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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



FoK 1880-81. 



Oedinaey Meetixct, Not. 2, 1880. 



Mr. T. Hakey in the chair. 



Messrs. Sydney C. Holder, University Scholar, and Eichard 

 S. Eogers, University Scholar, were elected Associates. 



The list o£ donations to the Library was read. 



Mr. Stieling Smeaton (for Mr. Chas. Todd, C.M.G-.,) pro- 

 duced specimens of Camponotus inflatus, Lubbock, from 

 Barrow's Creek, Central Australia, and read, from " Crooke's 

 Quarterly Journal of Science," some interesting particulars 

 concerning an allied species named Mijrmecocystus Mexicanus. 



Professor Tate, F.Gr.S., said there were only two known 

 species of these honey- secreting ants in the world — one was 

 found in Mexico, and the other in Australia. The habits of 

 the two species were in every way identical, some ants in the 

 case of each being set apart to store honey for the rest of the 

 community, and, as Sir John Lubbock remarked, they were 

 veritable honey-pots. 



Mr. STiELixa Smeatox also produced a species of 

 Pennatulidae, found cast upon the sea-beach near Marino. It 

 most nearly resembled the Sarcoptilus of Grey, but differed in 

 having polyps on both sides of the pinnules. 



Mr. P. G. Wateehou^e, C.M.Z.S., on behalf of the Governors 

 of the South Australian Institute Museum, exhibited a series 

 of land, estuarian, and marine shells collected at the Aru 

 Islands by Mr. F. W. Andrews in an expedition to Xew 

 Guinea carried out by Mr. — "White, of the Eeedbeds, near 

 Adelaide, South Australia. 



