PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



In accordance with resolutions agreed to at a preliminary meeting, 

 held on the 7th April ; the first monthly meeting of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of New South Wales, was held at 153, Macquarie- 

 street, on the 5th of May, 1862 ; 



William MacLeat, Esq., in the Chair. 



The Rules of the Society, as prepared by a Committee of the 

 Members, were agreed to with a few amendments. 



Mr. MacLeay called the attention of the Members to a 

 Cocoon, containing a perfect female of Tliynnus variabilis. 

 He was unable to say where it had been found, but he hoped 

 that the slight clue which it gave to the history and habits of the 

 Thynnidae, (a family about which notliing was known, though 

 the most common of the Australian Hymenoptera), would be 

 followed up by some of the Entomologists present. 



Mr. Ramsay exhibited some fine specimens of " Phasma." 



2nd JUNE, 1862. 

 William MacLeat, Esq., in the Chair. 



The Office-bearers and Council of the Society were elected. — 

 See page ii. 



Mr. Schrader read a paper upon the Gall-making Coccidae of 

 New South Wales. 



