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sp. An ant coming in contact with the web was at first 

 caught, and held, but on the spider trying to secure tlic ant 

 it was itself caught and carried off. 



Mr. E. Cox referred to his recent experience while fishing 

 in the Goulburn River, near Nagambie, when he had taken 

 several Cat-fish, Copidiglanis tandanns, Mitch., in the river, 

 whereas he had hitherto taken them only in the lagoons. 



Mr. W. Ingram gave an account of his observations on the 

 flight of a pair of Flying Phalangers at Marysville. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. Chapman, A. L.S.— Flexible sandstone, from Delhi, 

 India ; de-vitrified bottle glass and window glass, from great 

 fire at Chicago, 1871 ; perlitic structure in Canada Balsam. 



By Mr. E. Cox. — Nodules of iron pyrites and gypsum from 

 Torquay, Victoria. 



By Mr. F. Cudmore. — ^Limestone, with shells and corals of 

 Janjukian age, from Ooldea and Watson, on the East-West 

 railway, South Australia ; several unusually large specimens 

 of Ancilla, sp., from the Turritella bed at Table Cape, Tas- 

 mania ; Janjukian fossils from the lower bed at Table Cape— 

 viz., Thamnastraa sera, Duncan, a large fossil coral character- 

 istic of the Janjukian formation ; palate teeth of the extinct 

 shark, Asteracanthus eoccenicus, Tate, sp. ; teeth of extinct 

 shark, Carcharodon auriculatus, Agg, sp. ; rostral tooth of 

 Pristis Cudmorei, Chapman, first record for Tasmania — all 

 collected in January last ; rostrum of a recent saw-fish, Pristis, 

 sp., and of Pristis Cudmorei, Chap., from the Kalimnan of Beau- 

 maris, Victoria, collected 1913 — first record south of equator. 



By Miss C. C. Currie. — -Photograph of a bunch of the Spotted 

 Orchid, Dipodinin piinclatum, gathered at Lardner ; also photo- 

 graph of nest of Striated Tit-Warbler, Acanthiza lincata, 

 situated in a flower-garden near a house — a most unusual 

 position. 



By Mr. P. C. Morrison. — Photographs of Grass-trees, 

 Xanthorrhrca Tateana, taken at Kangaroo Island, South Aus- 

 tralia ; specimens of grass-tree resin, commonly known as 

 " yacca gum " or " gum acaroidcs," from Kangaroo Island ; 

 Lamp Shell, Magellania ftnvescens, and seven species of Cliiton, 

 from Kangaroo Island. 



By Mr. A. L. Scott. — -Molybdenite, from Everton, Victoria ; 

 micro-slide and hand specimen of basalt, from Darebin ("reek. 



By Mr. F. P. Spry. — -Specimen and nest of Potter Wasp, 

 Eumenes hicincta, Sauss., from Broadmeadows. 



By Mr. A. J. 'Tadgell. — Specimen of Stick-case Caterpillar, 

 Giketicus {Metura) clon^atus, which was found to have " walked " 

 thirty-five feet from the rose-bush from which it cut the sticks 



