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fish, Osphromenus irichoj^terus (Pallas) — a species of Gourami, of which a 

 large number had recently been privately introduced to the State — was also 

 exhibited. — Mr. Till yard exhibited the cast skin of a dragonfly, He^nicor- 

 dulia australiae, on the back of which was a second cast skin of the smaller 

 Isosticta simplex. Evidently the larger dragonfly had just emerged, and the 

 smaller larva had afterwards climbed the same stem and affixed itself to the 

 back of the other. — Mr. Froggatt showed as exhibits 1) A quantity of the 

 eggs of water-bugs, as sold in the market in Mexico City, and used for food 

 by the natives. 2) A sample of water-bugs, sold in the market and used by 

 the Mexicans to feed their caged mocking-birds. 3) ,, Dried Flies'*, really 

 water-bugs, imported from the west coast of Africa by merchants in Liver- 

 pool, England; used for feeding pheasants. 4) Specimens of the largest Lecanid 

 scale-insect known, received fromC.P.Lo unsbury , SouthAfrica, andnamed 

 by Saunders, at Washington, Lophococcus maximus] the insect looks like an 

 immense Lecanium. 5) Wingless females of an undetermined species of 

 Mutilla, which sting very sharply. This little wasp is looked on by the na- 

 tives of Cyprus as more deadly than a snake , and many deaths of shepherds 

 are attributed to the sting of this wasp, which is said to cause an eruption 

 known as ,,Sfiangi Face", which in reality is due to blood-poisoning con- 

 tracted by sleeping on the fresh skins of sheep and goats sufi'ering from 

 ,, sheep-pock." — 3) Contribution to a Knowledge of Australian Hirudinea. 

 Part II. By E. J. Goddard, B.A., B.Sc. , Linnean Macleay Fellow of the 

 Society in Zoology. — A new genus is proposed for a leech from a fresh- 

 water pool at Oberon, N.S.W. It is most closely allied to Dina and Herpo- 

 bdella in which the abbreviated somites include I. — V., and I. — IV. respec- 

 tively, at the anterior extremity, and XXIV. — XXVI., and XXIII. — XXVI. 

 respectively at the posterior extremity; whereas in the form now described 

 the first unabbreviated segment is V., with XXIV. — XXVI. of the posterior 

 extremity abbreviated. The presence of a peculiar outgrowth from the oeso- 

 phagus, or the base of the pharynx, simulating a rudimentary proboscis, but 

 in reality not such, is remarkable. — 4) Contribution to a Knowledge of 

 Australian Oligochaeta. Partii. By E. J. Goddard, B.A., B.Sc, Linnean 

 Macleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology. — Another Phreodrilid worm, 

 from pools on the Mt. Wellington plateau, Tasmanian, is described. It is of 

 interest because its Tasmanian habitat completes the circuit of distribution 

 of the Family — from South America to New South Wales. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Der Präparator am Zoologischen Institut in Messina, 

 Marco Cialona, 

 der durch trefflich konserviertes und wertvolles Material die wissenschaft- 

 lichen Arbeiten gar mancher Zoologen förderte, ist der Katastrophe vom 

 28. Dez. mit Frau und 5 Töchtern entgangen. Sein Häuschen ist zer- 

 stört, und mit ihm sind Ersparnisse und Instrumente verloren. Er hat sich 

 in bitterer Not nach Palermo, Piazza Francesco Nasce No. 14 geflüchtet. 



Fachgenossen , welche ihr Scherflein zur Linderung der Not bei- 

 tragen wollen, werden gebeten, es diesem verdienten Manne zuzuwenden. 



Carl Oh un. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



