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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 November 26th, 1913. 

 Mr. W. S. Dun, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. William Anderson, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., Sydney, was elected 

 an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



The President reminded Candidates for Fellowships, 1914-15, 

 that Saturday, 29th inst., was the last day for submitting their 

 applications. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (22th October, 1913), amounting to 5 Vols., 

 43 Parts or Nos., 4 Bulletins, 4 Reports, and 9 Pamphlets, 

 received from 39 Societies, etc., and three individuals, were laid 

 upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. D. G. Stead showed examples of a frog, Crinia signifera, 

 common on the Kosciusko Tableland, even at the highest eleva- 

 tions, near water. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited cotypes of eight species of Cicadidse, 

 part of a collection made by Mr. H. Brown, at Cue, N. W. Aus- 

 tralia, and recently described by Mr. W. L. Distant; also a cotype 

 of another species, from Cooma, N.S.W. Mr. Froggatt showed 

 also, a number of small Chalcid wasps, parasitic upon the maggots 

 and pupae of the Sheep Maggot-Fly {Calliphora rufifacies). These 

 were obtained, in large numbers, by Mr. J. L. Froggatt, Officer 

 in charge of the Government Sheep-Fly Experiment Station, and 

 himself, emerging from dried pupae beneath a dead foal at Yarra- 

 win Station, Brewarrina district. Each pupa examined, con- 

 tained, on an average, twenty Chalcid wasps. 



