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grown with the Sea Heath and Sea Glasswort. Continuing 

 onwards, we at length reached the Double Tanks — two oblong, 

 shallow, artificial excavations. The water impounded was 

 fresh, though slightly discoloured, and its muddy margins were 

 fretted with the tracks of many varieties of the feathered tribe. 

 As at Brighton's Tank, no indications were noted of either 

 stock or marsupials ha\-ing resorted to water for a lengthy 

 period. In and about the shallows the Spoon Mudwort, 

 Limosella Cnrdiana, the Dwarf Arrow-grass, Triglochin centro- 

 carpcK and the Trefoil Penn\nvort, Hydrocotyle medicaginoides, 

 grew luxuriantly. On the return journey a line specimen of the 

 lizard Varanus gouldi was captured far out on the lake-bed, and 

 the White-winged Wren-Warbler, Malurus lencopterus, noted 

 among the Dillon bushes. 



On Saturday evening Mr Stone left for Nowingi to catch 

 the 4.20 train on Sunday morning to Mildura. The following 

 afternoon Mr. A. W. Milligan and I bade adieu to the picturesque 

 spot where we had spent so many pleasant hours, and, journejdng 

 east, reached Xownigi in time to erect our tent, partake of tea, 

 and make ourselves comfortable before nightfall. Early 

 Monday morning the crowded train from Mildura i)ul(ed up 

 at Xowingi, and we clambered aboard, to stand the greater 

 part of the journey to the city, where we arrived shortly before 

 midnight, with barely sufficient time available to catch the last 

 train to our respective suburbs. 



In conclusion, we wish to express our thanks to ^Ir. J. A. 

 Kershaw, F.E.S., for his kindness in furnishing us with several 

 specimen jars, and subsequently identifying the insects, &c., 

 submitted to him: and to Mr. J. R. Tovey, of the National 

 Herbarium, for identifying and supplying us with the ver- 

 nacular names of the plants collected. .\11 the ornithological 

 and entomological specimens have been presented to the 

 National Museum, Melbourne. 



Among the insects handed to Mr. Kershaw for the Museum he 

 has identified the following : — Coleoptera : Bolboceras sloanei, 

 Blbk. ; Cubicorrhynchus calcaratus, Macl. (rare for Victoria). 

 Hymenoptera : Ephutermorpha formicaria, Fabr. (female). 

 Oithoptera : Tinzeda albosignata. Brim, (male) ; Euzosteria 

 subverrucosa, ? White (a cockroach, immature, a rare species) ; 

 Plana (Geoscapheus) robustus, Tepp. (a cockroach). Neuroptera : 

 Glenurus ? (young larva). Hemiptera : Chseroceris paganus ? 

 (immature). Spider — Argiope, sp. ? 



In some material handed to ]\h". J. Searle from the salt-pans, 

 he identified the Crustaceans Paratemia zietziana and Estheria 

 packardi. Some material from a freshwater dam yielded Daphnia 

 carinata and a copepod which will probably prove to be new. 



