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Paper on our Pselaphidce. Mr. Krefft, the Acting Curator of 

 the Australian Museum, has given us in another Paper an 

 account of the habits of a Dipterous Insect, the larva of which 

 lives under the cuticle of various species of Frogs. The 

 Honorable A. W. Scott, Esq., has also given a Paper descriptive 

 of a new species of Ornithoptera from Port Denison, accompanied 

 by an admirable drawing of the Insect by his daughter. Miss 

 Pleleua Scott. The other three Papers have been contributed 

 by me ; the first is a review of the genus Phyllotocus of Fischer, 

 with a description of the genera and species immediately allied 

 to it. Tlie second is one of a series of Papers intended to 

 describe the many novelties in my Port Denison collection, and 

 contains descriptions of four new genera and fifty new species 

 from that locality. The third is a supplement to my Paper on 

 the Scaritidce of New Holland published in the 1st Part of 

 the Transactions, and adds a number of new species to the 

 genus Carenum, which had hitherto been considered rare in 

 species. 



In addition to these Papers, a large amount of information 

 with descriptions of new species, will be found in the Proceedings, 

 of the Society, which are now about to be published, and I 

 cannot permit this opportunity to pass withovit expressing the 

 obhgations which the members generally are under to Mr. 

 Masters, for the exhibitions, at each monthly meeting, of his 

 rare and beautiful collections. 



In my address at the last Annual Meeting, I ventured to 

 point out to the young Entomologist the proper course of study 

 which he ought to pursue on commencing the Science, and I 

 would now further suggest that the Papers read at our meetings 

 in future, should be less confined to the bare description of new 

 species belonging to genera already well known. This laborious 

 and rather di-y department of the Science is, without doubt, 

 very useful ; but it is one that obviously may be as easily worked 

 out in Europe, as in New South Wales. On the other hand, 

 observations of the habits, manners, metamorphoses, geography, 

 Src, of the insect forms peculiar to New Holland can only 

 be made on the spot ; and I need scarcely say that any iufor- 



