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the base, revolute along the margin, usually blunt ; headlets 

 small, turbinate-hemispheric, singly terminating branchlets, closely 

 approached by leaves, nodding ; involucral bracts in many rows, 

 all acuminated ; the outer from reddish to black-brown, ciliolated ; 

 lamina of the inner white, comparatively broad, the stipes of 

 these, except the innermost, thin, lanuginous near the lamina ; 

 receptacle much depressed ; anthers soon almost completely 

 exserted ; achenes glabrous, rather pale, truncate, somewhat 

 transparent; bristlets of pappus 6 — 12, short-plumous, yellowish 

 at and towards the summit. 



Tempe-Downs. R. Thornton ; near Georgina-River, Alfr. 

 Henry ; Finke-River, Rev. H. Kempe ; Lady Charlotte's Waters 

 and west of Eringa, W. Tietkens; Nullarbor-Plains, J. Batt; Mount 

 Moore, Edwin Merrall ; remotest eastern sources of Swan-River, 

 Miss Alice Eaton. 



In the Systema to be inserted near H. incanum. The specific 

 name of this exceedingly pretty "Everlasting" was chosen already 

 some years ago in honour of E. G. Fitzgibbon Esq., who through 

 a third of a century so dignifiedly held the onerous office of 

 Melbourne town-clerk, and who with genial and enlightened 

 circumspectness has also constantly promoted science-researches 

 in the greatest of southern cities. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES FROM THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT 

 OF VICTORIA. 



The last of the MSS. for part 1 of the new " Handbook of the 

 Destructive Insects of Victoria," with 13 coloured plates, will be 

 handed to the Government Printer about the end of next week, 

 and I hope to have it out by the end of July, as it is urgently 

 required for the coming spring. 



A large number of valuable books have been added to the 

 library, including Walker's " List of the Lepidoptera," 25 vols. ; 

 Buckton's " British Aphides," 4 vols. ; " Catalogue of Hemiptera, 

 Heteroptera, Hallicidse, &c," 16 vols. ; " Proceedings of Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales," complete from the beginning, 

 17 vols. ; Baron von Mueller's and Professor M'Coy's works, bound, 

 complete ; Scott's "Lepidoptera of Australia," part 1, &c. 



Many additions by purchase and exchange have been made to 

 the collections of economic insects of Victoria and elsewhere, with 

 examples of their life-histories, &c. 



Communication has been established between this department 

 and similar ones in Europe, America, India, the Cape, and 

 elsewhere, with most favourable results. 



The collection of insectivorous birds is being constantly added 

 to, and where obtainable the nests and eggs of same will be 

 shown, the latter presented by C. French, jun. 



