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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



taken by Mr. A. Simson, of Launceston, at Strahan in October, 

 1897. My thanks are due to Mr. E. Anderson for kindly 

 supplying the illustration. 



To-night I have placed on exhibition specimens of all the 

 described species of this genus of butterflies (with the exception 

 of X. ella and X. paludosa) and also a peculiar Tasmanian 

 variety of X. hobartia. These comprise — X. achanta, Don. ; 

 X. correce, Olliff ; X. correce, vax.fulva, Olliff ; X. hobartia, West. ; 

 X. kershawi, Misk. ; X. klugii, Guer. ; X. lathoniella, West. ; 

 X. leprea, Hew. ; and X. orichora, Meyr. X. ella was described 

 by Olliff from a single specimen taken near Goulburn, N.S.W., 

 and the type has unfortunately been lost. From the description 

 it was very closely allied to X. kershawi, and was most probably 

 only a well-marked variety of that species. X. paludosa is 

 described by Dr. T. P. Lucas as allied to X. orichora, and, 

 with an expanse of 20-24 mm., is the smallest species of the 

 genus. 



NOTE ON THE TYPE OF THALOTIA DUBIA, A 

 SHELL DESCRIBED BY TENISON-WOODS. 

 By J. H. Gatliff. 

 {Read before the Field Natxiralisis' Club of Victoria, 10th Sept., 1900.) 

 By kind permission I have been allowed to critically examine the 

 abovenamed shell, belonging to the family Trochidse. It was 

 found at Clark's Island, Bass Straits, is now in our National 



Museum, and was described in the " Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society of Victoria," vol. xiv., page 58, as a new species by the 



