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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



[Vol. XXV. 



ing only along the ridges and on the coach road no level ground 

 was to be met with — steep and densely wooded hillsides and 

 trackless gullies had to be descended. But the new and rare 

 species to be taken compensated for all minor difficulties. On 

 the ridges we took Talis megalarcha, the largest of Australian 

 " hay-moths," another Kosciusko species now first recorded from 

 Victoria, and also some few specimens of the much more widely 

 distributed Thinasotia pentadactyla {claviferella). We wondered 

 if we should find any species peculiar to the Snow Gums, but a lot 

 of beating only resulted in one xyloryct, Agriophara ametrodes, 

 and a few Scoparia philonephes. 



We can recommend the St. Bernard Hospice as an ideal spot 

 from which to collect during January, and, as showing the 

 abundance of specimens, I brought back with me as the result of 

 twelve days' collecting 626 set moths and butterflies and an addi- 

 tional 121 which I have placed on the boards since my return. 



During our stay the thermometer touched 33° and reached a 

 shade temperature of only 77°, so the evening wood fires of 

 " Snow Gum " were in pleasing contrast with the heat we had left 

 behind. Heavy rain during the previous night left the^mountains 

 clothed in dense mist during our ride down to Harrietville on the 

 morning of the i8th, and the 19th February saw us again on the 

 railway at Bright, with pleasant memories of our holiday onjthe 

 top of the mountains. 



List of species captured, all at 4,500-5,000 feet except when 

 otherwise stated. Those prefixed "^ now first recorded from 

 Victoria : — 



BUTTERFLIES. 



i Neolucia hobartensis, Misk. 



Pyrameis kershawi, M'Coy 

 P. itea, F. 

 Junonia vellida, F. 

 Heteronympha merope, F. 

 H. solandri, Waterh. 

 Xenica klugii, Guer. 

 X. achanta, Don. (2,500 ft.) 

 *X. orichora, Meyr. (6,oco-6, 100 ft.) 

 X. correx, Oil. 

 X. kershawi, Misk. (3,000 ft.) 

 Zizera labradus, Godt. 



Halone sobria, Walk. 

 Euproctis leucomelas, Walk. 

 Microdes diplodonta, Turn. 

 Asthena balioloma, Turn. 

 A. oceanias, Meyr. 

 A. urarcha, Meyr. 

 Scordylia leucophraf;ma, 



(3,000 ft.) 

 Hydriomena interruptata, Gn. 

 H. anthracinata, Gn. 

 H. heteroleuca. Meyr. 

 H. cydalima, Turn, 

 li. languescens, Rosen. 



N. serpentata, H. S. 

 Delias aganippe, Don. 

 D. harpalyce, Don. 

 Papilio macleayanus, Leach 

 *Hesperilla munionga, OIL 

 H. monticolae, Oil. 

 H. compacta, Butl. 

 II. peronii, Latr. 

 H. flammeata, Butl. 

 Trapezites phigaloides, Waterh. 



MOTHS. 



II. insulsata, Gn. 

 H. ebuleata, Meyr. 

 H. perornata, Walk. 

 H. ieucozona, Meyr. 

 II. stereozona/Meyr. 

 H. polycarpa. Meyr. 

 Meyr. H. oxygona, Meyr. 

 H. opipara, Turn. 

 ■H. chrysocyma, Meyr. 

 H. cataphcea, Meyr. 

 H. subrectaria, Gn. (3,000 ft.) 

 II. subochraria, Dbldy. 

 Diploctena argocyma, Turn. 



