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New York State are still making us their debtors, and to warrant 

 our once more exclaiming with. Miranda : 



wonder ! 

 How many goodly creatures are there here ! 

 brave New World, that has such people in't ! 



F. A. Bather. 



II. — Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. By B. J. Tillyard. 



(1 ) Planipennia, Trichoptera, and the new Order Protomecoptera ; 



(2) The Fossil Dragon Fly JEschnidiopsis Jlindersiensis (Wood- 

 ward) from the llolling Downs (Cretaceous) Series; (3) Odonata 

 and Protodonata ; (4) Hemiptera Heteroptera ; the Family 

 Dunstaniidae. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlii, pp. 175-200 

 (1917), 676-92 (1918) ; xliii, pp. 417-36, 568-92 (1918). 



rnHE first, third, and fourth of these papers deal with the insects 

 JL of the Ipswich Beds (Upper Trias) of Ipswich, Queensland. 

 It is stated to be a definitely Mesozoic fauna, not unlike that of the 

 Lias of England, but including a number of older forms apparently 

 relics of the Coal-measure fauna; it is especially interesting because 

 it fills up a gap in the succession of insect faunas owing to the 

 hiatus in the Trias of the Northern Hemisphere. Protopsy chop sis is. 

 a new genus of the Order Neuroptera Planipennia ; Mesopsyche and 

 Triassopsyche are new genera of the Trichoptera. The new Order 

 Protomecoptera, including Archipanorpa, n.gen., forms a connecting 

 link between the Palaeozoic Palaeodictyoptera and the recent 

 Mecoptera. New genera of Odonata are Triassole&tes and Perisso- 

 phlehia. Aeroplana, n.gen., of which the venation does not show any 

 close relationship to that of any other insect, either fossil or recent, 

 is referred to a new sub-order (Aeroplanoptera) of the Protodonata. 

 The affinities of Dunstania are discussed at considerable length ; it 

 was formerly regarded by the author as belonging to the Lepidoptera, 

 but is now referred to the Hemiptera Heteroptera. Two new genera 

 [Dunstaniopsis and Paradunstania), allied to Dunstania, are described. 

 The second paper deals with a dragon-fly from the Boiling Downs 

 Series (Cretaceous) of Flinders Biver, North Queensland. This was 

 originally described by Dr. H. Woodward (1884), who recognized its 

 relationship to JEschnidium from the Purbeck Beds of Dorset. This 

 specimen is described in detail by Dr. Tillyard, who regards it as the 

 type of a new genus, JEschnidiopsis. 



III. — Permian and Triassic Insects from Neav South Wales, in 



the Collection of Mr. John Mitchell. By B. J. Tillyard. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xlii, pp. 720-56, 1918. 



TMHE Permian insects described in this paper come from the upper 



I part of the Newcastle Coal-measures, which are generally classed 



as Permo-Carboniferous on account of the affinities of the marine 



fauna. The insects are associated with a Glossopteris flora, and have 



nothing in common with any known Carboniferous fauna, but show 



distinct affinities with Triassic forms. New genera of the Hemiptera 



Homoptera are Permoscarta and Permofulgor, the latter believed to 



have close affinity with the ancestors of the recent Fulgoridae. The 



