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behandelt werden und zur Ubung der modernen parasitologischen 
Untersuchungsmethoden und zur Anfertigung von Dauerpräparaten 
dienen. Baldige Meldung erwiinscht. Weitere Auskunft erteilt der 
Abteilungsleiter 
Prof. Dr. v. Wasielewski. 
3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 
Abstract of Proceedings. November 26th, 1913. — Mr. D. G. Stead 
showed examples of a frog, Crinia signifera, common on the Kosciusko Table- 
land, even at the highest elevations, near water. — Mr. Froggatt exhibited 
cotypes of eight species of Cicadidae, part of a collection made by Mr. H. 
Brown, at Cue, N. W. Australia, and recently described by Mr. W. L. Dis- 
tant; also a cotype of another species, from Cooma, N.S.W. M. Froggatt 
showed also, a number of small Chalcid wasps, parasitic upon the maggots 
and pupae of the Sheep Maggot-Fly (Calliphora rufifaces). — Mr. Bassett 
Hull exhibited the nest and eggs of the Lord Howe Island “Rainbird’’ 
(Pseudogerygone insularis Ramsay). The nest is similar to those of the Aus- 
tralian members of the genus, but the “tail” is very short, in fact almost 
rudimentary. The eggs, three in number, resemble closely those of P. fusca 
Gould, the shell being white, slightly glossy, covered with dull pink spots 
or freckles, forming a cap at the larger end. A set of three eggs of the Lord 
Howe Island Crow-Shrike (Strepera crissalis Sharpe), a variety of the main- 
land species, S. graculina White, was also exhibited. — Mr. G. A. Water- 
house exhibited a fine series of butterflies, representing the five subspecies 
of Tisiphone abeona Don. The Victorian race, and the New South Wales 
race occurring south of the Hunter River, are almost alike, differing only in 
the breadth of their markings, and in their colouration. The individual 
variation, in specimens of either of these races, is very slight. In Northern 
New South Wales and South Queensland occur two other races, very dif- 
ferent from the typical form, differing from one another only in degree, and 
also showing slight individual variation. At Port Macquarie, a fifth race oc- 
curs; this exhibits remarkable variation. Specimens caught during October, 
1913, showed every gradation between the Northern New South Wales race, 
and that occurring in the south. The transition from one race to the other, 
is not a gradual one, for the characters of either race may be combined, in 
every possible way, in individual specimens. It is suggested that Tisiphone 
originally was confined to the Main Dividing Range, and became differen- 
tiated into two distinct forms concomitantly with the changes which gave 
rise to the low drier area through which the Hunter River flows. Subse- 
quently, the species were able to reach the coast, and, at Port Macquarie, we 
have the result of the refusion. — Mr. Waterhouse also exhibited two 
historically interesting examples of butterflies caught in the Eastern Archi- 
pelago, by the late Alfred Russell Wallace. — By sanction of the Curator 
of the Australian Museum, Mr. North sent for exhibition the eggs of seven 
species of birds collected by the late Dr. P. H. Metcalfe on Fanning Is- 
land, North Pacific, during 1912-13 — Tatare pistor, Sula sula, S. piscatrix, 
Phaëthon lepturus, Anous stolidus, Micranous leucocapillus, and Gygis candida. 
The eggs of Tatare pistor, three in number fora sitting, were taken on the 
