SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES. 
further matings of these first generation hybrids were obtained and the young 
second generation larye are now under observation. As seen from the 
Specimens exhibited the first generation hybrids combine the characters of both 
parents, the broad’ orange band of the forewing of abeona being very much 
reduced in size and much paler in colour. When it was necessary to keep the 
specimens alive for more than a day, they were artificially fed with a mixture of 
thoney and water. He also exhibited for comparison a series of Tisiphone abeona 
from Eastern Australia showing the northern and southern forms and. the 
wonderful variation existing at Port Macquarie. : 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
Meeting held in June. Chairman, Sir Joseph Verco,’M.D., F.R.C.S. (Presi- 
dent). . : 
» Papers:—‘ A Revision of the Australian Noctuide,” by A, Jefferis Turner, 
M.D., F.E.S. 
This is a critical revision of the Australian species, some 500: in number, 
based on Sir Geo. Hampson’s work, so far as the end of the Acontianw. With them 
the Agaristidew, usually regarded as a distinct family, are included as a sub- 
family. 
* Contribution to the Orchidaceous Flora of Papua (British New Guinea),” 
by R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D., and C. F. White, F.L.S. 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA. 
At the June meeting (Mr. ‘L. Rodway, C.M.G., Vice-President, in the chair) 
the following members were elected:—Dr. W. I. Clark, Messrs. J. H. Gillies, 
and F. B. Cane. 
A paper by Mr. G. H. Hardy on “ Australian Stradiomiide ” was read. The 
** paper included description of new species. 
Messrs. H. H. Scott and Clive Lord read a paper on “Studies of Tasmanian 
Mammals, Living and Extinct, Part II.” The paper was. divided into two 
sections, and dealt mainly with the skeleton of Nototherium mitchelli recently 
obtained from the north-west coast of Tasmania, The first section gave a résumé 
of the history of the genus, and the second dealt with the osteology of the 
cervical vertebre. The authors desire to show that the species was one essen- 
tially adapted for aggressive warfare. They point out that whereas the skulls 
of Nototherium mitchelli and N. tasmanicum—at least—(with the possibility 
of other species) are equally large and weighty, yet their cervical vertebra show 
marked differences, one being an exaggeration of the standard of the modern 
wombat in about the same ratio of power (N. tasmanicum), while the other 
shows an additional power with interspinal muscles and paddings, suitable to 
the resisting of great shocks in the longaxis of the head and vertebre. 
Mr. Rodway delivered an illustrated lecture on the “Overland Route to the 
West Coast.” The lecturer traced the course of the proposed road, and dealt 
with the geographical features of the country through which it would pass. 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
At the July meeting, a paper on Aphrophyllum Hallense, gen. et. sp. noy. and 
Lithostrotion, from the neighbourhood of Bingara, New South Wales, was read 
by Stanley Smith, M.A., D.Se., F.G.S, (communicated by Professor W. N. 
Benson). The corals studied were obtained by Dr. Benson at the head of Hall’s 
Creek, 16 miles south of Bingara, and are referred by the author to Lithostrotion 
arundineum, and Li. stanvellense, two species instituted by the late Robert 
Etheridge, Jnr., for corals from Lion Creek, near Rockhampton, topotypes of 
which, kindly forwarded by Mr. B. Dunstan, have been studied and described 
in the preparation of the present note. After a discussion of - the’ genus 
Lithostrotion and its separation into species, the feature of the two species 
are described and compared with forms in Britain, of which they most resemble 
respectively L. irregulare and L. martini, but differ in the stoutness of the 
columella, the replacement of the tabellw, and the size and irregularity of the 
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