Il2 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



pair, which are the only ones perfectly developed — colour pale 

 green, feet pale flesh colour. 



Pupa. — Length, y^, of an inch. Enclosed in a frail web cocoon 

 a couple of inches beneath the surface of the soil. Chestuut- 

 brown in colour, with wing-cases emerald-green. 



ON THE CHANGE OF NAME OF POROLEDA 

 LANCEOLATA, Tate. 



By C. Hedley, F.L.S. 



(Communicated by T. S. Hall, M.A.) 



{Read before the Field Naturalists'' Cluh of Victoria, I0t?c October, 1904.) 



The name of Poroleda lanceolata is involved in some confusion. 

 Prof. Tate, in March, 1894, introduced (Proc. Roy. Soc. New 

 South Wales, xxvii., p. 186, pi. xii., fig. 6) a new species, the type 

 of a new genus, under this name, but in the previous September, 

 Capt. Hutton had redescribed ("Macleay Memorial Volume," 

 p. 86) his fossil under the same name. 



Since Poroleda lanceolata is to-day in current use for both a 

 New Zealand and an Australian shell, I propose to distinguish 

 that which Tate figured and described from the Gellibrand River 

 beds of Victoria as Poroleda tatei. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO VICTORIAN EUCALYPTS. 



By J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., Government Botanist of N.S.W., and 

 Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



(Communicated by Prof. W. B. Spencer, F.R.S.) 



{Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 1th Nov., 1904.) 



Eucalyptus kitsoni, J. G. Luehmann, Herb. 



This species-name has already found its way into literature, but 

 the species has not been described, through the unfortunate illness 

 of my friend Mr. J. G. Luehmann, F.L.S. , Curator of the National 

 Herbarium, Melbourne. One reference is in the Victorian 

 Naturalist,* and the plant has also been distributed by Mr. 

 Luehmann under the name above given. 



A dwarf tree. " It usually does not grow higher than 4 feet to 

 5 feet, but at Foster it is found 18 to 20 feet in height " (A. W. 

 Howitt).t Mr. Howitt informed me that it attained a height of 

 30 feet. 



Bark. — " Smooth in texture and ashy-grey in colour, which 

 becomes lighter in the upper branches" (A. W. Howitt, op. cit.) 



* Vol. xvii., p. 81 (6th September, 1901). 



t Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict., 1890, p. loi (as E. gunnii (b) ). 



