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stripped from the body of a moth to cover its eggs. Dr. J. C. 

 Verco exhibited several shells of Trivia, Erato, and Ovula. 



The President intimated that as the Board of the South 

 Australian Museum contemplated publishing the results of 

 the researches of its staff, the contributions of the latter to 

 the Society's Transactions would be smaller in future. 



Papers. — "Notes on South Australian Polyplacophora, 

 with Additions to the Fauna, together with a list of Australian 

 Species, showing their Distribution in the Australian States," 

 by Edwin Ashby, M.B.O.U. ; and "Additions to the Flora of 

 South Australia, No. 13," by J. M. Black. 



Ordinary Meeting, July 11, 1918. 



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

 chair. 



Resolved on the motion of Capt. S. A. White, seconded 

 by Mr. S. Dixon : "That this Society requests the Government 

 to introduce without delay the Bill for the Incorporation of 

 Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Island, which has already been 

 drafted." 



Resolved on the motion of Mr. S. Dixon, seconded by 

 Capt. S. A. White: "That the portions of land within 

 the boundaries of the proposed Chase, at present alienated, 

 be purchased by the Government and incorporated in the 

 Chase." 



Resolved: "That the following be a committee to bring 

 these resolutions before the Government: Capt. S. A. White, 

 Mr. J. M. Black, and Mr. S. Dixon." 



Resolved: "That Capt. S. A. White represent this 

 Society on a deputation about to wait on the Minister of 

 Agriculture to urge the amendment and consolidation of the 

 Birds Protection Act, the Animals Protection Act, and the 

 Gun Act." 



Exhibits. — Mr. Walter Howchin exhibited two broken 

 examples of Turbo joarda?ii and two sea-worn opercula 

 belonging to the same species, found by Mr. Bowman, of 

 Parara, near Ardrossan. The shells, which are large examples 

 of our largest sea shells, come from a new locality, not having 

 been obtained in the Gulf before. The weathered condition 

 of the shells suggests that they may have been washed out 

 from a raised beach deposit, and would then be sub-fossil ; 

 the occurrence of Area trapezia shells on the beach, a very 

 common shell m these raised beaches, while not living in our 

 local seas at the present time, gives further probability to this 

 view. Mr. Howchin also exhibited the left valve of an Ostrea 

 hyotidoidea, obtained from the River Murray cliffs at 



