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F.E.S. "Synonymic Notes on a Recent Catalogue of Cicadidae 

 in the South Australian Museum," by Howard Ashton 

 (communicated by A. M. Lea, F.E.S.) . "A Further Com- 

 parison of the Sizes of the Red Cells of some Australian 

 Vertebrates," by J. Burton Cleland, M.D., Ch.M. 'Notes 

 on the Amycterides in the South Australian Museum, with 

 Descriptions of New Species, Part II.," by Eustace W. 

 Ferguson, M.B., Ch.M. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 13, 1915. 



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



With reference to the republication without acknowledg- 

 ment of plates already published in the Society's Transactions, 

 the Council reported as follows: — ''That the Council recom- 

 mend that no action be taken in the present case ; that a 

 sub-committee, consisting of the President, the Editor, Prof. 

 Chapman, and the Hon. Secretary, consider By-law Section 

 III., and report to the Council what, if any, alterations in the 

 same are advisable." 



Nomination. — D. F. Laurie, Department of Agriculture,, 

 was nominated as a Fellow. 



Exhibits. — Mr. E. R. Waite exhibited casts of a shark 

 and a snake, the former in plaster and the latter in gelatine 

 containing some sawdust. He had introduced the practice of 

 using painted casts in lieu of stuffed specimens twenty years 

 ago in Sydney, plaster being used where rigidity is needed 

 and gelatine where flexibility is desirable, so that the specimens 

 may be placed in natural positions. He had been obliged to 

 modify the gelatine formula to cope with the extremes of 

 temperature in Adelaide. Mr. A. M. Lea showed living 

 specimens and pupa cases of Pajnlio anactus from the experi- 

 mental farm at Berri, this being its first record as South 

 Australian ; also a beautiful tiger beetle from Adelaide, which 

 fed after dark upon flies, consuming the hard as well as the 

 soft parts; also the larva of a praying mantis ; also a majority 

 of the insects collected by Captain S. A. White on ,his recent 

 trip to the Everard and Musgrave Ranges. Mr. Edwin: 

 AsHBY exhibited a moth of an unknown species ; also a very 

 large and perfect specimen of the rare shell Vohifa bednalli; 

 also the following birds from near Pine Creek, Northern 

 Territory, with related species from other localities for 

 comparison, viz. : — Seisura in quiet a nana, Gould (Little Rest- 

 less Fly-catcher) ; Cissomela pectoralis, Gould (Banded Honey- 

 eater), a series showing all steps of plumage from the immature 

 cinnamon-coloured to the adult black-and-white : Co7iopophila 

 rufuc/ularis, Gould (Red-throated Honey-eater), Stigmatops 

 indistincta media, Mathews (Wyndham least Honey-eater) ; 



