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Messrs. Waterhouse and Turner called attention to the fact that 

 they had had the opportunity of examining a collection of butter- 

 flies recently made on Lord Howe Island, which contained three 

 species not previously recorded from the Island [the Society's Pro- 

 ceedings, 1897, p. 285) — Melariitis leda, Linn., the first record of a 

 Satyrid Butterfly; Appias ega, Boisd. ((J9); and Terias lihythea, 

 Fabr. 



Dr. Goding and Mr. Froggatt exhibited a portion of the 

 extensive collection of the Australian Cicadid?e studied by them, 

 in illustration of their paper. 



Mr. Froggatt showed the type-specimens of the remarkable 

 Neuropterous insects described in his paper. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited examples of the male amenta of the 

 Bunya ^\xny?i {Araucaria Bidwilli, Hook.), some of them exceed- 

 ing 5 inches in length, from a tree just now in full flower in a 

 garden at Hunter's Hill. In the original description. Sir William 

 Hooker gave the length of the male amenta as "about 4 inches." 

 By Mr. Bentham in the ' Flora Australiensis,' as also by Mr. 

 Bailey in the 'Queensland Flora,' they are said to be " 2 to 3 in. 

 long." The question was asked whether a tendency to an increase 

 in the length of the amenta was a variation characteristic of trees 

 in cultivation. 



WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 1904. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

 the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday 

 evening, July 27th, 1904. 



Dr. T. Storie Dixson, President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that the Council had decided to offer, 

 forthwith, three Linnean Macleay Fellowships, each of the annual 



