xl PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



3rd OCTOBER, 1864. 

 William MacLeat, Esq., in tlie Clmir. 



Vicomte Henri Bonvouloir was elected an Honorary Member 

 of the Society. 



The Secretary exhibited an insect sent to him by W. Sharp 

 MacLeay, Esq., with the following communication : — 



" Mr. Fulkare, a fruit-grower and proprietor of an orange 

 plantation at Kissing Point, brought me a branch of an old blue 

 gage Plum, swarming with this species of Apate. He said that 

 he had lost all his Plum trees through these insects, particularly 

 where the trees had been planted in low damp ground. In the 

 same branch were found another and a very different species of 

 Apate, and also, but very mutilated, a species of the corticarious 

 Histeridce. In like manner, I have got in my own garden, old 

 Fig-trees from the South of Europe, old Cherimoyas from Peru, 

 and woody Heaths from the Cape, all killed by Orthorhinus 

 cylmdrirostris. I therefore infer, that when an introduced tree 

 becomes unhealthy through extreme wet, low situation, or other 

 causes, it will immediately be attacked by our indigenous 

 Xylophagous Coleoptera, for the species abovenamed are all truly 

 Australian. 



It will be difficult to find a remedy for this evil, as the insect 

 seems to live in the imago, as well as larva state inside the 

 branches. However, as the present is evidently the breeding 

 season, which appears from the abundance of the perfect insect ; 

 I have advised Mr, Fulkare, forthwith to burn all his infected 

 Plum-trees, whether alive or dead, and to plant new ones only 

 in the very highest parts of his garden, due attention, of course, 

 being paid to the suitability and depth of the soil." 



Dr. Cox exhibited a few insects from the Clarence River. 



An excursion was arranged for Saturday, the 22nd November. 



7th NOVEMBER, 1864. 



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



The President read a third Paper on the Pselaphidge of 

 Australia. 



