lxxii. 



by pictorial representations of types, when necessary, would 

 greatly facilitate the labours of the student. 



Mr. ~W. Macleay, in Presidential Address, vol. 1, p. 21., gives 

 a brief summary of the earlier history of Australian entomology, 

 down to the publication, in 1848, of Gfermar's paper in the 

 "Linnaea Entomologica" on the insect fauna of South Aus- 

 tralia, which affords fuller information than I gave in last 

 year's address. 



Lepidoptera of the Family Zygaenidce : By A. Gr. [Butler, 

 Journal Linnean Society, 1875, 3 pi. 



Four new species of Hydrusa from Australia are described, 

 and references are made to some other Australian species. The 

 paper is a correction and emendation of Mr. Walker's list. 



Description of Australian Micro- Lepidoptera : By E. Meyrick, 

 Proc. Linnean Soc, N.S.W., vol. 3, p. 175, and vol. 4, p. 205 

 (1878-9). The author estimates the total number of species 

 occurring on the Australian Continent to be fully 10,000. A 

 certain number of descriptions of Australian micro-lepidopters 

 are stated to be included by Walker, in his Brit. Mus. Cat., and 

 a few by Zeller, Norman, &c. The present communication deals 

 only with the group Crambites, of which 71 are described, 50 being 

 new, and one genus is established. The following species were 

 collected about Adelaide: — Crambus trivittatus, Z. ; O.relatalis, 

 Wkr. ; C. bifracte\lus, Wkr. ; Etiella Behrii, Z. ; E. chryso- 

 porella, Mey. ; Homceosoma rageJla, Z. ; and Apliomia latro, Z. 



Contributions toivards a Knowledge of the Qurculionidce : By P. 

 P. Pascoe, part iv., 4 plates (Journal of Linnean Society, vol. 

 xii., 1873. Forty-one species from Australia are described, 

 four of which are from South Australia. 



Description of Neiv Species and Genera of Tlximolpida : By J. S. 

 Bailey. (Journal of Linnean Soc, vol. xiv., p. 246, 1S78.) 

 Three of the new forms are from this continent ; and " Descrip- 

 tions of JVew Genera and Species of Gallerucince." (Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., August, 1879, p. 108.) 



A new species of pulmoniferous snail, living in the mangrove 

 swamps about Port Adelaide, is technically described by Mr. 

 Brazier, under the name of Alexia nieridionalis, in Proc. 

 Linnean Soc, N.S.W., vol. ii., p. 26 (1877). 



Mr. E. Smith, marine shells from the Solomon Islands, Journ. 

 Linnean Soc, 1876. Figures and describes JYassa bicallosa from 

 Swan Eiver ; and Thracia Angasiana and T. JacJcsoniana from 

 Port Jackson, and reports the occurrence of Terebra cancellata, 

 Quoy (T. undatella, Desh.) at Port Elliot. 



Mr. Angas, in Proc. Zoological Soc, November, 1878, gives a 

 list of additional species of marine mollusca to be included in 

 the fauna of this Province. It is a supplement to a former 

 list published in 1S65, and includes a few published records of 



