ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF N. S. WALES. Ixi 



Mr. KreflFt exhibited tAvo collections of insects, made by the 

 late Mr. Forde at the Darling River and Bateman's Bay, and 

 presented to the Museum by Mrs. Forde. 



Mr. MacLeay read a Paper entitled, "New Species of 

 Amycteridce,,'' and exhibited at the same time the thirty new 

 species described in his Paper. 



3kd SEPTEMBER, 1866. 

 William McLeay, Esq., in the Chair. 



Mr. Masters exhibited, as an indication of the advance of 

 summer, a box containing 75 species of Coleoptera, which he 

 had taken that morning in a few hours at Bondi. 



Mr. Masters also exhibited the larvae pupge, and perfect 

 insects of Macratoma gemella Pasc. and Alaus prosectus Cand. 



A specimen was also exhibited by Mr. Masters of that 

 remarkably rare insect, Magamerus Kingii MacLeay. The 

 Chairman stated that he believed but two specimens of this 

 insect were hitherto known, both collected by the late Admiral 

 King; one of them was in the collection of the late Mr. W. S. 

 MacLeay, which was now in his possession ; the other he be- 

 lieved was in the National Museum, Pai'is. The present insect 

 was found by the late Mr. Forde, during his survey of the 

 Dai'ling liiver last summer. 



Mr. KrefFt exhibited a box of very handsome Lepidoptera 

 from Cape York, presented to the Museum by Mrs. James 

 Mitchell. The Chairman called attention to some species of 

 diurnal lepidoptera in the collection which, though not new 

 species were, he believed, new to the Australian Fauna, namely, 

 Pieris Aruna, Boisd. ; Lyhithea Myrrha, God.; Papillo Ulysses, 

 Linn. ; Papilio Polydorus, Linn. , the latter insect had, however, 

 previously been taken by Mr. MacGillivray at Rockingham Bay. 

 There was also a fine species of ii^usemia in the collection which 

 was new to the members present. 



