ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXV. 



boroniaefolia and Boronia microphylla; 7. Cryptocarya patentinervis and Acer 

 philippinum; 8. Scmtalum obtusifoUum and Gaiadendron ligttstrina. 



Mr. A. S. Le Souef exhibited a live specimen of Conilurus conditor, the 

 house-building rat, specimens of which were procured on the Nullarbor Plains 

 and have since bred in Taronga Park. 



ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 26th July, 1922. 



Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that Mr. B. T. Baker, having retired from active 

 participation in scientific work, had resigned from the Council of the Society 

 and expressed, on behalf of members, appreciation of Mr. Bakei-'s services to 

 the Society as a member of Council for twenty-five years. 



The President also announced the death, on 23rd July, of Mr. J. E. Carne, 

 late Government Geologist of N.S.W., who had been a. member of the Society 

 since 1899, and a member of Council from 1913-1921. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting 

 (28th June, 1922), amounting to 7 Vols., 100 Parts or Nos., 6 Bulletins, 5 Reports 

 and 1 Pamphlet, etc., received from 49 Societies and Institutions and 2 private 

 donors were laid upon the table. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. Description of New Australasian Blattidae, witli a Note on the Blattid 

 Coxa. By A. Eland Shaw, M.B.C.S., F.E.S. 



2. A remarkable new GaU-thrips from Australia. By H. H. Karny, Ph.D. 

 (Communicated by W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.). 



3. A New Australian Termite. By G. F. Hill, F.E.S. 



4. Notes on Australian Tabanidae, Part ii. By E. W. Ferguson, M.B., 

 Ch.M., and G. F. Hill, F.E.S. 



5. Studies in Symbiosis, ii. The Apogeotropic Roots of Macrosamia 

 spiralis and their physiological Significance. By J. McLuckie, M.A., D.Sc. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. J. J. Fletcher called attention to Mr. Kinghorn's illustration of, and 

 remarks on, an Indian Bulbul (Otocompsa emeria) in the Australian Museuioi 

 Magazine for July, 1922; and reported that he had recently noticed one doing 

 exactly what a Fan-tailed Cuckoo had done a few days before — alight on a 

 stake in the garden a few yards from a wall covered with Virginian Creeper, 

 fly up and catch a caterpillar of the Vine Moth, and return to the stake to 

 finish his repast. 



Dr. C. Anderson, Australian Museum, exhibited portions of the lower jaw of 

 Diprotodon, found by Mr. Edward Saunders on Cuan Creek, about 14 miles 

 west of Scone. The bones, which are remarkably fresh, were discovered at the 

 base of a bank of gravel and earth about 25 feet high, which is being undercut 

 by the creek. We are indebted to Canon F. Cadell, of Scone, for calling at- 

 tention to this find. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited (1) a Lorantlius, parasitic on a Black 

 Cypress Pine (CalUtris sp.) growing on a ridge about seven miles from Scone, 

 which is thickly infested with the Indian Wax-Scale Geroplastes ceriferus. This 

 loranth is killing out a number of these cypress pines, and a great number of the 



