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death. Mr. Luehmann was a man of good education and high 

 inteUigence. He displayed great interest in botany, and for 

 many years made the preliminary identifications of specimens 

 for Baron von Mueller, becoming an authority on the Eucalypts 

 and Acacias. His great assistance was acknowleged by Baron 

 von Mueller in the preface to the " Key to the System of Vic- 

 torian Plants." In the early days of the Club, before the 

 institution of the Naturalist, he contributed papers on the 

 Eucalypts and Acacias. In 1896, on the death of Baron von 

 Mueller, he was appointed Curator of the National Herbarium, 

 and afterwards became Government Botanist. During late years 

 he contributed several descriptions of plants to the Club's pro- 

 ceedings, in addition to a most interesting paper, " Observations 

 on pre-Linnean Botanists " ( Vict. Nat., xv., p. 50), in which he 

 called attention to the many valuable botanical works in the 

 Herbarium Library. He was one of the earliest Victorian 

 Fellows of the Linnean Society of London, and was greatly 

 esteemed by his colleagues and acquaintances. He was twice 

 married, and leaves a widow and young family. His funeral at 

 the Melbourne Cemetery, on Saturday afternoon, the 19th 

 November, was largely attended by his compatriots, with whom 

 he was very popular, and by fellow-members of the Field 

 Naturalists' Club. 



NOTES ON HESPERID.^E DESCRIBED BY MABILLE 

 AND REPUTED TO BE AUSTRALIAN. 



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

 {Read hefore Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 10th October, 1904.) 



M. P. Mabille has, during the last twenty-five years, published 

 many incomplete descriptions of species of this family, most of 

 which are simply supplied with the locality Australia, or even 

 Australia (?). When a catalogue of the Rhopalocera of Australia 

 was published last year by one of us, we did not know that these 

 descriptions were available in Australia. We have lately obtained 

 copies of them, and as a result are able to show that six species 

 cannot be referred to Australia at all ; three we can definitely sink 

 as synonyms of older species, and four others we can sink, though 

 with less certainty, thus relieving our lists of a number of worth- 

 less names. The remaining species appear to us to be so poorly 

 described that we can hope for certainty only when fresh 

 descriptions are given, if, indeed, the types are in existence to 

 redescribe. As one sample of the worthless work of this author, 

 we find that in the present year he describes a species from 

 which the antennae and palpi were missing, from Australia, with 

 no more definite indication of locality. 



Corone ismenoides, Pet. Nouv., ii., p. 205, 1878. — The late Mr. 



