50 [March, 



captures of antJiohia in Britain, Dr. Sharp has kindly communicated 

 to me 14 specimens taken at Deal, 1863-72, one specimen from 

 Shirley, and Mr. Atmore one specimen taken by himself at King's 

 Lynn, all hitherto unrecorded. 



Leighton Buzzard : 



Becemler l^th, 1905. 



EDITORIAL. 



The vacancy on our staff, caused by the recent death of our 

 colleague, the late Mr. J. W. Douglas, has been filled by Mr. James 

 E. Collin, F.E.S. 



In view of the numerous and important papers on Bipfera which 

 appear in oar pages, we feel assured that our readers, no less than 

 ourselves, will welcome the addition to our number of so competent 

 a worker in the Order as Mr. Collin has proved himself to be. 



ANTIPODEAN FIELD NOTES. 



III.— A SKETCH OF THE ENTOMOLOGY OF SYDNEY, N.S.W. 



BY JAMES J. WALKER, M.A., R.N., F.L.S. 



{Concluded from, pctge 27). 



But the most productive by far of all the Australian flowers are 

 those of the Myrtaceous shrubs belonging to the genera Leptospermum 

 (" tea-tree ") and Angophora (" native apple"), two or three species of 

 which are found abundantly in suitable situations throughout the 

 Sydney district. The blossoms of the larger Eucalypti, though perhaps 

 equally attractive to insects, are as a rule too high out of reach to be 

 readily worked ; and the allied " turpentine-tree," Metrosideros lepto- 

 petala, F. von M., abundant at Belmore and elsewhere near Sydney, 

 comes into flower rather too early in the season for the bulk of the 

 Coleoptera. A few of the early BuprestidcBy including the yellow- 

 spotted Stigmodera elongata, Saund., and 10-maciilata, Kirby, may also 

 be taken in September on the beautiful pink blossoms of JSriostemon 

 myoporoides, De C. (ButacecB). About the middle of October the 

 Leptosper7num produces a great profusion of delicately scented small 

 white flowers, not very unlike those of the hawthorn in appearance, 

 which in the low country are usually nearly or quite over by mid- 

 December, though at this time the blossom is in perfection in the 



