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Scott M.SS., from Ash Island. Hesperia nov. sp., Ash Island 

 and Port Denison. Charagia Bamsaiji, male and female, from 

 Ash Island. Charagia Ugnivora, Lewin, male and female ; the 

 female was unknown to Lewin. Charagia splendens, Scott M.SS., 

 male and female, from Ash Island, &c. 



Mr. KreflFt exhibited a frog, with a number of parasitic 

 Dipterous larvtfi. 



Mr. Masters exhibited a remarkable pupa, composed of insects' 

 wings. 



5th SEPTEMBER, 1864. 

 The Rev. R. L. King, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. Forde and Mr. Catlett, were elected members of the 

 Society. 



The Pi-esident read a Paper on the fresh water Entomostraca 

 of New South Wales. 



Mr. Masters exhibited, among collections of Coleoptera from 

 the Clyde River and Eastern Creek, a Carabideous insect resem- 

 bling Zuphmm, which he had found in an ants' nest. 



Dr. Cox exhibited some Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, which 

 he had received from Port Curtis. 



]\Ir. Krefffc exhibited a specimen of Pseiidophryne Bihronii 

 from the Clyde River, having two swellings on the back contain- 

 ing larvae of Batrachomyia. 



Mr. Krefft also exhibited a large mass of sphecoma of a small 

 wasp, sent from Rockhampton by Mr. Thomas Nobbs. 



Mr. MacLeay exhibited forty-six species of Carabidse, taken 

 by himself during the previous month, on the Lower Mnrrum- 

 bidgee. He stated that, though almost all of them were ground 

 beetles, he had taken them all under the bark of trees, to which 

 they had been driven by heavy floods, which had inundated all 

 the low lands. 



