24 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
on ‘‘The Birds of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands.’’ This 
essay, which is illustrated by four plates, contains a list of 
79 species, some of which, however, as the author points out, 
are only visitants. Numerous notes on nests and eggs are 
given, as also the nature of surroundings of localities chosen 
for nesting purposes. Mr. Hull gives a tabulated list of 
species which, to the best of his knowledge, actually breed on 
the islands under discussion. Of the 79 species recorded, 
five occur on both Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, and also 
the Australian mainland; one, Lord Howe Island and Aus- 
tralia; five, Norfolk Island and Australia; four, Lord Howe 
and Norfolk Islands, Australia, and New Zealand; four, Nor- 
folk Island, Australia, and New Zealand; one is peculiar 
to Lord Howe Island only; three to Norfolk Island only; 
whilst eight are peculiar only to Lord Howe and Norfolk 
Islands. ‘‘Studies in the Life-Histories of Australian Odo- 
nata, No. 3, Notes on a New Species of Phyllopetalia ; with 
description of Nymph and Imago,” by R. J. Tillyard, M.A., 
F.E.S., is another of this author’s valuable contributions to 
a knowledge of our indigenous dragon-flies. This paper, how- 
ever, is of more than usual interest, because it not only estab- 
lishes Mr. Tillyard’s previous announcement of the occurrence 
of the Chilian species, Petalia apollo, Selys, in Australia— 
a statement which had been received with some misgiving 
by European Odonatologists—but it also contains the de- 
scription of the first recorded larva ever found of the remark- 
able Petalia group of Odonata. This latter Mr. Tillyard was 
enabled to breed out, with the result that a species new to 
science was obtained, and for which he proposes the name 
Phyliopetalia patricia. The larva was collected by Mr. Keith 
Brown at Leura Creek, Blue Mountains. This paper is illus- 
trated by a plate and figures in the text. Mr. E. J. Goddard, 
B.A., B.Sc., has a ‘‘Contribution to our Knowledge of Aus- 
tralian Hirudinea” (Part IV.), and this is also illustrated by 
three plates and some text figures. Like Mr. Lea’s paper, this 
is also severely technical, but it is one that will be of value 
to students of this group of animals. If the zoologists are 
well catered for in this part of the ‘‘Proceedings,’”’ the geolo- 
gists have also come in for a share of attention, and by such 
well-known men as Dr. Jenson, Mr. Leo Cotton, B.A., B.Sc., 
and Dr. W. G. Woolnough, F.G.S. Of this series the first 
is on “‘The Variable Character of the Vegetation on Basalt 
Soils’’; the second, ‘‘The Tin Deposits of New England, 
N.S.W., Part I.—the Elsmore-Tingha District’’ (six plates 
and eleven text figures) ; and the third, ‘‘The General Geology 
of Marulan and Tallong, N.S.W.”’ (five plates and one figure 
in the text). 
