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this and another genus in the new sub-family Idiococcino'. Also 

 Inglesia foraminifer as infesting Santalum acuminatum, a New- 

 Zealand species of scale-insect, recorded for the first time as 

 occurring in South Australia. He also reported that leery a 

 Purchasi had attacked a species of Cocoloha, a leafless plant of 

 South Africa. 



Papers. — " Respecting the Anthropology of the Daly River 

 (N.T.) Aborigines," by Rev. Donald Mackillop, S.J. 



Ordinary Meeting, Auc4ust 1, 1893. 



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



Ballot. — -Rev. Donald Mackillop, S.J., was elected a Cor- 

 responding M ember. 



Exhibits. — Maurice Holtze, F.L.S. , laid on the table from the 

 Adelaide Botanic Gardens, the sheathing spathe of a leaf of Kentia 

 Wendtlandi, a Northern Territory palm, used by the aborigines 

 for making into vessels, &c., for holding water. This use is 

 limited to the locality in which the palm is indigenous. Prof 

 Tate, F.G.S., exhibited a species of EuompJiahis indicative of the 

 Silurian epoch, obtained far to the east of the MacDonnell 

 Range. Also a specimen of Turho Jourdani, a large and rare 

 marine shell, oljtained in a sub-fossilised state from the silt of 

 the Port Creek, at a depth of about 24 feet. J. G. O. Tepper, 

 F.L.S., showed a collection of the coleoptera and hymenoptera 

 from the Elder Exploring Expedition. 



Paper. — "Customs and Superstitions of the Aboriginal Tribes, 

 Gulf of Carpentaria," by W. G. Stretton, S.]M. 



Ordinary Meeting, September 5, 1893. 



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



Ballot. — W. G. Stretton, S.M., was elected a Corresponding- 

 Member. 



Exhibits. — J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., laid on the table a 

 specimen of Ccdla uEthiopica with three spathes from one stalk. 

 Also Crimim flaccidum from Wilcannia, River Darling. Also 

 Acacia pravifolia from Gawler, a new locality. J. J. East, 

 F.G.S., illustrated and described some unrecorded skeletal char- 

 acters of Coscinocyntlitis Tatei, a coral of the Arcluvocyathincf 

 family, from the Cambrian limestone, at the Elvina Mine, eleven 

 miles N.W. of Beltana. J. J. Eckert forwarded analyctical 

 drawings of Daru'inia ISchuermanni with a short biographical 

 sketch of the late Rev. C. W. Schuermann, after w^hom the plant 

 had been named by Baron F. von. Mueller in 1851 from speci- 

 mens collected at Port Lincoln, S.A. 



Paper. — "Notes on the Lacustrine Origin of the Mammal- 

 iferous Deposit at Lake Mulligan, S.A.," by Prof. Tate, F.G.S. 



