64 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
Breatium Kewense. At the May meeting Mr. KE. L. Hayes 
exhibited a living example of this interesting land planarian 
worm. Mr. Steel identified it as above, and gave the following 
information :— 
First discovered in a glass house at Kew Gardens, London, 
many years ago, to which it had come with plants from some 
unknown locality abroad, it was named and described by Mose- 
ley. Since then it has been recorded from many localities all 
over the world, and is common in New Zealand, and various 
parts of Australia. A large number of species of the same 
genus are found in Ceylon and India. The remarkable feature 
is the peculiar fan-shaped anterior end, round the marg*n of 
which are grouped the so-called “eyes,” which can be seen with 
a lens as dark dots: Like most other land planarians, it feeds 
upon insects. 
-PsycHoprsis mimca. At the April meeting Mr. L. Gallard 
exhibited a living example of the larva of this interesting insect. 
This was the sole survivor hatched from a number of eggs laid 
by adults captured at Albury by Miss Brown, where they flew 
to a light, and sent to me. Hatched on February 5th, 1921, out 
of 9 specimens 3 survived till September 23rd, at which date they 
appeared to be half-grown, two died then. By the end of De- 
~ cember this specimen was the largest Psychopsis larva I had 
ever seen. Contrary to my expectation, the larva did not pu- 
pate within the Christmas season, and I do not expect it to do 
so now until next brood season. 
L. GALLArp. 
Mr. P. D. Murray. We regret to receive the resignation of 
Mr. P. D. Murray, B.Sc., as honorary librarian. He has been 
a member of our Society for a number of years, and last year 
undertook to reorganise the library. Mr. Murray has had a 
brilliant career at Sydney University, and has gone to Oxford 
University to do research work in zoology. At a recent meet- 
ing, the Fresident (Miss Brewster), on behalf of the members 
expressed our regret at losing Mr. Murray as an active member, 
and wished him every success in his future career. 
