Identifier: transactionsproc4243phil (find matches)
Title: Transactions and proceedings and report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia
Subjects: Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia Science
Publisher: Adelaide : The Society
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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e dried, was in anest like thefemales. The largest nest taken is 6 cm. in total depth, straight,and densely lined. The aperture, which has a lumen of8 mm., is closed by a stout, circular door with an attachmentof one-fourth its circumference to the tube. The door is flaton the under-surface and roughly heaped up on the outer-surface. The total width of door 15 mm. wide, 11 mm. fromhinge to front. In one nest twenty young were found withthe female, but in none were egg-cases found. Another nestcontained the complete cocoon of a leaf-cutting hymen op ter. Apart from its small size, the characteristics of thisspecies are the dense spiny armature of the anterior two pairsof ambulatory legs and the palpi. Types 1 (male) and 2 (female) in Australian Museum,Sydney; 2 (female), co-type in South Australian Museum,Adelaide. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XII. Aganippe rainbowi, n. sp. Fig. 1. Female, dorsal view. 2. Female, ventral view. 3. Male, palpus, lateral view.,, 4. Nest, closed. ,, 5. Nest, open.
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77 notes on the occurrence of aboriginal remainsbelow Marine deposits at the Reedbeds,fulham, near adelaide. By S. A. White, C.M.B.O.U. (Read July 11, 1919.) In 1893 Mr. William White, of the Reedbeds, conceivedthe idea of forming a small lake as a sanctuary for water-fowland other birds. For this purpose he leased a piece of groundfrom his younger brother (now deceased) situated close to whatwas once a large swamp, and only a few hundreds of yardsfrom the sand-dunes near Henley Beach South. This part ofthe country has been in the possession of the family from thefirst, my grandfather, the late John White, having settledthere prior to the proclamation of the Colony in 1836. The excavation required in the formation of the artificiallake was carried out entirely by hand labour and hand tools,and the excavated materials were carted to one side andtipped, making a considerable mound around the lake. Thecost of labour alone amounted to over £1,500, in addition tothe personal costs and yea

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