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Ayarista lewini were flying about, while higlier up on the hills 

 some good specimens of the skipper, Hesperilla doubledayi, were 

 taken. 



Coleoplera were more plentiful, the flowering Leptospermum 

 growing thickly along the Yarra about Launching Place and 

 Yarra Doon yielding numbers of some of the commoner species 

 of Chrysomelids, Clerids, &c. Searching under the bark of the 

 larger eucalypts in this locality proved profitable, though less so 

 on the hills. On stripping our first tree near the station no less 

 than nineteen species of Coleoptera were noticed, including 

 Carabs, Clerids, Longicorns, Elaters, &c., not to mention the 

 numbers of spiders, earwigs, centipedes, &c. The common 

 Elater, Hapatesus hirtus, was parlicularl)' numerous, and where 

 exposed a dozen or so were seen closely clustered together, with 

 a fttw specimens of the Clerid, Pyhis fatuus, in their midst. 



Log-rolling, which was freely indulged in, revealed several 

 species of Carabs, some of which were numerous, while a male 

 and female each of Lissapterus howittanus (now becoming rare) 

 and Ceratognathus niger were also taken. Upon a closer ex- 

 amination at home, about seven species of Coleoptera proved new 

 to me. 



The large green Cicada, C yclochila australasice, numbers of 

 which were just emerging from their ungainly-looking pupa cases, 

 made tlieir presence keenly felt by their continuous ear-splitting 

 stridulation. 



Several species of Hemiptera were found on the Leptospermum, 

 gum saplings, under bark, &c., some of which were very common. 

 Spiders were, as usual, plentiful, but only a few were bottled. A 

 special search was made under logs, &c., for living specimens of 

 the large Black Snail, Faryphmita atramentaria, at one time very 

 plentiful near Fernshaw, but now scarce, but only one was found, 

 tliough two perfect and several broken shells were found. The 

 smaller species, PJiytida capillacea, and the small white Eudo- 

 donla depressa were, however, common. Several specimens of 

 a very small brownish species were found under bark in the 

 gullies. The common Freshwater Mussel, Unio australis, occurs 

 m the Yarra at Launching Place, and a small species of Bulinus 

 was found on some sticks taken from a pool near the township, 

 together with a fine Freshwater Leech. 



Land Planarians were few in number, though five difterent 

 species were taken. — J. A. Kershaw. 



List of birds identified : — 



Birds (26 species). 

 Graucalus mentalis 

 Gralhna picata 



Collyriocincla harmonica, nest 

 and eggs 



Gymnorhina leuconota 

 Petroeca rhodinogaster 

 Eopsaltria austialis 

 Acanthiza chrysorrhoa 

 Malurus cyaneus 



