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salt water, the only case he knew of beetles in a salt-water 

 habitat, although several mosquitoes and some true bugs 

 were found in the open ocean. Dr. Cooke showed photo- 

 graphs of remains of ovens of aboriginals, which had been 

 revealed by the shifting of the covering sand. They consisted 

 of groups of stones on which, when heated, the food had been 

 cooked. Several Fellows referred to similar finds, and Mr. 

 Howchin stated that he had recovered fragments of emu eggs 

 from an aboriginal kitchen-midden near Hallett's Cove. 



Papers. — "Revision of the Genus Stigmodera," by H. J. 

 Carter, B.A., F.E.S.; "Notes on the Lord Howe Island 

 Phaama, and on an Associated Longicorn Beetle," by A. M. 

 Lea, F.E.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, July 13, 1916. 



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

 chair. 



Nomination.- — Harold Gordon Darling, merchant, was 

 nominated as Fellow. 



Election. — Lionel B. Bull, pathologist and bacteri- 

 ologist, Adelaide Hospital, was elected a Fellow. 



Exhibits. — Mr. E. Ashby, M.B.O.U., exhibited three 

 birds — viz., Ptilotis sonora (Singing Honey-eater), Acantho- 

 genys rufogularis (Spiny-cheeked Honey-eater), and Meli- 

 pliaga phrygia (Warty-faced Honey^eater) . The first two 

 have this June visited Blackwood in large numbers, probably 

 for the first time; the last appeared in that district twelve 

 years ago. Captain S. A. White, M.B.O.U., exhibited three 

 birds — viz., Ptiloris paradisea (Rifle Bird), from the dense 

 tropical forests of Northern Queensland; Craspedophora 

 magnifica (Lesser Rifle Bird), habitat Northern Queensland 

 and Barnard Islands; and Cicinnvnts regia (King Bird of 

 Paradise), the Goby-goby of the Aru Island natives, found 

 in New Guinea and the islands of Aru and Mysol, in the 

 thickest part of the forest and feeding on various fruits, often 

 of a large size for so small a bird. Mr. A. M. Lea, F.E.S. , 

 showed four mealy bugs, Monophlebus crawjordi, densely 

 covered with a long woolly-looking growth, which continues to 

 grow after the insect's death, being gradually forced through 

 the pores by the shrinkage of the skin, until thoroughly dry; 

 also a walking-stick insect with two horny growths on the 

 head, and a scorpion, six inches long, from the Flinders 



