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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



^ogaI(§onctp of §oitth ^U0tralm, 



For 1897-98. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 2, 1897. 



\V. L. Cleland, M.B. (President), in chair. 



Exhibits. —J. G. Tepper, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of an 

 Aleurodid, Trioza sp., on Sterculia-leaves from Botanic Garden, 

 The larvse emit white waxy threads and coat surface of leaves 

 with sugary fluid, which if not removed by ants or in other ways 

 render plants sickly. Also some peach-tree aphis (Myzus cerasi), 

 remarking they were diflicult to remove by spraying. Also 

 specimen of tick (Ixodes muralia), presented by Mr. Wirtheimer, 

 and taken from a snake skin sent to him from Queensland. A. 

 Zeitz, Assistant-Director of the Museum, made some remarks 

 upon Alexandra Parrot {Spaihopierus Alexajidrce) from Glen 

 Edith, N.T., which had bred in captivit}^, but had not reared 

 their young. Prof. Tate showed herbarium specimens of Poly- 

 podium proliferu7n, new for South Australia, from Cournamount, 

 River Murray. Collected by the Rev. Henry T. Hull, of Mount 

 Pleasant, who remarks that " there is no doubt of its occurrence 

 in a wild state. On a recent visit I saw hundreds, if not even 

 thousands, of plants" (25/10/97). 



Ballot.— W. G. Torr, LL.D., M.A., B.C.L., was elected a 

 Fellow. 



Papers. — "A Newly - discovered Cambrian Trilobite from 

 Yorke's Peninsula," by R. Etheridge, Jun. " Description of 

 New Mollusca," by Professor Tate. 



Ordinary Meeting, DecExMber 7, 1897. 

 W. L. Cleland, M.B. (President), in the chair. 

 Exhibits. — W. Howchin, F.G.S., exhibited and described 

 palaeolithic implements from the brick-earths of Sussex, and 



