26 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXV. 



" Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria, No. 6 : Tiie 

 Buffalo Mountains," by E. J. Dunn, F.G.S., Director, from the 

 Department of Mines, Melbourne ; " Proceedings of Royal 

 Society of Victoria," n.s., vol. xx., part 2, from the Society ; 

 "Annual Report for 1907 of Department of Mines, New South 

 Wales," " Memoirs of Geological Survey, New South Wales : 

 Palaeontology," Nos. 10 and 13, and " Problems of the Artesian 

 Water Supply of Australia," by E. F. Pittman, A.R.S.M., from 

 the Department of Mines, Sydney ; " Records of Australian 

 Museum, Sydney," vol. vi.. No. 6, and vol. vii.. No. i, from the 

 Trustees ; Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, April and 

 May, 1908, from the Department of Agriculture, Sydney; 

 " Proceedings Hawaiian Entomological Society," vol. i., part 4, 

 October, 1907, from the Society; Nature Notes, April, 1908, 

 from the Selborne Society, London ; Knoivledge, April, 1908, 

 from the proprietors. 



ELECTIONS. 



On a ballot being taken, the following were duly elected 

 members of the Club : — As ordinary members — Mr. Arthur E. 

 Tutton, 22 Merri-street, Brunswick ; Mrs. E. L. Brownell, 

 " Rosebank," Clarendon-street, East Melbourne ; Mr. A. George, 

 190 Keele-street, Collingwood ; Mr. E. Joshua, St. James's 

 Buildings, William-street, Melbourne. As junior members — 

 Miss Audrey Ursula Sutton, Miss Sylvia Sutton ; Master George 

 Allan Vasey, Mont Albert-road, Canterbury ; Master J. Smith, 

 " Earlscourt," Glenferrie-road, Hawthorn. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Nominations for office-bearers for 1908-9 were received, and 

 Messrs. D. Best and J. Shepherd were elected to audit the 

 accounts for the past year. 



PAPER. 



By Messrs. T. S. Hall, M.A., D.Sc, and J. H. Harvey, entitled 

 " Illustrations of the Geology of the Victorian Coast." A large 

 series of lantern views, illustrating the geology of various parts 

 of the Victorian coast, were shown and explained in an interesting 

 manner by Dr. T. S. Hall. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Mottled Cup Moth. — Mr. J. S. Kitson read a note on the 

 occurrence of an unusually large number of the larvae of the 

 Mottled Cup Moth, Limacodes longerans. He stated that during 

 a visit to the North-East (Beiialla district) at Easter strong evid- 

 ences were seen of what was a veritable plague. On the Mokoan 

 Ranges, for a distance of some miles along their sides and sum- 

 mit, almost every tree had been stripped of its leaves, in many 

 cases not even the mid-rib being left. When approaching the 



