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The Queensland Naturalist. 
July, 1920 
October 19, 1919— Lecture by Mr. H. E. Finckh on 
“Aquaria.” Many excellent lantern slides screened of 
aquaria and their inhabitants, including a number of native 
fish. 
October 20, 1919 — Lecture by Mr. W. H. Dudley Le 
Souef : “Birds of the Southern Seas.” 
1920 — During the current year different meetings have 
been devoted to special subjects, and a system has been 
instituted under which exhibits relating to a paper are 
inspected after the reading, instead of at the conclusion of 
the business. Lectures have been given as follows ; — March : 
“ Vegetation of South-Eastern Queensland,” Mr. C. T.. 
White; April: “Birds of the Southport District,” Mr. G. 
H. Barker; May: “Reptiles of Australia,” Mr. H. A. 
Longman; June: “Form and Colouration among Insects,” 
Mr. R. Illidge. Excursions have been held to Samford 
(March), Southport (Easter), Mount Glorious (May), and 
Goodna (June). 
The hon. secretaries of the Club have been- — Messrs. C. 
T. White (1917), H. W. Hermann (1918-19), and H. L.. 
I’ottenger (1920). The lastnamed retired in June, and a, 
successor will shortly be appointed. Mr. C. D. Gillies, 
immediate ex-President, left for Melbourne early in the 
year, and has since been appointed the Club's representative 
in Victoria. 
TRANSACTIONS. 
TFIE STORY OF A LITTLE FLY.* 
By W. R. COLLEDGE. 
Facts are sometimes stranger than fiction. Evidence 
of this may be found in our creeks. Just where the water' 
rushes most rapidly, leaving lines of bubbling foam, tlie 
unexpected may be found in the shape of a little Simulium 
dy. 
Little larger than a midge, it actually chooses this part 
of wildly rushing water for the purpose of depositing its 
tiny eggs. Dipping its abdomen below the surface, near the 
edge of the water, it deposits on a submerged leaf or stone 
a number of regularly laid eggs, which are attached by a 
Simulium sp.; a Quecnalaml mejnber of a large and well-disirihuted genus. In America 
a species causes trouble among birds, and in Kiiiope another variety is cha»-ged with 
damage to cattle. 'I’he specie.s under review is fairly common m South Queen.sland ; 
it was first recorded on a Field Naturali.sts’ Club e.vcur.ston a few years ago. — Kds. 
