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 2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



Abstract of Proceedings, August 31st, 19U4. 1) Revision of the Au- 

 stralian Species 0Î Bolboceras^ [Coleoptera, Fam. Scaraboeidae], with Descrip- 

 tions of new Species. By Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Corresponding Member. 

 In his Synopsis of the Australian Species of Balboceras, contributed to the 

 Linnean Society in 1848, the late Prof. Westwood treated of seventeen 

 species. In Masters' Catalogue (Part III., 1886), thirty-one species were 

 listed as valid, and eight names regarded as synonyms. Since the year 

 1886, ten additional species have been described, of wich two probably are 

 merely varieties. In the present paper nineteen species, for the most part 

 from North Queensland, the Northern Territory of South Australia, and 

 North-West Australia, are described as new, giving a total of fifty-five 

 species recognised by the author. 2) Studies in Australian Entomology. 

 No, XIV. New Species of Geodephagous Coleoptera from Queensland and 

 North-West Australia. By Thomas G. Sloane. Three additions to the 

 Cicindelidae and five to the Carabidae are proposed as new. The first group 

 comprises two species of Cicindela from Roebuck Bay, N.W.A., and Mackay, 

 Q., and one of Distypsidera from Cairns Q. ; and the second a species of 

 Mario from Cairns, Q. ; a var. of Perigona rußlabris Mac!., from Cairns, Q.; 

 a species of Masoreus from Townsville; and a new genus represented by two 

 species from Cairns and Kuranda, Q. Mr. Stead exhibited a cocoon of An- 

 theraea eucalypti Scott, together with twenty-two parasitic flies [Lucilia sp.). 

 the larvae of which emerged from the cocoon about a fortnight after the 

 caterpillar began to pupate. Mr. Waite exhibited living examples of Molge 

 pyrrogastra Boie, the red-bellied newt of China and Japan. The specimens 

 shown were part of a consignment brought from China some three months 

 ago; and were purchased from a local dealer. Mr. Froggat exhibited a 

 named collection of indigenous or introduced Diptera, comprising represen- 

 tatives of twenty-two species. Some of these were more or les cosmopolitan, 

 and most of them were usually very much in evidence; at the same time 

 their identification hitherto had not in all cases been an easy matter. By 

 the kind co-operation Mr. D. W. Coquille t, of the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture, he had now authentically named examples of many dipterous 

 insects for reference. The collection exhibited comprised three species of 

 blow-flies [Calliphora oceaiiiae Desv., C. villosa Desv. and C. iiicisularis Macq.); 

 three species of blue-bottle flies [Lucilia Tasmaniensis Macq., L. caesar Linn., 

 and i. sericata Macq.); the drone-fly [Eristalis tenax Linn.); the potato-fly 

 [Lonchaea splendida Linn.) ; the banana-stalk fly [Nerius lineolatus Wied.); two 

 parasites upon plague locusts [Tachina aedipodiae OIL, and Masicera pachy- 

 ^y^îSkuse); the leaf-miner [Phytomyza affinis Fabr.); the wallaby louse-fly 

 [Olfersia macleayi Leach); two species of Musca [M. domestica Linn., and 

 M. cervina Labr.); the cheese-moggot fly [Fiophila casei Linn.); and the 

 bot-fly of the horse. 



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