xxxiv THE PRESIDENT- S ADDRESS. 



among the most important. It treats of the CurculionidcE, and, 

 if at all equal to the previous volumes, it will form a valuable 

 addition to our acquaintance with that extensive family. No 

 copy, however, has yet reached us. M. Candeze also has during 

 the last year published the 4th volume of his elaborate Mono- 

 graph on the ElateridcE. 



Of works more immediately affecting Australia, I may notice 

 the 1st volume of the "Journal of Entomology," which though 

 published in 1862, did not reach this country until 1863, and 

 may fairly therefore be included in this Summary. ]\Iany 

 Australian Coleoptera have been described by Mr Pascoe in this 

 volume, chiefly Colydiida and Longicorns. Mr Baly also has 

 added in it, the description of a few Australian Phytophaga. 

 The volume also contains a Paper by the Rev. Hamlet Clark on 

 the Dyliscida and Gyrmid<2 of Australia; and one by Mr P. 

 Walker descriptive of a number of Homopterous insects, some of 

 which are from this country. 



In the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 

 which have been published, or which have reached this country 

 during the year 1863, there are several Papers bearing on the 

 Entomology of Australia. Mr F. Walker has, in a Paper 

 entitled " Characters of undescribed Lepidoptei'a," included the 

 descriptions of some Australians ; the same author has also 

 contributed a long Paper on the Chalcidida, which includes a 

 few Australian species. Several new Australian Bees have been 

 described by Fred. Smith, Esq., the President of the Society. 

 Professor Westwood has also contributed two Papers on Lucanida, 

 which are principally applicable to this country ; and Mr Pascoe 

 has added in the last published Part a description of sixty new 

 species to his previous extensive labours on the Longicorn Cole- 

 optera of New Holland. 



In our own Society seven Papers have been read, which 

 will be immediately published in the 2nd Part of the Trans- 

 actions. The Rev. R. L. King has contributed two of these, the 

 first, a monograph on the Scydmaenidce of Australia, in which 

 several new genera and species of that interesting family are 

 described; the second is an addition to his former valuable 



