety of Prostomis cornutus (Fam. Cucu/idae) hitherto recorded only from 

 Tasmania. Also a specimen of Scaraphites macleayi^ Westw., (Fam. Cara- 

 bidae), found at Darling Point, Sydney, not far from the locality of the type 

 specimen (Mr. W. Sharpe Macleay's garden at Elizabeth Bay, on a portion 

 of which the Society's Hall now stands): this very local form is probably 

 doomed to early extinction in consequence of suburban developments. Mr. 

 Carter also showed a "vegetable caterpillar" forwarded to him by Mr, J. 

 Q. Wood with the information that it was alleged to have been found in a 

 gold mine at Peak Hill, embedded in quartz, at a depth of 150 feet. — Mr. 

 Fletcher showed a copy of "Voyages de Corneille le Bruyn par la Moscovie, 

 en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales" (1725), the original edition of which in 

 Dutch was published in 1714 — a work of interest because of the description 

 and illustration of the Filander, or Aru Island Wallaby [Alacropus brunii^ 

 Schreb.), seen by the author in captivity at Batavia in the year 1706. The 

 figure is still the earliest known of any Australian type of Marsupial. But 

 the Filander has had to give place to the little wallaby of Houtraan's Abrol- 



