366 Drs. Dixey and Longstaff’s Observations 
? Plusia, or small ? Sphinw was seen at Verbena flowers, 
but missed. Shortly after leaving the station two of the 
widely distributed Crambid, Hromene ocellea, Haw., flew to 
the lights of the train. 
East Lonpon. Lat. 33°S. Sea level. 
SECOND VISIT. Sept. 25-29. 
Six weeks had elapsed since our first flying visit to this 
place. After an unusual drought it had rained the day 
before our arrival, and it was blowing a violent gale when 
early in the morning we came to the end of our long rail- 
way journey of six days and six nights. The gale ter- 
minated with heavy rain that greatly damaged the condition 
of the butterflies. One victim of the flood, a female 
Saturnid, Avina jforda, Westw., was rescued from 
drowning. 
A good deal of our time was spent on our old ground in 
the QUEEN’s ParK. The Poinsettia flowers were over: 
energetic sanitary reformers had nearly completed the 
covering in of the unsavoury stream, but the operations of 
the Kaffir workmen had wrought sad havoc in some of the 
best collecting ground. 
Mylothris agathina, Cram., did not appear to be nearly 
so common as before, but perhaps this was owing to the 
absence of Poinsettia flowers to assemble them. There 
was however no doubt that the closely allied I, riippellit, 
Koch., was common enough. The males of both these 
allied species have a strong and seemingly identical sweet- 
briar-like scent. The very local and singularly elegant 
M. trimenia was quite common, both sexes being well 
represented. 
Belenois severina, Cram., and B. zochalia, Boisd., were 
both very common; of the latter the females seemed to be 
more numerous than the males, perhaps because more 
distinctly coloured. 
The beautiful Lronia cleodora, Hubn., was quite common. 
A few Pinacopteryx charina, Boisd., were taken, all “ dry”; 
a male Byblia goetzius, Herbst, significantly a very fresh 
specimen, was distinctly of the wet form, but, with this 
possible exception, there was no evidence that the recent 
rains had produced any change of type, probably there had 
not been sufficient time. The only Zeracoli noticed in the 
park were a male achine, Cram., and several omphale, 
