625 



ORDINARY MONTBLY MEETING. 



October 27th, 1915. 



Mr. A. G. Hamilton, President, in the Chair. 



• The President announced that the Council was prepared to 

 receive applications for four Linnean Macleay Fellowships 

 tenable for one year from April 1st, 1916, from qualified Candi- 

 dates. Applications should be lodged with the Secretary, who 

 would afford all necessary information to intending Candidates, 

 not later than 30th November, 1915. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (29th September, 1915), amounting to 6 Vols., 

 65 Parts or Nos., 28 Bulletins, 2 Reports, and 14 Pamphlets, 

 received from 43 Societies and four private donors, were laid 

 upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Tillyard exhibited the well-grown larva of a species of the 

 Neuropterous genus Paychopsis, found on a large forest-tree on 

 Mount Tambourine, S. Queensland, which may possibly be the 

 larva of P. illidgei, a very rare and beautiful species known only 

 from this locality. 



Mr. E. Cheel exhibited — A series of specimens of Perennial 

 Red Clover (Trifolium pratense-perenne) from Hill Top, infected 

 with Rust, Uromyces trifolii (Alb. k Schw.) Wint., in all stages. 

 At previous Meetings, (These Proceedings, 1913, pp.171 and 379; 

 1915, p. 290) examples were shown with the uredo- and teleuto- 

 stages only. On the specimens now brought to notice, collected 

 during the present month, the secidio-stage occurred in circular 

 clusters on the leaflets, as well as thickly studded on the petioles, 

 showing that the Rust is autoecious. Mr. F. D. Kern, " Phyto- 

 pathology" (official organ of the American Phytopathological 

 Society), Vol. i. (1911), p. 3, states that there is some doubt 



