158 ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



every Member on application to the Secretary, the tickets to be 

 allotted in the order in which applications were received, so long 

 as accommodation was available. 



The President further stated that the Ordinary Monthly Meet- 

 ing would be held on Wednesday, 29th May. It was requested 

 that Members would postpone Notes and Exhibits to the follow- 

 ing Meeting, on 26th June, so that as much time as possible 

 might be available for a discussion of the papers by Messrs. E. 

 C. Andrews, G. H. Halligan, T. G. Taylor and Dr. Woolnough, 

 which appeared in Part 4 of the Proceedings for 1906, recently 

 issued. As it was proposed to make the discussion the feature 

 of the Meeting, Members who wished to take part were requested 

 to take note of the date. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 40 Vols., 56 Parts or Nos., 12 

 Bulletins, 7 Reports, 30 Pamphlets, and 15 Maps, received from 

 46 Societies, &c., and 2 Individuals, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a very complete and fine collection of 

 sexed examples of Hymenopterous insects of the Family Thyn- 

 nidcB, in illustration of the paper b}'- Mr. Rowland E. Turner. 

 As in the case of the allied family AhUillidce, the male insects 

 are handsome, winged, wasp-like creatures; while the females are 

 small and wingless, and often so unlike the corresponding males 

 that it is usually very difficult to obtain correctly matched pairs. 



Mr. Froggatt also showed adult specimens and living, newly 

 hatched young ones, of a grasshopper {CEdaleus senegalensis 

 Krauss), which might be regarded as the common plague locust 

 of the eastern coastal area of the State. 



Mr. Jensen exhibited a specimen of the Kava-root, Piper 

 inethysticum, from which the national beverage of the South Sea 

 Islands is made. 



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