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from Australia ; and some insects used by the natives as 

 food. Mr. F. R. Zietz exhibited some additional reptiles 

 collected by Captain S. A. White on his recent expedition; 

 also two females of the New Guinea parrot Eclectus pectoralis, 

 recently discovered in Queensland by Mr. McLellan, a collector 

 employed by Dr. W. Macgillivray, of Broken Hill ; also two 

 specimens of the black-tailed red-browed finch (JEgintha tem- 

 poralis macgillivrayi ) , recently discovered by the same collec- 

 tor in the same locality. Mr. E. R. Waite exhibited a cast 

 of Heloderma suspectum from Arizona, U.S.A. This is one 

 of the only two poisonous lizards known. The poison glands 

 are in the lower jaw, and consist of four independent sacs on 

 each side, opening into separate cup-like depressions. When 

 the jaw is closed both the upper and lower teeth become bathed 

 with the secretion. Mr. J. G. O. Tepper showed a mass of 

 -so-called pineapple opal from White Cliffs, being a pseudo- 

 morph of a bunch of crystals. Mr. A. G. Edquist exhibited 

 a fungus related to the edible mushroom, but phosphorescent 

 at night. Captain S. A. White showed a Goana, which had 

 swallowed a lizard too large to be taken in entirely, but which 

 it was unable to reject on account of the barb-like scales on 

 its tail, the result being the choking of the Iguana ; also nests 

 of Neositta pileata tenuirostris (slender-billed tree-runner), 

 and Petroica multicolor frontalis (southern scarlet-breasted 

 robin), both built in forks of branches, largely composed of 

 small strips of bark and covered with lichen, so as to be almost 

 indistinguishable from the branches ; also a sea-shell usually 

 found on the north and north-east coast of Australia, collected 

 in 1868, 250 miles inland west from Cleveland Bay. 



Paper. — "Additions to the Orchidaceous Plants of South 

 Australia," by R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. 



Ordinary Meeting, July 9, 1914. 



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

 chair. 



Election. — PI. M. Cornish, Coast View, Adelaide Road, 

 Glenelg, was elected a Fellow. 



Exhibits. — Mr. F. R. Zietz exhibited eighteen species of 

 birds' eggs from Antarctica, collected by Sir Douglas Maw- 

 son, and now in the South Australian Museum. Mr. A. M. 

 Lea exhibited a case of butterflies from New Guinea ; also 

 some rose aphides destroyed by small parasites, and samples 

 of the latter ; also some moths from Melville Island in illus- 

 tration of Dr. Turner's paper. Mr. A. G. Edquist showed a 

 fungus apparently developed in the burrow of a wood-borer r 

 the fungus itself being perforated by some parasite. Mr. J.. 



