iv Minutes of Proceedings. 
There is very considerable variety in this Torrubia, not only as 
regards length and thickness but also in shape, some examples being: 
only slightly curved or bent, while others are more or less twisted 
and contorted. The expanded extremity, which is the fructification 
of the fungus, is of most variable form, from a very elongate club to- 
a short and blunt one, and thence presenting gradations to the exact 
_shape of a fig, sometimes with a cup-like depression on the summit. - 
In four cases the extremity is forked into two quite distinct heads 
of fructification, while in three others there are two completely 
separate specimens of the fungus attached near each other on the 
thorax of the grub. 
Accompanying this Torrubia attached to the beetle larva, Mr. - 
Alston found a manure-inhabiting fungus of very similar aspect (of 
which specimens are exhibited), and he suggests that the latter may 
possibly be another form of the same plant that attacks the grubs. 
Most parts of the world have yielded Yorrubza parasitic or insects, 
but I am not aware of any case previously recorded from South 
Africa. Indeed, the only notice of one in any part of Africa that 
I happen to have seen is the instance of a wasp inhabiting Senegal, 
mentioned by Mr. M. C. Cooke (Fungi, ete., p. 218—1875).” 
Mr. Péringuey exhibited specimen of a wasp killed in the act of 
paralysing a large spider and taking it to its burrow, as an illustration 
of his Presidential address delivered 1890, August 28. 
The Secretary read Mr. H. C. Schunke’s paper on “The Physical - 
Geography and Ethnology of the Transkeian Territories.” 
A vote of thanks to Mr. Schunke closed the proceedings. 
Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1891. 
Mr. Prerincuty, F.E.S., PRESIDENT, IN THE CHarR. 
Mr. Wilson Moore exhibited some specimens of gold quartz from the 
neighbourhood of Pietersburg, Transvaal. The gold was visible in 
very large lamellae. 
The Rev. G. H. R. Fisk read a letter from the Secretary of the 
Zoological Society of London asking that some Mantichora, alive, 
might be sent for the insect house in the Zoological Gardens. 
The President read some notes on migratory locusts at the ‘Cape, and 
enlarged on the importance of parasitic insects in checking their number.. 
