Ix PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Mr. Masters found this insect running on the mud on the 

 margin of a fresh water lagoon at King George's Sound. 



It diffei's from the species from Sutton Forest described by 

 me some months ago, chiefly in the larger and closer excava- 

 tions at the base of the elytra. The apex of the elytra also in the 

 present species, though very smooth and polished, exhibits a 

 slightly striated appearance." 



2nd JULY, 1866 

 William MacLeay, Esq., in the Chair. 



Mr. Leathes was duly elected a Member of the Society. 



The Chairman exhibited on behalf of Dr. Cox some poi'tions 

 of plants which had been or were supposed to have been killed 

 by insects, with the following remarks. 



No. 1. A Doliclios had traces of a small coccus but not ap- 

 parently sufficient to cause the death of the plant. 



No. 2. Were specimens of Gupressus Lambsrtlana, the larger 

 branch presented no traces of insects, but the smaller branch ex- 

 hibited under the bark numbers of the labyrinth like passages of 

 a small longicorn larva, by which the plant had most probably 

 been attacked after death. 



No. 3. Leaves of the European Fig with specimens of a 

 species of Galeruca which feeds on the leaves of the fig both in 

 the larva and imago state. In some seasons this insect is suffi- 

 ciently numerous to injure the trees, but the entire destruction 

 of a tree from this cause must be very rare. The rest of the 

 specimens had been kept too long to enable any ojDiuiou to be 

 foi'med as to the cause of death. 



6th august, 1866. 



Hugh Houston, Esq., in the Chau\ 

 Mr. Krefft exhibited a few Coleoptera from Ulladulla collected 



by Mr. Masters ; a white-kneed Adaliuin and an Alerpus were the 



only very novel things in the collections. 



Mr. Masters exhibited specimens of Stigmodcra Fortmimi, and 



other rare insects sent to him by Mr. Odewahu, of Gawler Town, 



S. Australia. 



