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been occasionally taken near Melbourne. It is a very pretty 

 insect ; the bases of the wings are deep emerald, shading ofif to 

 nearly white, with a wide black margin, enclosing a row of white 

 spots, with two green blotches near the upper edge. Its expanse 

 of wing is about 2^ inches. 



The last family of butterflies is the Hesperidae, the insects 

 belonging, to which are popularly known as " skippers," from their 

 irregular, jerky flight. They are mostly small, and of sombre 

 colour. Some 70 species have been recorded for Australia, and 

 probably more remain to be added to the list. The Museum 

 collection contains about 24 species, belonging to the genera 

 Pamphilla, Telesto, and Hesperilla (Hesperia). The largest 

 specimen is about 1^ inches across. This family is also commouer 

 near the ranges than in the immediate vicinity of Melbourne. 



I have now briefly run through the Victorian butterflies as 

 represented at the National Museum. They will be found to 

 number about 80 species, but of these it may safely be said that 

 nearly one-half are found only in the higher parts of the colony, 

 while the butterflies common about Melbourne are under 20 in 

 number. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CHORIL^NA. 

 By Baron Ferd. von Mueller, K.C.M.(J., M. & Ph.D., 

 F.R.S., &c. 

 CnoRiLiENA Hassellii. 



Rather dwarf; leaves small, lanceolar- or linear-elliptical, some- 

 what cuneate at the nearly sessile base, almost flat, equally green 

 on both sides, as well as the branchlets beset with scattered 

 longish simple hairlets, finally more glabrous ; flowers singly 

 terminating the branchlets or also developed from the upper 

 axils, on short stalks ; bracteoles small, linear- or ovate-elliptical, 

 distant from the calyx ; sepals very much shorter than the petals, 

 somewhat unequal, ovate- or lanceolar-elliptical, outside beset 

 with colourless hairlets ; petals large, membranous, narrowly 

 elliptic-cuneate, glabrous except towards the summit, yellowish, 

 with a dark median stripe, at first connivent towards the base and 

 distinctly overlapping ; stamens about as long as the corolla ; 

 filaments linear-capillary, provided above the base with minute 

 hairlets-bearing adnate scalelets, otherwise glabrous ; style elonga- 

 ted, capillary, glabrous ; stigma minute ; ovularies blunt, bearing 

 upwards copious hairlets. 



On the western side of the Stirling-Ranges ; A. Hassell, Esq. 



This plant resembles rather some species of Billardiera and 

 Marianthus than any Chorilsena or Eriostemon. The specimens 



