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August 29th, 1900. — 1) Descriptions of some new Araneiàœ of New 

 South Wales. No. 9. By W. J. Rainbow, F.L.S., Entomologist to the Au- 

 stralian Museum. This paper contains descriptions of four new species, and 

 one well-marked variety of a previously described form. Of the forms de- 

 scribed, one is referable to the genus Dysdera 7 Latr., and is consequently a 

 new generic record for Australia. For this species the author proposes the 

 name D. anstraliensis. Other forms described are Tama eucalypti, Araneus 

 parvulus, A. singularis, and Dicrostichus furcatus, Camb., var. distinctus. — 

 2) Studies on Australian Mollusca. Partii. By C. H edley , F.L.S. Seve- 

 ral new marine shells from Queensland and New South Wales are described, 

 including species of Chlamys, Puncturella 1 Terebra : Leucotina, and Liotia. 

 Two plates which accompany the article illustrate these, together with species 

 named by Tenison- Woods, Brazier and Beddome, but not before figured. The 

 genus Menon published in Pt. i. is shown to be reducible to Chileutomia, 

 Tate and Cossmann, hitherto known only as an Eocene fossil. Notes on ha- 

 bits, geographical range and synonymy of known forms conclude the article. 

 — 3) Notes to accompany Figures of Boisduval's Types of Six species of 

 Australian Curculionidœ, By Arthur M. Lea. With the co-operation of 

 Monsieur P. Lesne, of the Paris Museum, the endeavour is made to clear up 

 matters relating to the following species: — Cryptorrhynchus dromedarius, 

 C. lithodermus, C. fidiginosus, C. ephippiger, Gonipterus reliculatus and G. no- 

 tographus. The types are in the Brussels Museum and have been examined 

 by M. Lesne, who has forwarded his notes and sketches. The species were 

 originally described in the "Voyage de l'Astrolabe", but in so brief a manner 

 as to render their identification very difficult without actual comparison with 

 the types. — 4) Contributions to the Morphology and Development of the 

 Female Urogenital Organs in the Marsnpialia. Nos. II. -v. By Jas. P. Hill, 

 B.Sc, F.L.S., Demonstrator of Biology in the University of Sydney. The 

 organs of the following Marsupials are described: — Myrmecobius fasciatas, 

 Waterh., in which some important resemblances to Perameles are presented, 

 yet with important differences; Tarsipes rostratus, Ger., in which a post par- 

 turn, direct, permanently open median passage for the birth of the young is 

 found, as in certain Macropods; Acrobates pygmœa, Sh., and Petaurus brevi- 

 ceps, Waterh., in which probably a pseudo-vaginal passage will be found to 

 occur; and Trichosurns vulpecula, Kerr, in which a pseudo-vaginl passage 

 comparable with that present in Dasyurus viverrinus obtains, Trichosurus thus 

 being the first Diprotodont genus in which this character has certainly been 

 found to occur; and it is again suggested that the explanation of the condi- 

 tion of things met with in Macropus giganteus, Zim., will probably be found 

 to be the formation of a pseudo-vaginal passage. — 5) Descriptions of two 

 new species of Phytophagous Hymenoptera referable to the Families Orys- 

 sidce and Tenth- edinidce\ with Notes on other Saw Flies. By Gilbert Turner. 

 A species of Oryssits, a genus not hitherto recorded from Australia, and one 

 of Clarissa are described, both from Mackay, Q,. In the same locality the 

 author has also collected five species of Perga, one of Hylotoma, four of 

 Pterygophorus, and one of Clarissa. 



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