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amount of white on the breast. When fully adult, specimens from all of 
these States, are absolutely indistinguishable from one another, in colour and 
measurements. As pointed out by Mr. North in the Transactions of the 
Royal Society of South Australia (1898, xxii., p. 157), Lophophaps leuco- 
gaster, described by Gould from South Australia, is a synonym of L. plumi- 
fera. He also exhibited a skin of a Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelli- 
formis Latham) presented by Mr. W. Whiting, of Lord Howe Island, the 
bird having been caught alive in that locality in an exhausted state, after a 
heavy prolonged westerly blow in May, 1911. — 4) On the Affinities of 
Caenolestes [Marsupialia|. By R. Broom, M.D., C.M.Z.S., Corresponding 
Member. — Thomas regarded this remarkable South American form, as 
clearly a Diprotodont, not closely allied to any of the living forms, but more 
nearly related to the existing marsupials of Australia than to those of America. 
Miss Dederer, Gregory, and Sinclair, while agreeing that Caenolestes 
should not be placed in the Diprotodontia, prefer to relegate it to a distinct 
suborder, the Paucituberculata. After reviewing the evidence, the author 
concludes that, as Caenolestes differs from the typical Polyprotodonts only in 
tooth-specialisation, it should not be removed from the Polyprotodontia, but 
merely be made the type of a distinct family, or section at most. — 5) On a Col- 
lection of Parasitic Hymenoptera (chiefly bred) made by Mr. W. W. Frog- 
gatt, F.L.S., in New South Wales, with Descriptions of new Genera and 
Species. Part i. By P. Cameron. (Communicated by W. W. Froggatt.) 
— Seventeen species, referable to the families Chalcididae, Braconidae, 
Evaniidae, and Ichneumonidae, are described as new. 
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Zoologie. 
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