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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



26th NOVEMBER, 1019. 



Mr. J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Leslie Lionel Hall, Kareela Road, Cremorne, was 

 elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



Candidates for Fellowships 1920-21 were reminded that ap- 

 plications must be lodged not later than the 30th instant. 



The President made regretful reference to the decease of Mr. 

 W. J. Rainbow, F.E.S., who had been a Member of the 

 Society since 1892. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (29th October, 1919), amounting to 9 Vols., 54 

 Parts or Nos.. 1 Bulletin, 3 Reports and 1 Pamphlet, received 

 from 36 Societies and Institutions and one private donor, were 

 laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited — (i.) a series of mounted 

 specimens of the Bugong Moth, Agrotis infusa, taken at the 

 Government Sheep Fly Experiment Station, Warrah, on 7th 

 November, and read a note on their habits. — (ii. ) a living 

 specimen of the Ironbark Beetle, Zosperosis georgei, from a 

 banana plantation, Murwillumbah, where it is reported to be 

 common. — (iii.) five forms of Apiomorpha pileata Sch., a 

 Brachyscelid Coecid gall, (a) slender capped female galls on 

 Eucalyptus Sieberiana from Cordeaux Dam, (6) young female 

 galls without caps or just shedding them, (c) massed female 

 galls on branchlet, in which the bulk of the female coccids and 

 tails have become aborted; some male galls among them, on 

 Eiicalyptus sp. from Wyong, (d) normal lipped adult female 

 galls, with typical male gall on leaf, and (e) thick-set form of 

 Apiomorpha pileata, in which the lips round the apical orifice 

 do not extend across the whole of the apex. 



