X PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



ascertain from the Trustees of the Museum whetlier they would 

 allow Mr. Krefft, the Acting Curator of the Institution, to take 

 charge of such Cabinet. 



The President exhibited a very remarkable insect allied to 

 Eledona, found by Mr. Ramsay under the bark of a dead tree, at 

 the Blue Mountain Inn. He stated that in some respects it bore 

 a resemblance to Ulodes, a genus formed by Erichson on an 

 insect of Van Dieman's Land, but it differed from it and all the 

 other Bolitophagidse by its very minute head and Hispa-like 

 position of the Antennas. With a view to the more distinct 

 understanding of the relations of this very curious form, he ex- 

 hibited a number of Australian Bolitophagidse, including nine 

 species of a new genus, which he proposed to call Lepargus. 



The President also exhibited a new form of Malachins, from 

 the Upper Darling, in which the apex of the thoi'ax is prolonged 

 into a spine which extends beyond the head, also a new Scarites, 

 Arthropterus, and Hyhosorus from the same locality. 



The President also exhibited an Elater from the Blue Moun- 

 tains, in appearance very much like the South American genus 

 Semiotus. 



Mr. Ramsay exhibited a number of Insects collected at the 

 Blue Mountains, including a new Telepliorus, and a new species 

 of the family of Cephaleidae. 



5th JANUARY, 1863. 

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



The President read a Paper on the Scaritidae of New Holland. 



Mr. Stephens exhibited a new species of Chrysodema, which 

 he had found on the Blue Mountains ; he also exhibited a male 

 and female specimen of the Stujmodera Klugii, showing the great 

 difference between the sexes. 



Mr. Masters exhibited a specimen of that rai-e insect Cainpy- 

 locnemis Schrceteri, which he had found under a log at Burwood. 



Mr. Hinds exhibited a Gephaleus lopterus, which he had 

 found in Kent Street, Sydney, and a very large species of 

 Leiicospis. 



