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37. Straßburg^i. Els. 



Kaiser Wilhelms-Universität. 



Zoologisches Institut und Sammlung (vereinigte zoologische J 

 Sammlungen der Universität und der Stadt Straßburg). " 



Direktor: Prof. Dr. Alexander Go ette. 

 Konservator der Sammlung: Prof, Dr. Ludwig Döderlein. 

 Assistent des Instituts: Privatdozent Dr. Ernst Breßlau. 

 Entomolog an der Sammlung: Arthur Speyer. 

 Assistent an der Sammlung: vakat. 

 Präparatoren: Emil Nöldner, Adalbert Preuschen, 

 Außerdem: Privatdozent Dr. Karl Escherich. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



September 30th, 1903. — Zoology. — Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited 

 Gempylodestmetus OllifF, a rare and curious beetle of tbe Family ColycUiclae 

 (type from Lord Howe Island, in Australian Museum), found at Otford 

 (Illawarra) , apparently parasitic on a wood-boring weevil (Subfam. Cosso- 

 mdes)j to which Colydium sp. (?), also exhibited, is attached. Also a speci- 

 men of a small beetle from Otford, very closely resembling Phyllotreta vitiula, 

 Redt., (Fam. Halticidae)\ this is very destructive at times to crops of turnip, 

 rape, cabbage and other cruciferous plants in England, and is known, in 

 common with two or three very similar and equally destructive species, as 

 the "Turnip-flea;" in all probability it is a recent (end undesirable) importa- 

 tion. — Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of parasites and hyperparasites 

 of the Brown Olive Scale (iecamMW oleae) bred from parasitised specimens of 

 the latter, recently received from Mr. C. P. Lounsbury, Entomologist, 

 Cape Town. The true parasite, Scutellista cyanea^ Motsch., has been found 

 to be a very valuable aid in destroying this destructive pest in Ceylon, Italy 

 and South Africa, but it again has many parasites which devour its larvae, 

 among them several members of the parasitic wasps Tetrastichus. He also 

 showed some small flies and a Psocid among the specimens collected from 

 contents of the package. — Mr. Jensen showed under the microscope 

 1) sections of a specimen of coal from Newcastle, N.S.W., given to the 

 exhibitor by Mr. S. R. Mort, the Sections proving the matrix to consist 

 almost entirely of sporangia and spores; and 2] slides of Foraminifera and 

 glauconite granules from the Palaezoic Formation of Jutland, Denmark. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Herr Dr. E. Teiclimaiiii ist von Marburg nach Frankfurt überge- 

 siedelt und bittet zu adressieren: 



Frankfurt a. M. 



Tannenstraße 7 IL 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



