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ORDINARY MONTHLY INIEETING. 

 August 27tb, 1917. 

 Dr. H. G. Chapman, President, in tlie Chair. 

 The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (2oth July, 1917), amounting to 5 Vols., 23 

 Parts or Nos., 4 Bulletins, 1 Report, and 3 Pamphlets, received 

 from 28 Societies, etc., and two private donijrs, were laid upon 

 the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited fresh specimens of the two connnon 

 grain-weevils from wheat-stacks at Melbourne and Sydney. It 

 has been customary hitherto to record the common grain-weevil 

 as Calmidra or\jzw Linn. This is correct as far as Sydney is 

 concerned; but, on examining a number obtained from wheat- 

 stacks at Port- Melbourne, these were found to be all wheat- 

 weevils, Calaudra yraiiaria^ a distinct species, that is unknown 

 or very rare in Sydney. Calaudra oryzce is winged and can tly, 

 has the wing-covers showing four light blotches on the br<jwn, the 

 punctures down the parallel striju close together, and the punc- 

 tures on the prothorax rounded and chjse together. Calaudra 

 (jranaria is wingless and cannot Hy, and the wing-covers are of a 

 uniform dark brown tint, with the punctures on the prothorax 

 oblong. Both are cosmopolitan in their range, but the first- 

 named is the common Indian species. 



Mr. Fletcher showed very complete suites of specimens of the 

 three crimson-flowered kinds of Callistemon to be found in the 

 neighbourhood of Sydney; and he pointed out how a comparison 

 of their characters and habitats, and of the conditions under which 

 they are usually associated, favoured the view that the correct 

 interpretation of Mr. Bentham's statement as to one of them (C 

 riyidus R.Br.) being "intermediate" between the other two (C. 

 lanceolatns D.C., and'C. linearis D.C.) was, that it is a natural 

 hybrid. After the President and Mr. Cheel had offered some 

 remarks, further discussion was postponed to next Meeting. 



