22 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Nominations for office-bearers for 1902-3 were received, and 

 Messrs. D. Best and S. W. Fulton were elected to audit the 

 accounts for the past year. 



Mr. J. Shephard gave notice of his intention to propose the 

 following alteration to rule 6 at the annual meeting to be held 

 in June next : — " That the words ' subscription shall have been 

 paid, or while his subscription is in arrears ' be omitted, and the 

 words ' first subscription shall have been paid, or while any sub- 

 scription subsequently due is more than six months in arrear.' " 



Mr. G. A. Keartland reported that the deputation which, at 

 the instance of the Club, waited on the Minister of Public Works 

 to present the report of the sub-committee re the Gavie Act, was 

 well received by the Minister, who promised to favourably con- 

 sider the recommendations in respect to quail and ducks with a 

 view to their adoption, and also to consider the advisability of 

 altering the close season for opossums, and the proposed re- 

 arrangement of the close seasons for other protected birds. 



The President stated that the Club was indebted to Mr. Keart- 

 land, to whose efforts the successful carrying out of this matter 

 was mainly due. 



PAPERS. 



1. By Mr. E. Anderson, entitled — " Notes on the Larvse of 

 Gastrofliora lienricaria and Fhallaria ophiusaria." 



The author described the larvae of these two rare Victorian 

 moths, which had been successfully reared from the eggs, and 

 noted their food plant, &c. 



Mr. C. French, F.L.S., remarked on the prevalence of a 

 species of fungus which frequently destroys the larvae of some 

 of our moths, and was supported in his remarks by Messrs. F. 

 Spry, D. M'Alpine, and the author. 



Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., stated that there was a necessity 

 for further work of a similar character to that given by the 

 author among our Victorian Lepidoptera, as, although the perfect 

 insects were now fairly well known, there was a tendency to 

 neglect the study of their life-histories, regarding which com- 

 paratively little had been published. He trusted the author 

 would continue to give the Club the results of his researches in 

 this direction. 



2. By Mr. R. Hall, entitled " Notes on the Fish Harpagifer 

 bispinis," Forster. 



The author gave a few notes on a single specimen of this fish 

 which he had collected in Royal Sound, Kerguelen Island, on one 

 side of which, he stated, the lateral line was clearly visible through- 

 out its whole length to the caudal, but on the other side was only 

 visible on the anterior portion. 



