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brilliant with the flowers of the golden everlasting, Helichrysum 

 lucidum, while among the stones at the water's edge grew a 

 stunted form of Lomaria discolor. We now commenced to 

 reascend to our starting point, up a succession of stony ridges 

 timbered with Eucalyptus, Exocarpus (Native Cherry), Banksias, 

 Hakeas, Acacias, Grevillea alpina, Grasstrees, &c., in some 

 places very dense. On the tops of some of the ridges we got 

 extensive views to the south-west, embracing Bacchus Marsh and 

 the plains on the other side of the Werribee. The country near 

 at hand put one very much in mind of the undulating scrubby 

 hills near Sydney, between Willoughby and Middle Harbour, 

 with the exception that here Silurian rocks with numerous quartz 

 outcrops took the place of the Hawkesbury sandstones of that 

 locality. With regard to the zoological results of the trip, 

 perhaps the most noticeable animal seen was a Kangaroo, but 

 which species I am unable to say. Birds were scarce, though an 

 ornithologist might have noted more than we did. A few 

 small lizards disappeared among the rocks as we approached 

 them. Regarding insects, Mr. Lyell reports as follows about the 

 Lepidoptera: — "Butterflies were few in number of species. Besides 

 the common Heteronympha rnerope and Pyrameis hershawii, 

 only Lyccena agricola and Holochila mcsrens were taken. 

 The dull-coloured moth, Taxeotis intextata, occurred in great 

 numbers, and in the gullies plenty of Hydriomena correlata and 

 H. mecynata were to be noticed. The pretty little Peltophora 

 atricollis was met with frequently, and several specimens of the 

 vividly bright Prccris viridipulverulenta were seen. Acropolitis 

 dolosana and Philohota sigmophora were taken — the latter, with 

 the very distinct capital S on forewing, is by no means common. 

 On a saddle of the range on our way back we captured a 

 specimen of Coesyra iozona (first record for the district), and 

 also one each of Philobota monosema, Turner, and Eupselia 

 ecliptis, Meyrick, two species recently described, and only re- 

 corded so far from this locality." Other orders of insects were 

 either poorly represented or by common species, as nothing of 

 note was captured. 



Returning to our conveyance we were soon back in the town- 

 ship and ready to accept our leader's hospitality for the evening, 

 and Mrs. Lyell was sorry that there were not more members of 

 the Club present to do justice to the good things she had pro- 

 vided. The time soon slipped away, chatting of early memories 

 of the Club, the Yarra Falls camp-out affording several tales of 

 adventure, so that we had but little time to admire Mr. Lyell's 

 splendid collection of Australian Lepidoptera, which in butterflies 

 is almost complete and in the smaller moths is perhaps un- 

 rivalled, and when it can be said that the whole of this is due to 

 Mr. LyeU's energy and hard work since he joined the Club some 



