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Ordinary Meeting, April 1, 1890. 



Dr. Stirling in the chair. 



Ballot. — Gregory Board, metallurgist to the Dry Creek 

 Smelting Works, was elected a Fellow, 



Exhibits. — J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., showed some aggregations 

 of sand which had the outward appearance of potatoes, found 

 amongst the roots of sedges at the Murray Bridge. It was sug- 

 gested by Professor Tate that they might be casts of the fungus, 

 Mellita australis. 



Professor Tate, F.G.S., exhibited a specimen of the Belemnit- 

 oid genus of Spiridirostra, from the Old Tertiary beds at Spring 

 Creek, near Geelong, Victoria. The genus has hitherto been 

 known only by a single species from the Turin tertiaries. The 

 species exhibited was distinct from that. 



Papers. — " Notes on Symptoms of Poisoning in Sheep by 

 Eupliorhia eremopJiila,'" by H. Sutherland; "Notes on Plants 

 from Roebuck Bay, W.A., by J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. ; "Report 

 on Plants from Central Australia, collected by W. T. Tietkins, 

 F.R.G.S.," by Baron F. von Muller and Prof essor Tate, F.G.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 6, 1890. 



Dr. Stirling in the chair. 



Ballot. — Rev. William Gray, New Hebrides, was elected a 

 Fellow; Robert Etheridge, Palaeontologist, Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, was elected an Hon. Fellow. 



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

 entomology, na^mely Antherrea Ilelence ; a parasite fly, Trachniidce, 

 on Entometa ignohilis, with its proper case, causing the premature 

 death of the latter ; specimens of Chcerocamj)a scrofa^ male and 

 female, chrysalis case and larva. The larva was forwarded from 

 Innamincka by W. Lamb. This moth is becoming much scarcer. 

 Also ChoeroccunjKi celeris, male and female, chrysalis and larva, 

 probably introduced with vines from France, on the leaves of 

 which the larva feeds. It is becoming commoner, being reported 

 by W. H. Cavenagh and F. Bevilaqua of Tanunda. The chrysalis 

 stage is from ten to sixteen days in summer, but much longer in 

 winter. Also specimens of Chcn-ocampa roseo-maculata, previously 

 only known from New South Wales, but now reported as common 

 about Adelaide, and by W, Lamb at Innamincka, feeding on 

 Convolvulus eruhescens and C. sejnum ; also another Chcero- 

 campa species, probably new, from Silverton, reported by F. A. 

 Fiveash, and from Oladdie, by H. McGregor, male and female, 

 chrysalis and larva, the latter from Innamincka (W^. Lamb), 



