760 



from Ardea novae-hollandiae. Length 3,5 mm. Clinging plug a flat lamella 

 with a simple fold into two leaves. Vitelline glands extending into anterior 

 body-region, plug, and to posterior end of body*, testes lobulated. Holosto- 

 mum musculosum , from Sterna hergii. Length 1 1 mm. Clinging plug very 

 complex, with a projecting fimbriated process: ventral sucker completely 

 sunk in the tissues of the body, communicating with the exterior by a small 

 thin-walled canal : a number of strong bands of longitudinal muscle present 

 in posterior body-region. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens of, and contributed a Note on, the 

 larvae of five handsome and characteristic members of the family Carabidae, 

 namely — Calosoma Schayeri^ Erich., Pamborus viridis, Gory, Catadromus 

 Laeordairei, Boisd., Casfelnaudia imperialis, and a species at present undeter- 

 mined. 



Mr. Stead exhibited a specimen of Octopus pictus with a batch of newly 

 deposited eggs. Also a portion of a fish preserved in 1^li% of formalin, 

 the slightly exposed surface of which was covered with a luxuriant growth 

 of mould. Dr. R. Greig Smith, Dr. Chapman and the Chairman men- 

 tioned still more surprising instances of the growth of fungi in, or upon 

 substances wholly or partially immersed in, antiseptic solutions, which had 

 come under actual observation. 



Mr. Steel exhibited a specimen of the common Pine Case-moth, 

 Thyridopteryx Hubneri, in which two cases are firmly woven together for 

 about one-third of their length, the attachment commencing close to the neek. 

 Mr. North sent for exhibition a specimen of Munia flaviprymna, Gould, 

 from the Australian Museum Reference Collection. The Trustees also 

 possess a living example of this, the rarest of all Australian Finches. It 

 was captured with a flock of Donacicola castaneothorax , Gould, in the Nor- 

 thern Territory of South Australia, in December, 1903. A skin was also 

 exhibited of PoepÂe7a atropygialis (Diggles), Cast ein au and Ramsay^, from 

 the Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria. Poephila niyrotecta, Hartert^^ is a 

 synonym of this species. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Herr Professor Karl Kabl in Prag ist als Professor der Anatomie 

 und Nachfolger von Wilhelm His an die Universität Leipzig berufen 

 worden. 



Die an der Tierärztlichen Hochschule in München neu gegrün- | 

 dete ordentliche Professur für Zoologie und Biologie ist Herrn Pro- ' 

 fessor B. Hofer übertragen worden. 



1 P.L.S.N.S.W., Vol. L, p. 382 (1877). 



2 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Ibis, 1899, p. 647. 



Druck von Breitkopf Ss Härtel in Leipzig. 



