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approaching the primitive Micropterygidae; and the Lyonetiadae and Graci- 
lariadae to be offshoots from some of the more degenerate forms of the Zi- 
neidae. The family, though less numerous than some others, is still a large 
one, and seems to be pretty evenly distributed throughout the world. About 
150 new species are described. — 4) Descriptions of some new Species of 
Araneidae from New South Wales. By W. J. Rainbow. A new species of 
Stephanopis (fam. Thomisidae) proposed to be called S. aspera, from Bungen- 
dore, and the male of Cyclotonus abyssinus, Urq. (fam. Zyeosidae), previously 
-unknown, from the Jenolan Caves, are described; and attention is called to 
the presence of slight irregularities or want of uniformity in coloration of 
otherwise typical specimens of the other sex. — 5) Revision of the Amaryg- 
mides of Australia. Part I. The Genus CAalcopterus. By Rev. T. Blackburn, 
B.A., Corr. Mem. In respect of number, both of species and of individuals, 
this subfamily of the Tenebrionidae occupies a conspicuous place among 
Australian Coleoptera; and, from the beauty, brilliant colour, and large size 
of many of the species, has long attracted the notice of collectors and stu- 
dents; yet there is probably scarcely a group of genera in the whole of the 
Australian Coleoptera in which the proportion of named species is smaller; 
there are, indeed, many names connected with descriptions, but by them it 
is impossible in many cases to identify the insects on which they were 
founded, so many of the old descriptions being of the briefest possible 
character. A revision of the group by a resident entomologist, therefore, has 
been a desideratum. — 6) and 7) Botanical. — 8) Synonymic and Bibliogra- 
phical Catalogue of the New Zealand Land and Freshwater Mollusca. By H. 
Suter. (Communicated, with an introduction, by C. Hedley, F.L.S.) In 
1880 Professor Hutton enumerated in his »Manual of the New Zealand 
Mollusca« 125 species of land, fresh, and brackish water molluscs. Since 
then zoology has made such rapid strides that this fauna is raised in the 
present communication to a total of 178 species, divided by the author into 
45 genera. The land mollusca embrace 142 species, of which 15 are oper- 
culate; the fluviatile shells are reckoned at 32, 12 being bivalves and 7 oper- 
culate univalves. This large addition of one-third to the list of twelve years 
ago is not the greatest advantage the present catalogue has over its prede- 
cessor; numerous species are now removel which, by the negligence of 
collectors or the errors of European authors, were formerly included among 
the shells of New Zealand. The attention bestowed during the last decade 
upon the anatomy of the New Zealand snails has furnished data for a more 
natural classification, while the increase of colonial libraries has facilitated 
the quotation of fuller references than were previously available. 
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