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exhibited Anobium paniceum, the so-called bread or biscuit 

 beetle, recently found eating the poisonous seeds of Strychnos 

 nux-vomica in a suburban pharmacy. Mr. Jack exhibited a 

 strange fungus from Gawler Ranges for identification. He 

 was advised to hand it to Professor Ewart in Melbourne or to 

 the Victorian Mycological Society. The President exhibited 

 two species of Gasteropoda : — (1) Cyprcea umbilicata, Sowerby, 

 in Tankerville's Catalogue. Later this was regarded as a 

 monstrosity of C. tigris, Linn., and then of G. pantherina, 

 Linn. Afterwards a number were found at Barren Island 

 by Gunn, a Tasmanian, and proved it to be a valid species. He 

 also exhibited specimens taken by the Commonwealth trawler 

 in the Great Australian Bight, which were more globular 

 than the type, and lacked the peculiar projection of the 

 anterior part of the aperture found in the more eastern 

 examples, and had a rich uniform apricot colour on the base. 

 He proposed to call the western examples exhibited G. umbili- 

 cata, var. armeniaca, Verco. (2) Scaphella fulgetrum, Gray. 

 The exhibited series of this beautiful shell contained speci- 

 mens from as far east as Kingston, and others dredged as far 

 west as the longitude of Eucla. It showed remarkable varia- 

 tions, some shells being unicolored and some having spot- 

 bands or lightning marks, or spiral-bands, either alone or in 

 conjunction. It also included both macromorphic and micro- 

 morphic forms. 



Paper. — "Notes on Recurrent Transgressions of the Sea 

 near Dry Creek," by Walter Howchin, F.G.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, August 8, 1912. 



The Vice-President (Walter Rutt, C.E.) in the chair. 



Election. — Captain S. A. White, "Weetunga," Fulham, 

 was elected a Fellow. 



Nominations. — Hugh Corbin, B.Sc, Lecturer in 

 Forestry, Adelaide University, and J. Desmond, veterinary 

 surgeon, Adelaide, as Fellows. 



Exhibits. — Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited ant commensals, 

 including species of Saragus, Trox, Histeridce, Staphylinidce, 

 and Chlamydopsis ; also a hippoboscid fly from a wallaby. 

 Mr. F. R. Zietz exhibited a large sub-fossil, Turbo stamineus, 

 Martyn, from the travertine limestone at Brentwood, Yorke 

 Peninsula. 



Paper. — ''Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with 

 Descriptions of New Genera and Species," by the late Canon 

 Blackburn, B.A. Communicated by Mr. A. M. Lea. 



Ordinary Meeting, September 12, 1912. 

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

 chair. 



