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moth ; another night I took ten specimens (five species), 

 including the large C. Australastce and the new Sphinx Miskini. 

 Many good Bombyces, s-everal delicate and rare Pyrales, a 

 number of Noctuids and others come to the electric light. 

 Altogether, in Brisbane since September I have got nearly, or 

 quite, looo species of Lepidoptera, many of them certainly new 

 to science. 



I spoke of Brisbane as a central meeting point for various 

 zones. I have mentioned the upper line Gippsland zone ; then 

 we have the tropical types and the sub-tropical (Sydney) types 

 coming in large numbers. The Melbourne zone proper, with 

 such moths as C hlorochroma arenaria, common emerald, pass 

 over Toowoomba, but I cannot define its limit towards Brisbane 

 yet. The heath types are rare here, but, I expect, occur on the 

 sand islands of the river and bay. A new pyrameis, or British 

 type Vanessa, which I got from Fernshaw, Mr. Miskin has 

 done me the honour to name Pyrameis Lucasii. The new 

 hypochrysops which I found at Upper Moe, and of which I had 

 taken the coppery-brown female at Fernshaw, he has named 

 Hypochrysops Hecatius. A new white which I obtained in my 

 journey two and a half years ago, at Port Douglas, he has named 

 Tachyris asteria. And I have yet many blues and skippers, 

 which are undescribed and unnamed ; thus proving that not 

 nearly all the species of Australian Lepidoptera are yet 

 discovered. 



NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE 

 EUCALYPTS. 



By a. W. Howitt, F.G.S. 



(Read before the Field Naturalists' Cluh of Victoria, <^th April, 



1888.; 



MoRWELL TO YiNNAR. — Along the ridge followed by the road 



are E. amygdalina, large, bushy trees, with thick 



Tertiary Sandy foliage of small-sized leaves ; E. viminalis, also 



Clays, with some r 1 ■ t^ o , ^ • ^ 



AUuvium. or large size ; E. btuartiana, large, massive 



trees ; and, finally, a few E. pauciflora. 



YiNNAR TO BoOLARA. — At Yinnar there are E. viminalis 



scattered about with E. gunii along the watercourse. On 



leaving Yinnar there are, on the wet, swampy, clayey flats, E. 



gunii, with a few E. viminalis ; then, as the ground rises a 



little, and becomes poorer and more sandy, the only trees for 



some little distance are E. pulverulenta. These trees have 



leaves strongly falcate, and much less pulverulent than those 



growing, for instance, on the road to Walhalla or at Monkey 



Creek, on the road to Port Albert. But the lower branches, or 



the young saplings, here have opposed pulveru- 



'^^^d^ify^^^ lent leaves. These trees decrease in number 



until, when close to Boolara, they are repre 



sented by only a few stunted trees. From Twelve-Mile Creek 



