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li. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



November 30th, 1898. — 1) and 2) Botanical. — 3) Ethnological. — 4) A 

 Contribution to the Development of the Common Phalanger. By R. Broom, 

 M.D,, B.Sc. Six rather late stages of the intra-uterine foetus, and eight 

 early stages of the mammary foetus of Trichosurus vrilpecula are described and 

 figured, with remarks on the breeding habits of the species. The membranes 

 of the intra-uterine stages described were torn or displaced, and in only one 

 case moderately intact, but in this specimen no trace of a placenta was found, 

 nor did the allantois appear to reach the uterine mucous membrane. — 5) Ad- 

 ditions to the Fauna of Lord Howe Island. By J. Douglas Ogilby. Descri- 

 ptions of five new species of fishes are given, namely, Howella Brodiei\ Ma- 

 chaerope latispinis, Dimicistrus longifilisj Salarias insulae, and S. alboapicah's', 

 for the first three new genera are proposed, while for H. Brodiei the author 

 has found it necessary to institute a separate family allied to Holocentndae\ 

 Machaerope is a gempylid allied to Nealotus, Diancistrus a brotulidnear Dine- 

 matiohthys. The accuracy of Günthers identification of Valenciennes' Sala- 

 rias variolosusvfiÛiÛiQ species he figures in the , Fische der Südsee' is questioned, 

 and exception is taken to the identity of the Lord Howe Island and Maroubra 

 Monacanthus determined as M. nitens. — 6) Revision of the Genus Paropsis. 

 Part iv. By Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Corr. Mem. Subgroup iv. of the 

 species forming Group vi. of the genus (as characterised in the Proceedings 

 for 1896. p. 638) is dealt with. Fifty-six names have been assigned to spe- 

 cies belonging to the subgroup, of which ten must be regarded as mere syno- 

 nyms. Nine species are unknown to the author; thirty-seven have been identi- 

 fied, and fourteen are described as new. — 7) Contributions to a Knowledge 

 of the Australian Crustacean Fauna. No. i. Observations on the Genus Nep- 

 tunus. By David G. Stead. A general account is given of the habits, cha- 

 racteristics, and structure of the common edible crab, Neptunus pelagicus^ 

 M.-Ed., and its ally N. sanguinolentus^ Herbst. As in certain other Brachyuran 

 genera, three forms are met with — males, females, and sterile females, and 

 these are described at some length. The author also gives it as opinion that 

 two other Sydney species, Ozius irtmcatus, M.-Ed., and Platyonychus bipustu- 

 latus, M.-Ed., will be found to present an analogous state of things. — 8) and 

 9) Botanical. — Mr, Hedley contributed a Note recording an interesting ad- 

 dition to the fauna of N.S. Wales in Liotia loader ae, Petterd, of which he had 

 obtained several specimens on Balmoral Beach, near Sydney. The species 

 was described by Petterd in the Journal of Conchology, iv. 1884. p. 135, 

 from the Leven Heads, Tasmania, and has since been found in South Austra- 

 lia and Victoria. — Mr. Edgar R. Waite exhibited two examples of a Dung 

 Beetle [Aulacopris Peichei, "White) he had obtained in the Yessabah Caves on 

 the Macleay River. These caves are peopled with Bats whose droppings, from 

 their roosting places, form large mounds upon the floor of the cave , at the 

 base of which the beetles were found. Each had excavated a small hollow 

 wherein the dung balls were deposited. One beetle was discovered with seven 

 balls and the other with nine. On examining one of the series it was seen 

 that while the ball at the time being formed contained an egg, others were 

 in various stages of development, indicating that considerable time is ab- 

 sorbed in forming the whole series of balls. 



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