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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



September 27th, 1916. 



Mr. A. G. Hamilton, President, in the Chair. 



The President offei-ed a very cordial welcome to Mr. C. F. 

 Laseron, a Member who had served and been wounded at 

 Gallipoli. He also made sympathetic reference to Mr. M. 

 Aurousseau, another Member, recently reported as having been 

 wounded in France. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (30th August, 1916), amounting to 8 Vols., 

 55 Parts or Nos., 4 Bulletins, one Report, and 4 Pamphlets, 

 received from 38 Societies, etc., and two private donors, were 

 laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. J. L. Froggatt showed specimens of a third, at present 

 undescribed, species of Chalcid wasp, parasitic upon the Sheep 

 maggot-fly, from Hay, N.S.W. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited a series of specimens illus- 

 trating the life-history of the Ribbed Case-Moth (Thxjridopteryx 

 herichii), recently damaging the foliage of the Sugar-Gums 

 (Encalypfus corynocalyx) at Yanco, at the Irrigation Area at 

 Leeton, and elsewhere. 



Mr. Fred Turner exhibited an example of prolification of an 

 apple given to him by Mr. J. H. Beatson, Managing Director, 

 Messrs. Anderson & Co., Seedsmen and Plant Merchants, Sydney, 

 who had received it from a client of his firm. There were no 

 true carpels produced in the abnormal fruit, but a whorl of 

 leaves (probably enlarged sepals) were developed at its summit, 

 a very curious and interesting form of vegetable teratology. 



