THE 
Australtan Paturayf 
Vou. Il. APRIL 7, 1910. 
Orpinary Merrinc.—The ordinary meeting xd 
the Board Room, 82 Pitt-street, on Thursday, 3rd February, 
1910, Mr. J. R. Garland, M.A., Vice-President, in the 
chair. 
Camp.—Announcement was made of a proposal to hold 
a Camp at Narrabeen during the Easter holidays, and mem- 
bers willing to take part were asked to hand in their names. 
Orpinary Mrxrtinc.—The ordinary meeting was held at 
82 Pitt-street, on Wednesday, 9th March, the President, Mr. 
W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S., in the chair. 
Bustness.—Microscopes having been brought by Messrs. 
Garland, Gurney, Rainbow, and Finckh, a number of sub- 
jects were exhibited in turn, and explained by the several 
gentlemen. named. 
Paper.—Mr. R. H. Cambage, F.L.S., read a paper 
on ‘‘Botany in Relation to Geology and Physiography.”’ 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 
Mr. W. W. Froaearr exhibited a curious Australian fly 
and, in doing so, remarked that some honey-comb was received 
from Mr. 8. 8. Hart, Myamily, Condobolin, which, instead 
of young bees, contained the pupal cases of a Syrphid fly, 
which had evidently devoured the young bees and pupated 
in the cells. This remarkable looking fly, Sphryximorpha 
australis, Macq., mimics, to a wonderful degree, the form and 
colouration of one of our common clay-nest wasps (Odynerus 
sp.) The outward wasp-like appearance of this fly may enable 
it to enter the bee hive, whereas if it were not so disguised, 
it would be seized and killed by the bees. 
The weevil (Huthyrrihnus meditabundus, Fab.), fre- 
quents the stems of the Bangalow palms which have been 
