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A few buprestid beetles, of which Stigmodera maculata and 8. 

 xanthipilosa were the most common, were taken, while some 

 half-dead leaves of a eucalyptus, shaken into the umbrella, yielded 

 several specimens of a pretty longicorn, Ectosticta cleroides. The 

 little green beetle Diphucephala rugosa was very plentiful on the 

 scrub. Very few orchids were seen, but the little plant Come- 

 sperma calymega reminded us that summer was rapidly approach- 

 ing. Among the small Lepidoptera seen or taken may be men- 

 tioned Eydriomena correlata, JS. mecynata, Dichromodes triparata, 

 Byturna inostentata, Euchloris dichloraria, Heliocausta inceptella, 

 H. hemiteles, Peltophora privatella, Philobota interlineatella, P. 

 herodiella, P. pedetis, P. euxantha, Leistomorpha ochrocausta, 

 Thudaca crypsidesma, and Coesyra parvula. Larvse of Hetero- 

 nympha merope, Darala censors, Crypsiphona occultaria, and 

 Prionophora ruptella were taken, the last-named being a rather 

 good capture. In a creek a number of small freshwater fish, 

 probably young Galaxias, were noticed. On the whole we had a 

 pleasant outing, and regretted that the bad weather of the early 

 morning had prevented other members of the Club sharing in the 

 enjoyment of the day. — C. French. 



ON THE SYNONYMY OF PACHYCEPHALA RUFO- 

 GULARIS, Gould, WITH P. GUTTURALIS, Latham. 

 By Robert Hall. 

 (Bead before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 10th Dec, 1900.) 

 In consequence of the discussion on the paper, " Field Notes on 

 the White-throated Thickhead," read by me before the May 

 meeting of this Club, and published in the Victorian Naturalist, 

 vol. xvii., p. 52, I have given some attention to the doubtful 

 species called P. rufogularis, and, although convinced in my own 

 mind, just as Mr. Campbell was, that it was simply the young of 

 P. gutturalis, Lath., I was not prepared at the time to definitely 

 say it was so. 



Upon looking at the plate of the bird by the original describer, 

 Gould, I find his coloured drawing ("Birds of Australia," fol. vol. 

 ii., pi. 70) is wrong in a most important particular, and that the 

 letterpress does not agree with it, and this is supported by my own 

 observations on a large series of skins of P. gutturalis. Further, 

 the description by Gould of the adult bird I consider to be too 

 limited. He says : — " I have never seen this species of Pachy- 

 cephala in any other collection than my own, all the specimens 

 therein being secured in South Australia, where I found it 

 anything but plentiful. From the little I saw of it I consider it a 

 very solitary bird, for I always encountered it singly, and around 

 Adelaide. Its actions were particularly quiet, and I never heard 



