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of the HepialidiH. J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., exhibited Pomaderris 

 vaciniifolia, new for South Australia, and collected on the hill tops 

 bounding the River Torrens Gorge. Maurice Holtze, F.L.S., 

 showed specimens of maize in which the male flowers had taken 

 on the characters of the female, and vice versa. 



Ballot.— Thomas James, M.R.C.S., Eng., and W. T. Bednall 

 were elected Fellows. 



Papers. — " The Blattarite of Australia and Polynesia," by 

 J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. " The Mirrn-Yong Heaps at Morgan, 

 South Australia," l)y R. Etheridge, jun., F.G.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 4, 1893. 



Prof. Tate, F.G.S., F.L.S., (President), in the chair. 



Ballot. — R. H. Perks, M.D., was elected a Fellow. 



Exhibits. — J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., showed a new parasite 

 {Tlialpochares dubia, Butler) of the black scale, Lecamum 

 testudo. Prof. Tate, F.G.S., exhibited for Mr. Marsh, of Broken 

 Hill, N.S.W., a new mineral of iodide of copper, which Prof. 

 Liversidge had named " Marshite." Oswald Lower, F.Ent.S., 

 forwarded specimens of Morpho Sulkowskyi, a Brazilian 

 ])utterfly. 



Motion. — It was carried "that the Council of the Society 

 make enquiries of the Queensland Government as to whether 

 Mr. F. M. Bailey, the Government Botanist, is authorised by it 

 to write a continuation of or supplement to the " Flora Aus- 

 traliensis," of Bentham and Mueller, and that in the event of a 

 reply being recei'^ed in the affirmative, that the Council be 

 instructed to protest against the assumption of the title for the 

 proposed work. 



Papers. — ^" Description of a New Mineral (Stibiotantalite)," 

 by G. A. GoYDER, F.C.S. " Description of a New Genus, and 

 Five Species of Australian Nitidulid^e and Colydiida^," by 

 E. Grouvelle. " Descriptions of New Australian Coleoptera," 

 by Rev. Thomas Blackburn, B.A. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 2, 1893. 



Prof. Tate, F.G.S., F.L.S. (President), in the chair. 



Exhibits. — Prof. Tate, F.G.S., exhibited a collection of 

 Silurian Fossils, from the MacDonnell ranges, forwarded by 

 Mr. Thornton, comprising fifteen species. R. W. Chapman, M. A., 

 brought under the notice of the meeting a collection of 

 electrical breath - figures prepared by himself, together with 

 photographs of the same. 



