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ascertained, all belonged to one species. An attempt was made 

 to secure some of the larger specimens with the hook and line, 

 but although all sorts of bait was tried we were unsuccessful. 

 The butterfly net, however, enabled us to get three or four nice- 

 sized specimens. Shoals of the young were seen in a shallow 

 creek, and by making a temporary dam across, we were able to 

 secure as many as were required. I refrain, for the present, from 

 naming the species, as I hope to be able to deal more fully with 

 this group at a later date. 



Insects, generally speaking, were not plentiful, nor were any 

 rarities secured. Those seen were such as are found at Beaumaris, 

 Frankston, and along the Mornuigton Peninsula. The most 

 favourable localities visited were the grass-tree flats on the south- 

 east corner of the inlet and the valleys between Oberon and 

 Waterloo Bays. Lepidoptera, chiefly micros, were most notice- 

 able at the former locality, but although several of the well-known 

 forms were fairly jjlentiful, the number of species was very limited. 

 Among the butterflies, the Common Brown, Heteronympha merope, 

 was very numerous on one of the ridges behind our landing-place, 

 but, strange to say, we saw very few during the remainder of the 

 trip. The Mountain Brown, Tisiphone abeona, as well as the 

 Painted Lady, Pyrameis kershawi, and the Australian Admiral, 

 F. ilea, were met with every day. Amongst the " blues," 

 Neolucia agricola, our Williamstown friend, was fairly common on 

 Tongue Point, and still more so at Waterloo Bay. I'his species, 

 which is also found in Tasmania and South Australia, seems to 

 delight in situations exposed to strong sea winds. Five species 

 of " skippers " (Hesperidse) were taken, the rarest being 

 Hespei-illa, dispar and Mesodina halyzia. The wood-boring 

 larvae of Hepialus ligrdvora were plentiful and in all stages of 

 growth, but only one was found to have changed into the 

 chrysalis stage. This emerged on the 12th January following. 

 The larvae of the well-known moth Mamestra eivingi were extremely 

 plentiful, particularly on the beach at Oberon Bay, where they 

 were seen in dozens crawling down from the grass tussocks over 

 the sand, only to be caught by the incoining tide or eaten by 

 the sea-birds. About 80 species of Coleoptera were taken, 

 among which were 7 species of Buprestidae, none of which require 

 special mention. Among the other orders, 6 species of Cicadas 

 were bottled, including several of the brilliant little Cicada 

 aurata, which was numerous on the grass flats on the Derby 

 River, and kept up their continuous shrill song from daylight till 

 dark. 



Coleoptera. 

 Notonomufi,chalybeus, Dej. 

 Lacopterum loculosum 

 Clivina victoria;, SI. 



Cenogmus rotundicollis. Cast. 



waterhousei, Cast. 

 Gnathaphanus, sp. ? 

 Homoeodytes Scutellaria, Germ. 



