48 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. E. A. Anderson. — Orthoptera (Locusts) from India. 



By Mr. C. Coles. — Two species of Mantidse from Charleville, 

 Queensland ; three aboriginal stone knives with resin handles, 

 from N.W. Australia. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Phasma (Walking Stick Insect), from 

 Gippsland, showing remarkable protective mimicry ; aboriginal 

 stone tomahawks, aboriginal sharpening stones, all from Victoria; 

 new Victorian scale insects, Coccids, in illustration of Mr. E. E. 

 Green's paper ; rare Victorian orchid, Corysanthes ttnguiculata, 

 the dark and light coloured varieties, collected at Spring Vale, 

 10/7/04 ; photo, of Coast She Oak, Casuarina quadrivalvis, 

 showing the scale, Freuchia casuarince, killing the tree. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Shells, including Murex tenuissima, 

 Voluta vexillum, from Ceylon ; Zenophora exuta, Z. calcrolifera, 

 from Hong Kong ; Z. conchyliaphorus, from West Indies ; and 

 Z. Solaris, from China. 



By Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., for National Museum. — 

 Four " fibre balls " from Middleton Beach, near Goolwa, mouth of 

 Murray River, S. Aust. 



By Mr. J. A. Leach. — Live specimens of Daphnia carinata, 

 var. magniceps, and green Hydra. 



By Mr. J. Shephard. — Under microscope— Rotifer, Copeus 

 lahiatus. 



By Mr. S. P. Townsend. — Young specimen of Diomedia 

 chlororhyncha, found on the beach at Mornington. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



A SUMMER IN SOUTH GIPPSLAND. 

 By J. C. GouDiE. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 9tJi May, 1904.) 

 It has often been said, and with a good deal of truth, that a 

 change of scene and occupation is equivalent to a rest ; and 

 certainly to one who has for many years resided in the arid 

 North-West of Victoria the prospect of a sojourn in Gippsland 

 during the summer months is full of the charm of novelty and 

 anticipation. Especially is this the case when one has a taste 

 for the study of natural history, and thoughts of towering 

 eucalypts, of fern-clad gullies where never-failing waters run, of 

 the land of the Platypus and Lyre-bird, loom before his expectant 

 vision . 



I may here state that I was located a few miles to the south of 

 Warragul, in the vicinity of Bear Creek, but I also collected over 

 a strip of country, a ie^fi miles in width, lying between that town 

 and Dandenong. As regards first impressions, the contrast 

 between the level monotony and stunted vegation of the interior 



