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scribed Species, referable to the genera Meroglossa, Halictus, Nomia, Crocisa, 
Anthophora, Coelioxys, Megachile, and Trigona. The Solomon Islands evi- 
dently possess a strong Indo-Malayan element, but Mr. Froggatt’s collection 
brings out the interesting fact that there is also a genuinely Australian ele- 
ment, the most striking representative of which is Meroglossa, now for the 
first time recorded from outside Australia. — 2) Revision of Pterohelaeus 
(continued) and of Saragus, with Descriptions of new Species of Australian 
Tenebrionidae. By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. — The present paper 
continues the tabulation of the described species of Pterohelaeus, with notes 
on synonymy and distribution, together with descriptions of five new species, 
bringing the total up to 82. A tabulation of the species Saragus is also 
given, with notes and synonymy, and descriptions of five new species, in- 
creasing the total to 55. Sixteen new species of other groups of the Tene- 
brionidae are described, including two,.for which new genera are proposed. 
— 3) Revision of Australian Tortricina (concluded). By E. Meyrick, B.A., 
F.R.S., Corresponding Member. — The concluding portion of the revision 
deals with the two Families Eucosmidae (19 genera, 149 species) and 
Chlidanotidae (2 genera, 3 species). The former is very largely developed 
throughout the northern hemisphere, but is less conspicuous in Africa and 
South America, whilst in Australia and New Zealand it is much inferior in 
numbers to the Tortricidae. The real extent of its inferiority is, however, 
partially disguised by the number of species of Indo-Malayan type (especially 
in the genus Argyroploce) which have penetrated into Queensland. The family 
Chlidanotidae is a curious one, comprising at present only a few small 
genera of Indo-Malayan origin. 
Abstract of Proceedings. June 28th, 1911. — Mr. Gurney exhibited 
a complete series of specimens illustrating the life-history of an indigenous 
Braconid wasp (Opius tryoni Cameron), a parasite of the Queensland Fruit- 
fly (Dacus tryont) — the first parasite of fruit-flies recorded from Australia. 
He showed also a specimen of the wasp bred from one of two larvae of the 
introduced Mediterranean Fruit-fly (Ceratitis capitata) in a peach—the first 
and only case of this association which had come under his notice. The 
Queensland fruit-fly is known to attack four kinds of native fruits, and is 
now taking to Citrus-fruits. The wasp has only a fluctuating value in 
checking its natural host at present; but ifit can be encouraged to give more 
attention to the introduced host, it.may render most useful service to fruit- 
growers. — Mr. A. R. McCulloch exhibited, by permission of the Curator 
of the Australian Museum, speciments of Leiuranus semicinctus Lay and 
Bennett, and Canthigaster bennetti Bleeker, which he had collected at Murray 
Island, Torres Strait. Neither of these fishes appears to have been previously 
recorded from Australia, though both are well known from the East Indian 
Archipelago and the Pacific Ocean. — Mr. Froggatt exhibited specimens 
of the Kurrajong Star-Psylla, Tyora sterculiae Froggatt, upon a pot-plant, 
showing the curious filaments produced by the larvae on the leaves. Also 
specimens of parasitic Hymenoptera, in illustration of Mr. Cameron’s 
paper. — Mr. North, by permission of the Curator of the Australian 
Museum, sent for exhibition, a series of skins of the Plumed Bronze-wing, 
or ‘‘Spinifex Pigeon,” Lophophaps plumifera Gould, from various localities 
in North-western Australia, Central Australia, Northern Queensland, and 
South Australia. Immature birds are much paler than adults, and have a less 
