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believed, very different from the Catops Anstralis of Erichson. 

 He had brought several specimens of the insect for distribu- 

 tion among those Members of the Society who might wish 

 for them. 



Mr. Masters also stated that he had found under the same 

 dog, nine species of Staphylinidce, and two species of Trichopteryx, 

 the most minute of Coleopterous insects. 



7th SEPTEMBER, 1863. 

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



A letter was read from the Rev. R. L. King, accompanying 

 a second Paper on the Pselaphidce of Australia, which was read 

 by the Secretary. 



Mr. Masters exhibited male and female specimens of the 

 Gastroplwra Henriccvria of Gueuee, and read the following descrip- 

 tion of the male, which was unknown to that author. 



Gastrophoka Henricaria. (J Guenee. 



" Antennte half the length of the wing ; strongly pectinated, 

 and of a silvery grey colour. Thorax of the same colour, and 

 woolly. Abdomen black above, white beneath. Tipper wings 

 above silvery grey, with a narrow fascia in the middle, and the 

 posterior margin black ; beneath, the same as the female. Lower 

 wings above and below as in the female. Length of wings in 

 the male, 70 millira., female, 95 millim. 



" M. Guenee places this insect among the Phalenites, fam. 

 GEnochyomidce ; but the larva is as yet unknown, and so far as I 

 know, there is no reason to suppose that it is one of the Geome- 

 tridce at all. 



" The specimens exhibited were found at Petersham, in the 

 month of August of this year, on a fence, and a female specimen 

 was found laying its eggs in the same place." 



Mr. Kreflft exhibited some leaves of the Moreton Bay fig, 

 covered with the larvee and pupte of a species of Tsylla, giving 



