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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 27th July, 1921. 



Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S., President, in the Cbair. 



A card was received from Sir Hugh Dixson, returning thanks for congratu- 

 lations. 



The following resolution, carried at the last meeting of the Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science was read : — 



"That in order to carry out immediately a co-ordinated Investigation into 

 the Land and Freshwater Fauna and the Flora of Australia and Tasmania, 

 the Societies and Institutions in the various States ... be requested to co- 

 operate in the work and to take such steps as they may deem most advisable 

 for the carrying out of this work, more especially in securing in each State the 

 active assistance of specialists in different branches of Botany and Zoology." 



The President invited Members to discuss this resolution at the next meet- 

 ing of the Society. 



• The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous monthly meet- 

 ing (29th June, 1921), amounting to 4 vols., 65 Parts or Nos., 8 Bulletins, and 

 1 Pamphlet, received from 41 Societies and Institutions, and one private donor, 

 were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited living larvae of a saw-lly, Pterygophorus 

 analis, from Bindango Station, near Roma, Queensland, where they are de- 

 foliating thousands of ircmbark trees. They then mass together at the bases 

 of the trees, where the cattle find them and eat them. It is stated that a num- 

 ber of cattle have died as a result (see also These Proceedings, xliii., 1918, p. 

 671). 



Mr. Froggatt also exhibited the foliage of a satinwood tree from Warrah, 

 covered with galls formed by leaf mites, Eriophites sp. Each gall contains a 

 dozen or more tiny, cylindrical, four-legged, reddish-brown mites clustered to- 

 gether in the top of the gall. 



Mr. W. F. Blakely exhibited from the National Herbarium, specimens of 

 Helipterum uniflorum J. M. Black (Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xli., 1917, p. 651) 

 previously only known from South Australia, and now recorded for New 

 South Wales, from the following localities: Yandalo, near Wilcannia (W. Bauer- 

 len, Aug., 1887); Paldrumatta Bore (P. Corbett, May. 1901); Toorale-Goonery, 

 Paroo River (J. L. Boornian, Oct. 1912). There is also a specimen in tlie 

 Herbarium from Mt. Lyndhurst, S.A. (Max. Koch, No. 255, Oct., 1898). Mr. 



