In answer to your question, here in northern Illinois we call the small or auxillary lug on the side of the neutral lug in the meter socket the "bullseye". (It may be that other power companys don't require this lug on meter sockets, I don't know.) Most jurisdictions where I work require that the Grounding Electrode Conductor be bonded to the neutral conductor at that point and no other and, since it must be continous, that requires that the GEC be looped up through this lug. From that connection in the meter socket the neutral and ground never meet. What this inspector didn't like was that the GEC I used was bare and he thought that it too close to the ungrounded conductors. What puzzles me is that everywhere else I work inspectors demand that the GEC be routed as I described. I hope that this helps answer your question.
