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grows Cotula fllicula and C. Yeptans, the dainty white and blue- 

 flowering SccBvola Hooker i, Brachycome scar if or mis, B. cardio- 

 carpa, and B. strida, Gratiola nana, the pink Geranium sessili- 

 florum, Mentha serpillijolia, the white-flowering Claytonia 

 Australasica, the blue-petalled Caladenia angitstata, Cardamine 

 hirsuta, Lagenophora Billardieri, Haloragis depressa, Plantago 

 Brownii, and on rocks the silvery-leaved Gnaphalitim alpigenum. 

 The river is lined with Olearia lepidophylla, now and again by 

 the pink flowers of Comesperma retusnm, Sellendena montana, 

 and Blandfordia marginata, the whole prettily contrasted by 

 bushlets of Drimys aromatica and Telopea truncata, surrounded 

 by masses of Chiloglottis Giinnii and the blue-flowering Lobelia 

 anceps. 



After again receiving the hospitality of the station people, 

 the day of our ultimate departure arrived with the 14th 

 January, and so ended a botanical tour into the mountains, 

 where every walk appears to be the contents of a book, which 

 stimulates innumerable thoughts and pictures. From the rock, 

 whose weather-worn surface is covered with mosses and lichens ; 

 from the alpine flower-gardens, where the gentle kangaroo 

 grazes with its young, up to the gnarled and stunted pines and 

 gum-trees and the crystal, ghttering snow-fields, over which 

 the stately eagle soars, are the leaves of this writing of Nature 

 to be seen. The one will read out of this book more, the other 

 less ; but all the art of reading rests in this : to analyze and 

 recognize out of the superabundance of appearances and the 

 individual occurrences the eternal law of the whole and the 

 ingenious arrangement of things. 



This paper, dealing with our botanical observations, may be 

 considered as a supplement to the illustrated general account 

 of the trip given in the Launceston Weekly Courier, 22nd and 

 29th September, 1910 ; and, in conclusion, I desire to express 

 my thanks to Mr Leonard Rodway, Government Botanist, for 

 his kind help in identifying the collected specimens. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF AND NOTES ON SOME AUSTRALIAN 

 HESPERIDAE. 



By G. a. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S., and G. Lyell, F.E.S. 



{Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, i ith March, 1912.) 



Anisynta tillyardi, n. sp. 



Male. Above. Forewing rich dark brown : long hairs of 

 basal third, barely reaching costa, orange-brown : a small sub- 

 quadrate spot in end of cell, dull orange : a subapical transverse 

 series of three minute dots, dull orange : a pair of very small 

 discal spots in interspaces 2 and 3, dull orange : rarely traces 



