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July 25th, at Thursday Island, with a shorter stay than at 
Port Darwin. Junonia orithya, L., was the only butterfly seen. 
At several points on the way down to Cairns large Termitaria 
that appeared from the steamer to reach a considerable height 
were observed. I don’t think the highest of them could have 
exceeded 9 or 10 feet. There are, I believe, records of Australian 
Termitaria reaching 16 feet in height. 
July 27th, at Cairns. I was able to get a couple of miles 
along the railway track. The first insect to appear was Deiopia 
pulchella, Linn., in bred condition ; the next was Zizera labradus, 
God. (alsulus, Herr Sch.), a few Hurycus cressida, F., and Terias 
hecabe, Linn. 
August 3rd, Sydney, where the war excitement was intense. 
August 12th, in Melbourne, the present home of the Curtis 
Collection. One of my most cherished possessions is a copy of 
‘Curtis’ British Entomology,’ Needless to say that when I paid 
my visit to the museum I asked the curator to permit me to see 
the Curtis cabinets, a favour which he very courteously granted. 
For a collection which is, I understand, just as its original owner 
left it, the excellent conditién is astonishing. 
August 16th, at Brighton Beach. Eupithecia ? Pasiphila 
catastreptes, Meyr., Idea optivata, Walker, Calothysanis perlata, 
Walker, and Tortrix indigestana, Meyr., a case of the bag-worm 
Oiketicus elongatus, and a smaller case something like that of our 
Proutia betulina. 
August 18th, at Toorak. On fences Eucosma triangulana, Meyr., 
and Strathmopoda melanochroa, Meyr. I have never taken our 
Strathmopoda pedella, but when I saw this insect sprawling on 
the fence I was reminded of pedella as figured on the cover of one 
of the ‘ Entomologists’ Annuals’, that of 1867. 
August 19th, to Studley Park, an interesting Eupithecia, 
Chloroclystis laticostata, Walker, Hpyacxa subidaria, Guen., Plutella 
maculipennis, Curt., and the case of a Psychid, Hyalarcta huebneri. 
August 20th, at Kew, Nomophila noctuella. 
é August 21st, on a fence in the Domain, Phelotis excursaria, 
uen. 
August 22nd, at Fern Tree Gully, Selidosema lyciaria, Guen. 
August 23rd, in the Domain, twelve specimens of Narycia 
heliochares, Meyr. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
NoMIaDEs sEMIARGUS: A THIRD Emercence.—It may not be 
generally known that in exceptionally warm autumns there may be a 
third emergence of Nomiades semiargus on the continent. The late 
Mr. Tutt in ‘ British Buttertlies,’ vol. iii, p. 296, hints at a partial third 
