156 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Specimens of Mylitta austraHs{'' Native Bread"), from King River. 

 By Mr. G. Lyell, jun. — Lepidoptera taken during January, in- 

 cluding Papilio macleayaJius, Leach ; Delias {Pieris) hafpalyce, 

 Don ; and Xenica ker shawl, Misk ; also the Silver-streaked Hawk 

 Moth, Chcerocampa celerlo, reared. By Mr. W. M'Gillivray. — 

 Australian birds' eggs. By Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G. — • 

 Two new Victorian plants, Aster frostil, F. v M., found by Mr. 

 C. French, jun., and Hellchrysum stirlingi, F. v M., found by Mr. 

 C. Frost, obtained on Mt. Hotham during the excursion of the 

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science to the 

 Victorian Alps. By Mr. J. Searle.— Breeding cage with larvse, 

 chrysalides, and imago of the large " tailed-blue " butterfly, 

 lalmenus evagorus, Don. 



After the usual conversaziojie the meeting terminated. 



NOTES OF A SHORT TRIP TO THE ISLANDS OF 

 WESTERN BASS STRAITS. 



By E. D. Atkinson, C.E. 



(Read before the Field Naturalists" Club of Victoria, loth February, 



1890.) 



As the islands composing the above group are but comparatively 

 little known, an account of a short trip to them may not be unin- 

 teresting. Having a little time at my disposal during the month 

 of November, I decided to spend it among these islands, with a 

 view to examining them and gaining all the information I could 

 respecting the character and distribution of their fauna. Having 

 chartered a boat for this purpose, we left Circular Head on the 

 morning of the 13th of November of this year, and with a 

 fair and freshening wind ran past the peninsula, and through the 

 passage separating Robbins's Island from the mainland, and entered 

 Mosquito Sound, between Robbins's and Walker's islands, in time 

 to secure the boat and fix the tent before darkness set in. My 

 nephew and I took the tent, and the others slept in the half-decked 

 boat, so that we had plenty of room, which is always an advantage 

 in camp life, whether in a tent or otherwise. The following day we 

 walked round Walker's Island. Leaving camp we followed the 

 channel or sound, which is circular in shape, and about half-way 

 along came to a shell bank upon which were many birds of various 

 kinds, and amongst them were five pelican with their heads under 

 their wings, to all appearances fast asleep. I tried to approach 

 them under cover of the bank, but a warning note from Larus 

 pacificus, always a nuisance under these circumstances, roused them 



