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branch of the mistletoe itself we found a single light green 

 hemispherical Ogyris egg with a regular pattern on apex. This 

 egg was not that of 0. genoveva, hewitsoni, olane, or ahrota, all of 

 which are well known to us, and we are fairly safe in concluding 

 that it was 0. water houseri. 



We have come to the conclusion that our visit was a few weeks 

 too late to secure the larvsc or pupge of this species, and almost 

 too late for the imagines. The latter half of October would, we 

 consider (in a normal season), give better chances of success. 

 Though we found many empty pupal skins, we failed to find a 

 single pupa or larva, and in three days of keen search, in highly 

 favourable weather, we saw but two of the butterflies on the wing. 

 The finding of a single egg may point to a second brood, but of 

 this we have no other evidence. 



In the cavity of the trunk of a eucalypt bearing a bunch of 

 Loranthus pendulus we found one full-grown larva and one pupa 

 of Ogyris genoveva, already recorded from Dimboola in the 

 Victorian Naturalist, vol. xxiii., p. 115. The pupa emerged 

 before we left Dimboola, and produced a female 0. genoveva of 

 the blue form. Both pupa and larva were attended by large tan- 

 coloured ants with black heads {Campanotus, sp.), and though we 

 disturbed these ants at the base of some six or eight eucalypts, it 

 was only upon the one tree that we found the 0. genoveva. 



Upon the sheoak trees (Casuarinas) the reed-like mistletoe, 

 Loranthus linophyllus, was fairly plentiful, and a good number of 

 the empty egg-shells of Ogyris hewitsoni were noticed, while a 

 few of the butterflies were hovering round the trees. 



While our efforts were mainly directed to the species we had 

 specially made the journey for, we did not neglect other butterflies, 

 and secured specimens of the following : — Pyrameis itea, P. 

 kershawi, Junonia vellida, Heteronympha merojje, Xenica kluggi, 

 Miletus ignita, Candalides cyanites, Zizera labradus, Nacaduba 

 biocellata, Neolucia agricola, Neolucia serpentata, Paralucia 

 pyrodiscus, Ogyris genoveva, Belenois Java (very plesUiful), Hes- 

 perilla dirphia. In tw^o small local show-cases we identified the 

 additional species Danais petilia, Delias ayanippe, Elodina 

 quadrata, Terias sniilax, Polyommatus boeticus, Ogyris hewit- 

 soni, Ogyris waterhouseri, Lucia lucanus, and lalmenus evagoras ; 

 also a melanic variety of Pyrameis kershawi, in which the apices 

 of fore wing were very dark ; all white spots in the apical area 

 were wanting. We have thus twenty-four species of butterflies 

 to record from Dimboola, and a visit at another season of the 

 year would doubtless add several to that number. 



A very pleasant, if not altogether successful, trip was brought 

 to a close by our reaching Melbourne again on Friday, 22nd 

 November. These dates we hope will be of use to any other 

 entomologist who is sufficiently interested to travel so far after 

 this rare species. 



