ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF N. S. WALES. xxiii 



6th JULY, 18G3. 

 William MacLeay, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Houghton Bi'adley and Mr. Wilcox were elected 

 Members of the Society. 



Mr. Krefft exhibited a very interesting Dipterous insect, 

 the larvae of which he had found parasitic in Hyla Gitropus, 

 and other species of Frogs. He stated that he intended to 

 read a Paper on the subject at some future meeting of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Stephens said that he had been much struck with the 

 incredible numbers of Lamprolina (vneipennis which he had 

 found in and about Picton, about a week previous — every spot 

 under bark and elsewhere, which afforded the slightest shelter, 

 being literally crammed with them. The Bursarla spinosa, upon 

 which the species in question feeds, he also observed to be entirely 

 denuded of leaves over a considerable extent of country, and he 

 had no doubt that the injury had been caused by the unusual 

 superabundance of these insects. 



.3rd august, 1863. 

 Hugh Houston, Esq., in the Chair. 



Mr. Justice Wise was elected a Member of the Society. 



The Rev. R. L. King, B.A., of Paramatta read a Paper on the 

 ScydmoenidcG of Australia. 



Mr. Krefft read a Paper on the history of a Dipterous insect, 

 the larvEe of which are found in Frogs. 



Mr. Masters exhibited several specimens of a species of Catops, 

 which he stated he had found under a dead dog in an advanced 

 state of decomposition. He believed that the genus was hitherto 

 unknown in this Colony, though he was aware that Erichson had 

 described one from Van Dieman's Land in the Archiv fur 

 Naturgesch. 1842, p, 243. The species now on the table was, he 



