52 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



brought to town, when Baron von Mueller at once detected the 

 difference, and found to his delight that the orchid, which we 

 exhibit here this evening, was one of his own naming, and quite 

 new for Victoria. (A special note re this orchid has been kindly 

 prepared by the Baron, and is attached to this account of the 

 trip.) 



Turning over logs on the way, we found it again far too dry 

 for worms to be plentiful, but secured a few planarians, such as 

 Geoplana howitti (var. obsoleta), aclce, mediolineata, and alba, 

 together with one which is probably a large variety of G. 

 ventropunctata. 



Walking onwards towards Gembrook, we came to a bullock- 

 dray track bearing eastward, and following this along the ridge and 

 then down the hillside, we found it led to a very nice gully, in which 

 grow splendid plants of Dicksonia aniarctia and A/sophi/a, as 

 also some good Blackwood, Musk, Sassafras, &c. Higher up 

 this gully there are, or used to be, some very fine plants of the 

 Slender Tree Fern (Cyathea cunninghami, var. baylei), but we, 

 of course, had no time to go and see them. About a mile from 

 where the track crosses the gully is the fine nursery of the late 

 J. C. Cole, and here maples, hollies, oaks, rhododendrons, &c, 

 may be seen to perfection, the clover being nearly up to one's 

 knees, the whole reminding one forcibly of home. 



The part of the gully in which we halted was a very good one,, 

 there being quite a number of fallen logs on which the loose bark 

 hung, so that many minute things, good insects, fungi, &c, were 

 taken ; in all, more than 60 species of fungi were collected in 

 this gully. During the time we were at lunch, and after when 

 collecting around the place, a pretty little bird, the Rufous-fronted 

 Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) came fluttering about us, and 

 several times was not far from falling into our fire. We remained 

 for some kw hours in this part of the gully, and did fairly well in 

 earthworms, fungi, &c. One of the best finds in the beetle line 

 was a very good specimen of the longicorn, Athemistus armitagei, 

 which was found hiding under the bark of a living tree. Several 

 Pselaphidae, and other minute beetles, also Hemiptera, were 

 captured. Of earthworms seven species were taken, of which 

 two are new, and will be described under the names of Perichteta 

 dicksonia and P. alsophila. Leeches were fairly plentiful, and a 

 specimen of the large black Helix ( Paryphanta atramentaria) r 

 formerly common in the gullies near the Black Spur, was found 

 amongst some damp bark. Under the bark of a fallen tree in 

 the gully a lizard was found, which on examination proved to be 

 a specimen of Liolepisma ameurn, previously recorded from New 

 Zealand, but not from Australia. Other lizards found were 

 Hinulia quoyii, Liolepisma mustelinum and guichenotii, and 

 Siaphos (sp.) Of birds, Wood Swallows (Artamus, sp.), Fantails 



