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secretary was directed to con\'ey the deep sympathy of the 

 Club to the sorrowing relatives. 



The chairman said that, owing to the printers' strik(>, the 

 April Naturalist could not be published, and at present it VN'as 

 impossible to say when puI)lication would be resumed. 



The chairman announced that Professor W. E. Agar, M.A., 

 D.Sc, the recently-appointed Professor of Biology at the 

 University, would deliver his inaugural lecture in the biology 

 theatre on Wednesda,y, 21st April. Tickets of admission could 

 be obtained on application to him. 



The chairman said that he thought a limit should be put on 

 the length of excursion reports, and that he intended to bring 

 the question before the committee at its next meeting. 



The chairnian asked Professor Ewart, as chairman of the 

 Plant Names Committee, if anything definite had been done 

 as to the publication of the list of vernacular names of Victorian 

 plants, for which a sum of money was in hand from the last 

 exhibition of wild-flowers. 



Professor Ewart said that, owing to various reasons, no 

 scheme had yet been adopted, but he anticipated being able 

 to report on a definite plan at an early date. 



REMARKS ON EXHIBITS. 



Mr. E. Pitclier called attention to a series of twentj'-fivc 

 framed water-colour drawings of Australian flowers by Miss 

 A. Euller. The commission to execute these — which were 

 intended, liy an anonymous donor, for presentation to the 

 Children's Hospital — had resulted from an appreciation of 

 Miss EuUer's work as seen at the last exhibition of wild- 

 flowers. 



Mr. C. J. (jal:)riel called attention to his exliil)it of the method 

 of depositing its eggs by the common Natica, which he had 

 secured recently at Portland. 



PAPERS. 



I. By Mr. J. C. Cioudie, entitled " Notes on the Coleoptera 

 of North-Western Victoria," part viii. 



The author dealt with al)out fifty species of the Buprestid 

 family, including some of the largest and rarest of Victorian 

 species. He mentioned that one of the largest species, 

 TheiHognatha {Stigmudcra) hcros, (iehin., is fn-cjuentiy attacked 

 by a large " robber fly," PhcUiis '^laiicii^, which, catching the 

 beetles on the wing, drives its dagger-like proboscis deep into 

 the soft integument Ix'twccn the prothorax and the elytra, 

 then. c;irr\ing the beetle to some convenient pkice, sucks its 

 victim di\-. 



J»\- the kindness of Mr. J. A. Kershaw, I'\E-.S., Curntor of 

 tlu^ National Museum, a ease of Victorian J-Juj^resticke was on 

 exhibition, containing most of tiie species enumerated by Mr. 

 Goudie, as well as a specimen of the " robber fly " mentioned. 



