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Ich habe diese Kritik der Ausstellung nur deswegen meinen obigen 

 Ausführungen angefügt, um am Objekt zu zeigen, daß die beste Wider- 

 legung gewisser Theorien ihre Ausführung ist und daß diese Ausstellung 

 nicht dazu berechtigt, den Museen neue Wege zu weisen. 



2. Ergänzungen und Nachträge zu dem Personalverzeichnis 

 zoologischer Anstalten. 



Der Herausgeber richtet an die Herren Fachgenossen 

 die Bitte, ihm etwaige Ergänzungen der Personalverzeich- 

 nisse oder eingetretene Veränderungen freundlichst bald 

 mitteilen zu wollen. E. Korscheit. 



München. 



Kgl. Bayer. Biolologische Versuchsstation für Fischerei. 

 Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Bruno Hof er. 

 Wissenschaftliches Mitglied der Station: Dr. Fr. Graf. 

 I. Assistent: Dr. Marianne Plehn. 

 11. - Dr. Eugen Neresheimer. 



Diener: Carl Holfeiner. 

 Es arbeiten an der Station außerdem : 



Dr. Hans Reuß, Dr. Walter Hein und Dr. H. N. Maier, Kreis- 

 wanderlehrer für Fischerei in Oberbayern. 



3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



Abstract of Proceedings, May 30tli, 1906. — 1) On the Genus Cardio- 

 thorax, -with descriptions of new Species of Australian Coleoptera. Part II. 

 By H. J. Carter, B. A. — All workers in Australian Entomology who are 

 precluded from an examination of types in European Museums find their 

 difficulties increased by the want of information on many of the commoner 

 species. The present paper is an attempt to clear up much of the confusion 

 that has existed as to the nomenclatui'e, identification and geographical distri- 

 bution in one of the larger genera of the Family Tenebrionidae, Subfamily 

 Helopides, viz., the Genus Cardiothorax. The beetles of this family are usually 

 found under logs, or bark of decaying trees, and occur in considerable numbers 

 throughout the eastern regions of Queensland, N. S. Wales and Victoria. 

 None have so far been recorded from the other States; indeed the only species 

 recorded from Victoria is the n. sp. C. australis described in the present paper. 

 Mr. Masters' Catalogue enumerated 39 species, and Mr. Blackburn has 

 since added one more. Of these, seventeen only were identified in our 

 museums. The paper indicates five of the above names as synonyms, with 

 the strong probability of two others being similarly placed. Of the remaining 

 33, seven only remain unidentified, or unseen by the writer, while nine new 

 species are added to the list; thus bringing up the total to 42 species (or 44, 

 if the two doubtfully distinct species, C. fraternalis'Bates, and C. volgipes Ba-tes, 

 be still retained). In all cases of identification the geographical distribution 



