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zu der von mir begründeten Ordnung der Gressores gehörende, an 
Ibisse und Störche sich anschließende Familie. Die Gründe für diese 
Anschauung finden sich dargelegt in meiner systematischen Übersicht 
der Schreitvögel (Journ. f. Ornith. 1877. p. 140). Daß ich daselbst, 
gerade im Gegensatz zu der mir zugeschobenen Ansicht, die »langen 
Beine« als Abweichung von dem Schreitvogel-Character und Annähe- 
rung an die Entenvögel bezeichnet habe, wird Herrn Dr. Schulze 
unverständlich sein; Belehrung darüber bieten ihm meine Unter- 
suchungen über die Fußbildungen der Vögel (Journ. f. Ornith. 1871). 
Berlin, den 18. Februar 1893. 
II. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 
1. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 
December 28th, 1892. — 1) Observations on the Myology of Palinurus 
Edwardsu, Hutton. By Professor T. Jeffery Parker, D.Sc., F.R.S., and 
Josephine Gordon Rich. (From the Biological Laboratory of the University 
of Otago.) (Communicated by Professor Haswell.) The sea-crayfish of New 
Zealand (P. Edwardsü) and its Australian ally (P. HZügelii) form such con- 
venient students’ types that it is extremely desirable to have a readily acces- 
sible account of their anatomy, since the ordinary text-books deal almost 
exclusively with the Astacidae, or with the European form P. vulgaris, which 
differs in many respects from the species under consideration. One interest- 
ing result of the authors’ observations is to show the incorrectness of the 
commonly received opinion that the whole of the great ventral mass of ab- 
dominal muscles consists of flexors. Another point of considerable morpho- 
logical interest is the discovery of certain vestigial muscles connected with 
the fused and immovable coxopodites of the antennae. — 2) On Parma- 
cochlea Fischeri, Smith. By C. Hedley, F.L.S. No information relating to 
this species has appeared since the description of the original specimen 
collected by the »Challenger« Expedition. By the courtesy of the Trustees 
of the Macleay Museum the author has been able to examine the anatomy 
of this rare and interesting species, whose structure conforms more to that 
of Helicarion than to any known genus. — 3) Descriptions of Australian 
Micro-Lepidoptera. XVI. Tineidae. By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.Z.S. The 
investigations made by the author in the preparation of this paper have led 
him to extend the limits of the family Tineidae beyond those originally contem- 
plated and elsewhere made use of, thus including within it the smooth-faced 
genera previously separated as the Argyresthiadae, those with up-turned apex 
of forewings, for which the family Ereethiadae was instituted, and the rough- 
headed genera with antennal eyecaps formerly classed as Lyonetiadae, a term 
which should now be restricted to the smooth-headed genera with antennal 
eyecaps. As now defined, the family includes nearly all the rough-headed 
Tineina; from which the JIMicropterygidae, the Nepticulidae, which are also 
rough-headed, and the Gracilariadae, which are normally smooth-headed, 
but some genera of which have rough heads, may be distinguished either 
by the characters of the neuration or of the larvae. The author considers the 
Tineidae to have been developed from an early form of the Plutellidae closely 
