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"better with EriocMlus in the pubescent surface o£ the labellum 

 as also in habit, differing, however, from the other species of 

 Eriochilus in not dilated lower lobes of the calyx and in the 

 very broad and anteriorly fringed labellum ; the occurence of 

 an empty bract on the stem being for generic purposes im- 

 material, as demonstrated by the genus Caleya. 



List of Plant Species collected by Mr. J. C. Chandler, Corr. 

 Memb., in the neighbourhood of Peake, Central 

 Australia. By Prof. Tate and Baron Sir E. von Mueller : — 

 Lepidium phlebopetalum ; Abutilon halophilum, A. Fraseri; 

 Sida intricata, Euphorbia erythrantha, Erodium cygnorum, 

 Tribulus terrestris, Claytonia Balonnensis, Ptilotus exaltatus, 

 Kochia villosa, Boerhaavia diffusa, Crotalaria dissitiflora, Indi- 

 gofera brevidens, Swainsonia campylantha, Lotus australis var. 

 Behrianus, Cassia Sturtii ; Minuria leptophylla, M. Candollei; 

 Calotis hispidula, Pterocaulon sphacelatus, Pterigeron 

 liatroides, Elaveria australasica, Millotia G-reevesii, Helichry- 

 sum podolepideum, Helipterum floribundum ; Groodenia 

 cycloptera, Gr. glauca; Solanum lacunarium, S. ellipticum; 

 JS^icotiana suaveolens, Justicia procumbens, Eremophila Eree- 

 linffii. 



Zoology. 



l^OTEs ON Two Species of Moths. By E. Gruest, Local 

 Correspondent. 



The insects to which the following notes refer have been 

 generically determined by Mr. E. Meyrick, B.A. {Editor.) 



Antliercea sp. (probably A. JEucalypta) . — " This is the largest 

 of the Bombyces known to me ; the expanse of wings is 5i 

 inches in male, 6^ to 7i in female. In shape and markings it 

 closely resembles A. Fernyii of China, but the colour is much 

 darker, and the round spot is opaque. The larvae is bright apple 

 green, with a blue tinge along the back. On each of the second 

 and third segments are two blue warts, similar but smaller on 

 the four, fifth, and sixth, and on the eleventh segment a large 

 one. The spiracles are large, oval, and of an orange colour ; 

 and between them and the legs there is an interrupted, raised, 

 and broad stripe of Indian red colour. The caterpillar feeds 

 on " white gum" saplings, and spins about the third week in 

 Eebruary. The cocoon, which is of the size of a small 

 pullet's egg, is very tough and hard, and contains a great deal 

 of silk, but is so mixed with gum as to render it of no use 

 commercially. It passes the winter in this state attached to 



