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from Flinders Island new to science, viz., Falco melan- 

 otis, Sericornis fiindersi, M alums samueli, and M. melan- 

 otus whitei. Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a miscellaneous 

 collection of insects, comprising (1) Blind beetles; (2) 

 beetles found in ant's nests; (3) flies, parasites, bugs, 

 ticks, and mites from opossums' nests; (4) two of tbe 

 largest flies known in Australia, which lived on beetles; (5) a 

 blow-fly with pseudo-scorpion attached ; (6) flies which con- 

 gregate in clusters as large as a cricket-ball; also samples of 

 potato attacked by Irish blight. Dr. Pulleine exhibited 

 foliage and inflorescence of Pisonia hrunoniana, a tree grow- 

 ing to a height of 60 or 70 ft., which forms the principal flora 

 of coral-sand islands. The inflorescence, being very sticky, is 

 probably the means by which the tree is transported from 

 island to island by the terns which frequent them. Dr. E. A. 

 Johnson exhibited ecto-parasites from a shark; also Afraplex 

 cinerium (native spinach), an edible plant having roots over 

 20 ft. long; also granite stones frora Birdseye Island, polished 

 on the upper-side only, a fact which he suggested to be due 

 to the action of the feet of birds upon the excreta dropped 

 thereon ; also a flint from Cape Banks, a so-called biscuit stone 

 from the South-East, a black beetle with a spine on the centre 

 of its back, known as the biscuit beetle ; and, mounted as a 

 microscopical slide, a section of a lymphoid lump asserted to 

 be from the intestines of Napoleon Bonaparte. 



Papers. — ''Notes and Tabulation of the Australian 

 Amarygminae (Family Tenebrionidse) , with descriptions of 

 twenty-five new species," by H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S., 

 communicated by A. M. Lea, F.E.S. ; "The Flowering and 

 Fruiting of Pectinella antarctica (Cymodocea antarctica),'* 

 by J. M. Black; ''A New Genus of Chalcidoid Hymenoptera 

 of the Family Mymaridse, from Tasmania," by A. A. 

 GiRAULT, communicated bv A. M. Lea, F.E.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 8, 1913. 



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

 chair. 



Lister Memorial Fund. — Letter from the hon. secretary 

 of the fund, soliciting subscriptions for the purpose of (1) 

 placing a medallion of Lord Lister in Westminster Abbey; 

 (2) erecting a more conspicuous monument in some public 

 place in London, and (3) forming an endowment fund to give 

 grants in aid of researches bearing on surgery, or rewards for 

 important contributions to surgical science. 



Election. — H. J. Carter, B.A., Sydney, as a Corres- 

 ponding Member. 



