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sessed a peculiar closing mechanism half-way down the tube- 

 Mr. Tepper showed photographs of the sun taken during 

 the recent eclipse ; also, a wood-boring buprestid larva, in- 

 festing mallee roots; also, a brenthid-like insect, described by- 

 Lea, which lives in symbiosis with Lobopelta excisa, a Queens- 

 land ant ; also, Carabidse, from Mount Gambier. 



Paper. — "Descriptions of Australian Curculionidae, 

 Part VIII.," by A. M. Lea, F.E.S. 



Lecture. — The meeting then adjourned to the lecture- 

 room, and as the public were admitted there was an audience 

 of 150 when Dr. Pulleine gave a lantern lecture on "The 

 Trap-door and Hunting Spiders of South Australia." 



Ordinary Meeting, July 5, 1910. 



The President (J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) in the 

 chair. 



Elections. — Prof. Kerr Grant, M.Sc, E. A. Johnson, 

 M.D., M.R.C.S., E. V. Clark, B.Sc, and E. R. Stanley 

 were elected Fellows. 



Exhibits. — Mr. E. Ashby exhibited birds from South, 

 North, and East Australia and Tasmania, including parrots, 

 pittas, flycatchers, and honey-eaters. Dr. Pulleine exhibited 

 the male of C edema excavata, being the first recorded male 

 of any species of the purely Australian genus G edema. 



Paper. — "Description of a New and Extensive Area of 

 Permo- Carboniferous Glacial Deposits in South Australia," 

 by Walter Howchin, F.G.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, August 2, 1910. 



The President (J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) in the 

 chair. 



Exhibits. — Mr. J. G. O. Tepper exhibited pupa cases of 

 Inlodimorpha Bakewelli, a buprestid beetle, which had been 

 found 3 ft. below the surface at Beri Beri, on the Murray 

 River. Dr. Verco and Mr. Ashby also reported having ob- 

 tained the same insect from the southern coast of Eyre 

 Peninsula. Mr. E. Ashby exhibited a specimen of the 

 pouched mouse, Sminihopsis crassicuudatus , from Orroroo. 



Papers. — "On a New Species of Boronia," by J. H. 

 Maiden, F.L.S., and J. M. Black; "Additions to the Flora 

 of South Australia, including sixteen alien and five Aus- 

 tralian Species/' by J. M. Black ; "On the Enstatite Basalt 

 occurring at Kangaroo Island," by E. R. Stanley ; "A 

 Complete Analysis of Lherzolite and Olivine found at Mount 

 Gambier," by E..R. Stanley. The President complimented' 

 the new Fellow on the excellence of his papers. 



