THE f AS 
Hustralian Waturalist. 
Vor. IL. OCTOBER 3, 19168. VIGBA La" 
ae : r 
NOTE.—Members having any mattey of interest suitable for publication 
in these pages ave vequested to communicate with the Editor. 
ORDINARY MEETINGS. 
6th June, 1916.—The President, Mr. W. W. Frog- 
‘gatt, in the chair, and about 40 present. : 
On the motion of the Hon. Secretary, it was agreed 
that a committee, consisting of Messrs. HE. S. Edwards, 
M.A., C. H. Wickham, and Miss Le Plastrier, be ap- 
pointed to organise the monthly excursions. 
Mr. Shiress drew attention to a male of Monophlebus 
Crawfordi, a mealy bug coecid, collected at Hornsby, and 
its resemblance, in miniature, to a Bird of Paradise, Mr. 
A. A. Hamilton, a series of botanical specimens collected: 
at Port Hacking during the Haster excursion. Mr. Wick- 
ham, the larve of a cup moth (Lymacodidae), hair 
moss collected at Gordon, and a fine series of the flowers 
of Cobea scandens. Mr. lL. Gallard, a finely displayed 
series of useful and destructive insects. Miss Froggatt, a 
stick insect (Hxtatosoma tiaratum), on rose bush, illus- 
trating protective coloration. 
~The President invited discussion on the nomencla- 
ture of the Australian birds in Gregory Matthews’ work, 
recently published. In this work, which has been  fol- 
lowed by some ornithologists, the old genera have been 
cast out in a most reckless manner, and great numbers 
are treated as sub-species, with a third or sub-specific 
name. Thus, our well-known Little Masked Swallow, 
which we know as Artamus personatus, now masquerades 
under the new name of “Cambellorinus personalus mun- 
nia.’ The Spotted Bower Bird, Chlamydera maculata, 
has ‘‘Macdonnella’’ added to its name. Our common 
Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicens, has intermissa tacked on. 
He pointed out the hopeless muddle. such indiscriminate 
renaming of the birds would cause, and hoped that none 
of our ornithologists would follow the cumbersome and 
unnecessary alterations to the present binomial classi- 
fication. Mr. Le Sotief added some remarks, and generally 
agreed with the speaker. 
