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siderable resemblance to the above species, but the fruits are 

 quite different. Tlie general similarity is, however, so evident 

 that, if hybridism be a factor in the evolution of the present 

 species, the widely-diffused E. gunnii may well be supposed to 

 have relationship with this new form. 



A New Victorian Eucalyptus. — At the September meeting 

 of the Field Naturalists' Club Mr. A. E. Kitson, F.G.S., exhibited 

 specimens of an apparently new eucalyptus from the Portland 

 district {Vict. Nat., xxi., p. 8i). These have since been sub- 

 mitted to Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., Government Botanist, New 

 South Wales, who writes : — "Your eucalyptus is E. diversifolia, 

 Bonpland, of which E. santali/olia, F. v. M., is a synonym. 

 This record adds another species to the flora of Victoria, and 

 the range of E. diversifolia is now sandy coast lands from Cape 

 Nelson, Victoria, to Western Australia. It is probable other 

 South Australian species of plants may be added to the flora of 

 Victoria from this district." 



Tenacity of Life as Exhibited in the Larv^ and Pup^ of 

 THE Common Salt-marsh Mosquito. — Some months since, at 

 the instance of Dr. Gresswell, president of the Board of Health 

 for Victoria, I undertook to collect and study the mosquitoes of 

 Coode Island, Lower Yarra, and in this connection was fortunate 

 enough to secure the co-operation of Mr J. A. Leach of the 

 Biological School, University. Being desirous of testing the 

 resisting powers of the larvae and pupae of these insects, a 

 number of the former were placed in 90 % alcohol, in which they 

 lived and swam for fifty-five minutes, the pupae for twenty minutes 

 longer! This is to me very little short of the miraculous, as, 

 putting aside their singular method of breathing, one would have 

 thought that such soft and frail creatures would have been 

 effectually preserved in a few seconds. I was very pleased to be 

 able to show these specimens, alive and moving, to Dr. T. Cherry, 

 of the Agricultural Department, who chanced to call at my office. 

 It would doubtless interest many readers of the Naturalist to 

 know the reason of this partial immunity to such severe treat- 

 ment. — C. French, Government Entomologist. 5th December, 

 1904. 



The Great Barrier Reef. — Among the members of the 

 scientific expedition which recently visited the Capricorn Group, 

 off Gladstone, Queensland, under the leadership of Mr. C. 

 Hedley, F.L.S., of the Australian Museum, Sydney, we notice the 

 name of Mr. F. E. Grant, whose removal to Sydney deprived 

 Victoria and the Field Naturalists' Club of an energetic worker 

 in marine Crustacea. 



