THE VICTOraAN XATCRALIST 



Drymania dimidiata is common ou fences. The larvte ofteia 

 destroys cereal crops wholesale, eating all before it. 



Tlie second brood of one of our Thorn Moths, Macaria 

 remoraria, Var. frontaria, is now to be Lad everywhere 

 Ihe males and females are so nnlike, as oft^-n to be mis- 

 taken for distinct species. The females are darker nnd 

 blotched, the males lighter and spotted. Another Thorn 

 which varies remarkably in colour, adopting all shades of 

 grey, brown and rufous, is found in copses at Boshill and 

 plentifully in the ranges. 



Several species of Emeralds have been taken this year, some 

 certainly undesciibed. I have now eleven Victorian species 

 in my collection, ten taken this year. Chhvrochroma 

 carenaria is the most 2>revalent with us. 



Agarista latinus still abounds. I took a species new to Victoria 

 and unnamed, but whicli had been known from Qaeeusland, 

 at Myrtleford. 



Mr. Dixon records a specimen of the rare Gastro-phora perni- 

 caria from near the Moe. 



The season is the best I have known for Lepidoptera in the colony, 

 owing no doubt to the unusual amount of rain. Many more notes 

 might be added, but I will only say there is now an excellent oppor- 

 tunity for the prosecution of entomological studies. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Westeriv" AusTiLiLiAN Wasps, &g. — A friend in England 

 having wi'itten to me, asking whether a statement made at a meeting- 

 of the local Natural History Society is correct or not, viz., that 

 Western Australian Wasps, &c., are stingless, I shall be glad to 

 have any information about them, likewise those of the other 

 colonies.' F.G.A.B. 



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