Marine Bioloiiy ami Entomology Group 



J February. 1071 

 I he meeting was chaired by Mr. R. 

 Condam: 18 members, being in atlcn- 



'Mrs. Zilluh I ce announced lhal the 

 Preston Junior Club would he staging a 

 nature show ill Northlands Centre 

 Court shopping Celine at some dale in 

 ,he neai future, and asked lor help 

 twill exhibits front the Group. Help 

 n;, s offered by .several nicnihei . and 

 Mrs. I ee said lhat. provided the show 

 tiu a success this, year it will be a 

 regular feature in the years 10 come 

 Di. Brian Smith announced that 



Museum Memoirs" as from the next 

 nubffcaUoit. would go on sale A report 

 „i the Wesiei tipoit Survey will be pub- 

 lished shortly (fart 2 No. 32): Ihe 

 pnee lo be announced. Dr. Brian Smith 

 J..,, announced that the Krai Mt 



Aotk-in" for this year 

 SaMPrJay, » bebruary at .. 

 Subsequent meetings to be held un 13 

 March. 14 April. 22 May. IV June and 

 17 July 

 fxhilm: 



MfftJ MvLUKH—^UHO of a moth of 

 Ihe AMhulWflS fotnity irom hei gulden 

 in l ast Malvern. 



Miv, White— Some slug-, laken Irom 

 llickotv VVatde al lake Mountain— 

 ( tusader Bugs on Acacia frofTI Pdilh- 

 valv and some leal hoppers also front 

 Ktli th vale. 



Wr Kcltv some drowned beetles 

 frjcirri his swimming pool at Ivanhoe 

 an which some small agnatic larvae 

 ap|>cnred to be feeding. 



\h \/,-/»».-.s— wh.u lie thought might 

 be a species of Ostiaeod taken from 

 Walet at ( .inn River Mt, Mclnncs said 



l rut these, if they were Ostracods, were 

 larger than those he knew of 



Mr. K. Sitting — microscope slide of 

 a small wasp which emerged from a 

 gall taken from a Silver Wattle tree 



Mr. GiiJ\tarJ--:i tiger moth, family 

 Arctiidae. probably Ardkes GUiti.vnyi. 

 found resting on concrete at I'arkvillc. 



Mr. Cimdron — some snails which Mi. 

 Sctford had eivcn him Iroir. Dimboola. 

 Mr. long identified these as Hrlurllu 



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lit from 



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introduced 

 ope found in Wi>t 

 th Australia. Also Iw 

 icrllics-Maclcuy's Swul 

 'im Mm U><]\/imit) ta 

 nnii Buang. and 4m , 

 Tcittoniu (Capet While I laken at Box 

 Hill. 



Mr: Im a I lololfuinun washed rip 

 on the beach at Somers in early Nov- 

 ember Dr. Brian Smith thought il was 

 B deep water species. 



Mr Kelly showed a series of cnltiin 

 transparencies of the beetle family 

 < /in-wwei/f/W— I.eaf-cating beetles. M 



Kelly gav 



e\plainiii 

 matclv 

 Slides sh 



Ail. CIO 



talk 



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shown, and 



) the 

 ne approxi- 

 Ihe family, 

 enus Pero/i- 

 .1 beautiful 

 dso its life 



species 

 cycle. 



Dr. Smith showed slides of a Genus 

 of shells. He explained that H> specie- 

 of these were niigini.llv listed, bw thai 

 Ihcv had now been re-classified leaving 

 only M> sptsies. This is the Tnton 

 family which is preduceous on star 

 hsh and as Mich is important as il 

 helps (0 reduce the numbers of the 

 Crown of Thorns starfish, taking ol 

 these shells is now banned 



Geology Group Kxcursm.u 



Sunday. 14 March - Deep Creek Gorge. Ki.ll.i leader. Mi. G«*SC tarlm 



Sunday, 10 April — ETWon District. I.eadci. Mi TWU Sault. 



Transport is by private cur. Spare seats arc usually available for those without 

 ihjfl awn liansport. l-.xciirsions leave from the western end of Flinders Street 

 Buftn u-npovie the t .l A Building) at 0.30 .. n. 



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