MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 525 
——~ Occ. homodoxa, n. sp. Fore wings whitish-grey, closely irro- 
rated with darker, a mark on fold and another on anal angle hardly 
darker; hind wings grey. Lake Wakatipu. 
~~ Oee. sidevodeta, n. sp. Fore wings narrow, ochreous, suffused 
with dark fuscous, sometimes with three obscure fasciz, inner 
margin generally paler; hind wings dark grey. Christchurch, 
Dunedin, Lake Wakatipu. 
—.. Cec. hoplodesma, n. sp. Fore wings narrow, pale yellow, an- 
terior half of costa, three oblique fasciz and a hind marginal streak 
grey; hind wings grey. Rakaia. 
—Ocee. chrysogramma, n. sp. Fore wings narrow, deep yellow, base, 
two oblique tasciz, a costal spot, and hind marginal streak dark 
purple-fuscous ; hind wings dark fuscous. Wellington. 
_. Cvemnogenes, n. g. Characters of Oecophova, but antenne in male 
with ciliations whorled or closely set over entire surface. 
—- Crem. oxyina, n. sp. Fore wings in male dark fuscous mixed 
with ferruginous, in female reddish-ochreous, sometimes with a 
pale indented dorsal streak, a spot beneath fold and discal dot 
blackish ; hind wings dark fuscous. Lake Wakatipu. 
_—. Crem. aphrontis,n. sp. Fore wings ochreous-yellow,: partially 
suffused with grey, with a black discal dot; hind wings dark grey, 
paler towards base. Arthur’s Pass (5000 ft.). 
Christchurch, 5th July, 1883.—Professor F. W. Hutton, Presi- 
dent, in the chair. 
The President announced that. the Honorary Secretary, Mr. 
G. Gray, had been obliged to resign, having been appointed lecturer 
on Chemistry in the School of Agriculture at Lincoln, and that the 
Council had elected Mr C. Chilton as Honorary Secretary. The 
vacancy on the Council made by Mr. Chilton taking the Secretary- 
- ship had been filled up by Mr. G. Gray. 
Papers—(r) ‘‘A Visit to the central part of the New Zealand 
Alps,” by R. von Lendenteld, Ph.D. (See page 504). 
Christchurch, 2nd August, 1883.—Professor F. W. Hutton, 
President, in the chair. 
New members—R. F. Irvine, T. P. Arnold, A. Beaver, Dr. 
Stewart. 
Papers—(1) ‘‘ The Germ Theory of Disease, with especial 
reference to the Infectiveness of Consumption,” by R. H. Bake- 
well, M.D. 
The author gave a resumé of the experiments of Pasteur, Klein, 
Buchner, and Koch on the Bacillus anthracis of splenic fever in 
sheep. He then explained the old and newer theories as to the 
nature of consumption, and the observations and experiments of 
Koch on the Bacillus of tubercle. The objections madeto Koch’s 
observations were then recounted, and in a review of the question 
the author arrived at the following conclusions :—That the evi- 
dence at present was very conflicting. That Koch’s deductions 
were not warranted by the evidence, and that his experiments 
could be explained by the older theories. The author was of 
opinion that Dr. Bastian had fully proved the fact of spontaneous 
generation, and he (the author) thought that these bacteria. were 
products of degeneration spontaneously produced, each tissue pro- 
ducing bacteria sw generis. He adduced in support of this that 
