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archippus, D. {Limnas) chrysippus, Catopsilia catilia, Callidryas lacUa, 

 C. flava, C. gorgophone, Papilio sarpedofi — a lovely object on the 

 wing — and then wasted some time trying to get a good specimen of 

 H. bolifia, which was very plentiful, but evidently nearly over. The 

 wonderful effects of the strong sunlight on the beautiful iridescent 

 blue rings of this insect are past description. 1 noticed several of 

 the hawk moths, and took two or three specimens. A black 

 and white moth with a golden-brown tuft of hair at the tip of the 

 tail, Agarista don0va?ii (^) was likewise very abundant. I took also a 

 moth rather resembling Catocala fraxini^ but with a pale shiny 

 yellow band on the under-wing, and not so finely mottled on the 

 upper-wing, Achxa sp. ? 



The most abundant insects seemed to be Acr(Ba andromache and 

 Euryais cressida, then H. bolina. D. archippus was not so numerous, 

 in the bright sunlight it looked like a flash of red as it darted 

 by. Its flight was very rapid, but it struck me as keeping a very 

 straight course. Of D. septentrionis I took three specimens. 



In addition to the shrub mentioned, the Australian wall-flower 

 (local name) seemed very attractive. Being what is known in 

 Australian lingo as a "new chum," I still had the fear of snakes 

 about me, consequent on the tales one is forced to listen to, and so 

 confined my ramble to a very beaten track. I waded the stream for 

 some little distance, and noticed several Papilio erectheus, but only 

 obtained one other specimen. 



Returning the same way home I captured what I am since told on 

 good authority is one of the genus Teracolus ( Theogone ?), although 

 Kirby's Catalogue up to 1877 does not record the genus as 

 occurring in Australia, nor does the Natural History Museum report 

 any. Also Euplcea corimta, Vanessa iiea, Terias hecate, and a small 

 dark brown butterfly I do not know the name of. 



Junonia orithyia I had noticed on my way to the corner flying 

 round and round an absolutely bare plot of ground, between two or 

 three big trees on either side of the bush track ; returning I saw the 

 same insect, a damaged specimen, and it seemed to be attracted to 

 a puddle of water, and was flying low down in a circle, I struck at it 

 several times before I succeeded in capturing it, but it always re- 

 turned to the same spot despite my attacks. 



Altogether I came away with over thirty species, but unfortunately 

 several of them I cannot record, as the next morning I found some 

 ants had penetrated into my collecting tin, which was carefully packed 

 in the middle of a compressed cane travelling trunk, and wrapped 

 round with several woollen garments. To my sorrow several insects 

 which I was not then in a position to identify, were rendered quite 

 useless. 



