XXVI. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



loranths are thickly infested with the wax-scale, though there is not a single 

 wax-scale on the foliage or twigs of the Cypress. It looks as if this was a ease 

 where birds must have carried the scale from some other host plant. — (2) Also 

 a remarkable gall (Splvaerococcus leaii) on the Belah (Casuarina Cambagei) 

 from Trangie, N.S.W., described from Casuarinas in Western Australia, but not 

 previously found in Eastern Australia. 



ORDINARY MONl'HLY MEETING. 

 30th August, 1922. 



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



The President, on behalf of members, offered the congratulations of members 

 to Dr. W. R. Browne on having attained the degree of Doctor of Science in the 

 University of Sydney. 



A bronze example of the Medal struck on the occasion of the one hundred 

 and fiftieth Anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Belgium 

 was received from that Institution. 



The President announced that tlie Naturalists' Society of N.S.W. would hold 

 an iCxhibition of wild flowers and fauna in St. James' Hall, Phillip Street, on 

 Thursday and Friday, 7th and 8th September, afternoon and evening. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting 

 (26th July, 1922), amounting to 7 Vols., 116 Parts or Nos., 14 Bulletins, 4 Reports 

 and 2 Pamphlets, etc., received from 58 Societies and Institutions and 2 private 

 donors were laid upon the table. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. A new species of MordelUstena (Coleoptera, Mordellidae) parasitic on 

 Termites. By G. P. Hill, F.E.S. 



2. Description .of a new Phasma belonging to the genus Extatosoma. By 

 W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S. 



3. On Astacocroton, a new type of Acarid. By Professor W. A. Haswell, 

 M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. 



4. A new Nematode Parasite of a Lizard. By Vera Irwin-Smith, 

 B.Sc, F.L.S., Linnean Maeleay Fellow of the Society in Zoology. 



5. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera: Saturniadae, Bombycidae, Euptero- 

 tidae, Notondontidae. By A. J. 'IVirner, M.D., F.E.S. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. W. F. Blakely exhibited from the National Herbarium specimens of 

 Acacia juncifolia Benth., an imperfectly known species, recently collected on 

 Ramornie Station, Copmanhurst District (W. F., Blakely and D. W. C. Shiress), 

 the first definite locality for the species in this State. Bentham described the 

 phyllodia as "slightly flattened with a scarcely prominent nerve on each side." 

 In a fresh state the Ramornie specimens were filiform, perfectly terete, with 4 

 very fine nerves, and 1-2 microscopic lines between them, two of the nerves were 

 slightly more prominent than the others. When dry, the phyUodia shrivelled to 

 such an extent as to appear slightly compressed or subtetragonous-terete, more 

 or less channelled, while the nerves are scarcely distinguishable from the longi- 

 tudinal wrinkles of the phyllodia. This specimen is almost identical with one 

 from Balonne River, a cotype, and very similar to the following Queensland 

 specimens :— Crow's Nest (Dr. F. II. Kenny), Eight Mile Plain (F. M. Bailey), 



