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Plate LXV. 



Fig. 1. — An ants' nest, covered with mulga leaves, belonging; 

 to a new species, Poljirhachis (Camponu/nnaJ Jongipes, Wheeler. 



Fig. 2. — The same at nearer view. 



Plate LXVi. 



Fig. 1. Monomorinm (Hohomyrmex) irhifei, Wheeler. 



2. Blelophorus laticeps, Wheeler, head. 



3. Camponotus (Myrmoturha) laf run cuius, Wheeler, head. 



4. ,, ,, ,, Wheeler, side 



view of thorax. 



5. ,, (Myrmofjonia) eremicus, Wheeler, head. 



6. ,, ,, ,, Wheeler, side 



view of thorax. 



7. „ (MyrmamhlijsJ aurofasciatiis, Wheeler. 



8. ,, (Myrmosphincta[?^) whitei, Wheeler. 



9. ,, ,, leae, Wheeler. 

 10. Polyrhachis (CampomyrmaJ longipes, Wheeler. 



(j) BOTANY. 



By J. M. Black. 

 Plates LXIX. and LXX. 



This list comprises 200 species collected by Capt. White. 



The following have been previously recorded for Central 

 Australia (Northern Territory), but not for South Australia 

 Proper: — Sivninsona canescens. Acacia ciharia, Eucalyptus 

 pachyjihylJa, Olearia Ferresii, Calotis Kempei, Helipterum 

 Charsleyae, and H. Fiizgihhonii. New^ species for Tate's 

 ''Central District" (in the north-v^restern corner of w^hich ar& 

 situated the Musgrave and Everard Ranges) are: — Eragrostis 

 lacunaria, E . Brownii, Cypertis exaltatus, Bassia longicuspis, 

 Chenopodium microphylhtm, Haloragis odontocarpa, Myo- 

 porum deserti, Waitsia corymbosa, Podocoma nana, Helip- 

 terum Tietkensii, and Gnaphalium japonicitm . 



Four species are described w^hich are believed to be new 

 to science (in the genera Triodia, Menkea, Pterigeron, and 

 Toranthus), and also a variety of the Native Tobacco 

 ( Nicotiana suaveolens). 



Only two botanical collections of importance have been 

 previously made in the region between Oodnadatta and the 

 Musgrave Ranges. The first was that of Ernest Giles in his 

 exploration of 1876, and the second was that of R. Helms, 

 collector to the Elder Expedition of 1891. Giles' plants 

 were dealt with by Baron von Mueller in the ''Journal of 

 Botany," xv., 269-281, 300-6, 344-9 (1877), and Helms' 



