MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 589 
“PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF CANTERBURY. 
Christchurch, Sept. 3rd, 1885.—Dr. Symes, President, in the chair. 
New Members.—Messrs. W. H. Spackman and J. Deans. 
Paper.—‘ Thought transference,” by R. M. Laing, M.A. 
Christchurch, Oct. Ist, '1885.—Dr. W. H. Symes, President, in 
the chair. 
New Member.—Rev. Canon Stanford. 
Donations from the Bureau of Ethnology, United States of Ameri 1Cas 
and from the Royal Society, N.S.W., were laid on the table. 
Professor F. W. Hutton domed a lecture on ‘‘The Stone Age in 
Europe,” in which he gave an interesting account of the present state of 
our knowledge on the subject. 
In the discussion which followed Messrs. G. Hogben, C. Chilton, 
A. d). Dobson, and the President took part. 
Papers. —(1) “Notes on the nomenclature of the New Zealand 
Geometrina,” by Mr. E. Meyrick, B.A. 
Parysatis Meyr. to be Paradetis Meyr. 
Panopea Meyr. to be Pancyma Meyr. 
Hurydice Meyr. to be Homodotis Meyr. 
_Harpalyce Meyr. to be Probolea Meyr. 
Stratonice Meyr. to be Arctesthes Meyr. 
Thyone Meyr. to be Asaphodes Meyr. 
Hermione Meyr. to be Aulopola Meyr. 
Hippolyte Meyr. to be Hpicyme Meyr. 
Arsinoe Meyr. to be Anachloris Meyr. 
Pasithea Meyr. to be Notoreas Meyr. 
Statira Meyr. to be Stathmonyma Meyr. 
Atossa Meyr. to be Hpicasis Meyr. 
Phyllodoce Meyr. to be Gonophylla Meyr. 
Amastris Meyr. to be Sestra Walk. 
Cacopsodes Butl. to be Dichromedes Gn. 
Scotosia Stph. to be united with Cephalissa Meyr., under latter name. 
(2) ‘‘ Deseriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera,” by Mr. E. 
Meyrick, B.A. 
Gelechiade VIII. Tineina (part). 
Megacraspedus calamogonus n.sp. — Forewings whitish-ochreous, 
with three blackish discal dots, second obliquely before first, 
and a fuscous apical streak ; veins 6 and 7 separate; hindwings 
whitish. Larva in seedheads of Arundo conspicua. Christ- 
church. 
