x Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 



Mr. Lounsburg exhibited specimens of a Coccid, Orthcsia insignis y 

 newly discovered in the Colony, although known in Natal for several 

 years. It might prove to be a very destructive pest. 



He also exhibited specimens of another Coccid of the genus 

 Margarodes, which attacks the vines here as it does in Chili. The 

 damage hitherto done out here is, however, not very serious, 

 whereas in Chili it is said to be very great. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, April 27, 1898. 



Thomas Stewart, F.G.S., M.I.C.E., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Arthur Edwards was nominated for election as ordinary 

 member. Colonel Trotter, the Eev. P. N. Waggett, and Messrs. 

 W. Fick, E. O. F. Churchill, and D. Tennant were duly elected 

 ordinary members of the Society. 



The following additions to the Library were announced : 

 Neujahrsblatt herausg. v. d. Naturforsch. Gesellschaft., 1898, C. 



Zurich. 

 Vierteljahrsschrift d, Naturf. Gesellsch. in Zurich, Parts 3, 4, 



1897, pub. 1898. 

 The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. XIX., No. 3, 1898. 

 Memoiras y Eevista de la Socied. Cientific, 'Antonio Alzate/ 



Parts 5-12, 1896-97. 

 Eeport of the Sixty-seventh Meeting of the British Association, 



held at Toronto, August, 1897. London, 1898. 

 Tuberculosis and the Public Health, by G. L. Mullins, M.A., M.D. 



Sydney, 1898. 

 Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Vol. V., 



Part 4, 1898. 

 New South Wales Department of Mines and Agriculture : Notes 



on Chronic Iron Ore, by J. C. Carne ; Notes on the Occurrence 



of Tungsten Ores in New South Wales, by T. E. Carne. 

 Liversidge, A. Five papers read at the Australasian Association 



for the Advancement of Science. Brisbane, 1895. 

 Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vol. IX., Nos. 83, 84, 



1898. 

 Dr. Corstorphine read Mr. F. F. Churchill's paper on " The 

 Geology of the Drakensberg." 



