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While reserving for the present the full discussion of the affinities 

 of the genus Ooperipatus I would point out that it is evidently most 

 closely related to Po cock's Peripatoides , which occurs side by side 

 with it both in Australia and New Zealand. 



Christchurch, New Zealand, July 5th, 1900. 



II. Mittheilnngen ans Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



June 27th, 1900. — 1) Notes on some Australian and New Zealand 

 Parasitic Hymenoptera, with Descriptions of new Genera and Species. By 

 William H. Ashmead, Assistant Curator, Division of Insects, U.S. National 

 Museum, Washington. (Communicated by W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.). Sixty- 

 four species were represented in two collections brought together by Mr. 

 W. W. Froggatt, and Mr. A. Koebele, formerly of the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture. Of these forty-nine are described as new. ■ — 2) On the Care- 

 nides (Fam. Carabidœ). Part III. By Thomas G. Sloane. Nine species refe- 

 rable to the genera Laccopterum , Carenum , Eutoma and Carenidium , are 

 described as new, from Queensland, North-west, West, and Central- Australia. 

 A synoptic table of the groups of species into which the genus Carenum may 

 be subdivided is given, with notes thereon. — 3) Descriptions of two new 

 Species of Diptera from Western Australia. By D. W. Coquillett. (Com- 

 municated by Arthur M. Lea). A species of Phytomyza, the larvae of which 

 mine the leaves of the Beet, and one of Myiophasia , parasitic upon the 

 Scarabeid Anoplostethus opalinus, Burm, are described. The second of these, 

 founded upon male specimens , may indeed be congeneric with Neophasia 

 pietà, Brauer and Bergenst., founded on a female specimen without antennae 

 from West Australia. — 4) Descriptions of two new blind Weevils from 

 Western Australia and Tasmania. By Arthur M. Lea. Only two species 

 of blind Coleoptera have hitherto been recorded from Australia, namely, 

 Ualor/iynchus caecus, Woll., from West Australia, and Illaphanus Stephensi, 

 Mach, from New South Wales, both dwelling close to sea-beaches. An 

 additional species of Halorhynchus from the "outer beach" at Geraldton, 

 W.A., is described in the present paper, together with an insect for which 

 a new genus is proposed, and of which the type specimen was found in the 

 nest of a small red ant near Hobart. — Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited mounted 

 preparations of various crustaceans including Nectocarcinus integrifrons, 

 M.-Edw. , from Port Jackson, Cancer novœ-zelandiœ , Jacq. & Lucas, from 

 New Zealand, Lithodes mata, Leach, from Norway, and Macrophthalmus 

 setosus, M.-Edw., one specimen of the last of these being distorted by the 

 attack of a parasite [Bopyrus sp.). Mr. Froggatt exhibited a series of co- 

 types of the parasitic Hymenoptera described in Mr. Ashmead's paper. — 

 Mr. Waterhouse exhibited the sexes of the butterfly commonly known as 

 Papilio Erectheus, Don.; and he raised the question of the authority for the 

 choice of names in this and similar cases. The female was originally descri- 

 bed and figured by Donovan in the "Insects of New Holland" (1805) as 

 P. JEgeus (pi. xiv.), and the male as P. Erectheus in the same work (pi. xv.) 



Juiy 25th, 1900. — 1) Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera. 



