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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 26th October, 1921. 



Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, B.Se., B.E., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. A. Eland Shaw, Wynnuiu South, Queensland, was elected au Ordinary 

 Member of the Society. 



The President announced that the Council is prepared to receive applica- 

 tions for four Linneau Macleay Fellowships, tenable for one year from 1st 

 April, 1922, from (lualified Candidates. Applications should be lodged with 

 the Secretary, who will afford all necessary information to intending Candidates, 

 not later than 30th November, 1921. 



A letter was read from Mr. H. Burrell, returning thanks for congratulations 

 on the success of his collecting. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting 

 (28th September, 1921), amounting to 7 Vols., 54 Parts or Nos., 4 Bulletins, 

 and 2 Reports, received from 31 Societies and Institutions and two private 

 donors, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AKD EXHIBITS. 



Dr. R. J. Tillyard exhibited a set of five fossil insect wing's recently dis- 

 covered by Messrs. J. Mitchell and T. Pincombe in the Upper Penniau Insect 

 Beds of Belmont. Three of the specimens are wings of the Scorpion-fly Per- 

 mvchorista Till., already known from these beds. There is also a fine Lacewing, 

 evidently ancestral to (juite a number of families of Planipennia existing in 

 Austraha to-day, and the first record of the Order Planipennia older than 

 IL'pper Triassic. The fifth wing is only about 3 mm. long, represents a new 

 family of the Sternorrhynchous Homoptera, and is clearly closely allied to both 

 the Aphiid-ae and Psyllidae. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited a li\ing specimen of a chalcid wasp, 

 Dinoura cyanea Ashm., bred from the gall of Apiomorpha ovicola; also mounted 

 specimens of this and a second species T>. auricentris Ashm. The,se chalcid 

 wasps are remarkable for the extraordinary prolongation of the abdomen in the 

 female which teiminates in a three-flanged process. They are inquilines in the 

 coccid gall cavity, forming a cell in the base in which they pupate. 



Mr. Froggatt also exhibited a specimen of the Frog Warble fly (Brachiom- 

 yia nigritarsus Skuse). The infested frog was received from Mr. T. Steel on 

 31st August. It emerged from the warble on the frog's back on 1st Septeml)er. 

 buried itself in the damp soil and pupated the next day. The perfect fly 

 emerged on 10th October and was kept alive for ten days in a glass tube, being 

 fed on sugared water. 



