xlvii. 



Homalota coriaria, Kraatz, Port Augusta. 



" sordida, Marsh, Adelaide, 



politula, Fist, 



Calodera cribrella, Fvl., " Port Augusta. 



australis, Fvl., " 



Phloeocharis antipodum, Fvl., " 



Trogophlosus simplex, Mots., " 



Philonthus sordidus, Grav., " 



" hepaticus, Er., " 



nigritulus, Grav., " 



Quedius thoracicus, Fvl., " 



Heterothops luctuosa, Fvl., " 



" picipeunis, Fvl., " 



Conurus triangulum, Fvl., " 



Brachida suturalis, Fvl., " 



Fauvelia oxytelina, Fvl. sp., " 



Bolitochara discicollis, Fvl., " 



Psederus cruenticollis, Germ., " 



"Descriptions of New Species of Phytophagous Coleoptera." 

 By Marthi Jacoby. Proc. Zool. Soc., Londou, 1879, pp. 773 et 

 seq. Among others, of one species from Tasmania and of two 

 from Queensland. 



Sir John Lubbock describes (in Journ. Linn. Soc, London, 

 vol. xv., p. 186, 1880) a species of ant having a similar habit 

 to the honey-ant of Mexico, " particular individuals of which 

 are specially told off to serve as receptacles of food or 

 animated honey-pots." This second species of the kind, to 

 which the name of Gamponotus inflatus is given, is reported to 

 come from Adelaide ; but that is, of course, inaccurate. It is 

 probably the species which has, however, been received here 

 from the tropical parts of Central Australia. 



" On Seventeen New and Bare Spiders from New Zealand, 

 with characters of four new genera." By Bev. O. P. Cambridge. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, pp. 681 et seq. Plates 52 and 53. 

 Though not any of the species here described are known to 

 occur in Australia, yet the paper is valuable to us as affording 

 new particulars touching the systematic position of certain of 

 our species and of their alliances. 



The Australian Crustacea are being dealt with in a most 

 vigorous manner by Mr. W. A. Haswell, whose previous con- 

 tributions to Carcinology had indicated the considerable 

 neglect that this class of animals had suffered at the hands of 

 naturalists. 



The last two numbers of Vol. IV. of the Proc Lin. Soc, 

 N. S. Wales, contain the following papers from his pen : — 



