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pink colour, edited isitli black, and with a pale central 

 stripe. The front part of the head is also pink^ and the 

 eyes violet pink, with a green stripe across them, giving 

 the insect a very elegant nnd sin<^nlar appearance. The 

 third species (ElaphoTuia alcicpniij<, the elk-horned deer-fly) 

 is a little smaller than the two already described, but 

 resembling in colour Elaphomia wallacei. The horns are 

 very remarkable, being suddenly dilated into a flat plate, 

 stronfily toothed round the outer margin, and strikingly 

 resembling the horna of the elk, after which it has been 

 named. They are of a yellowish colour, margined with 

 brown, and tipped with black on the three upper teetlh 

 The fourth apecie;? (Elaphomia brevicornis, the sliort- 

 homed deer-fly) differs considerably from the rest. It is 

 stouter in fom, of a nearly black colour, with a yellow 

 ring at the base of the abdomen ; the winjjs have dusky 

 stripes, and the head is compressed and dUated lat^^rally, 

 with very small flat horns, which are black with a pale 

 centre, and look exactly like the mdimeiit of the horns of 

 the two precediiig species. Kone of the females have any 

 trace of the horns, and Mr. Saunders places in the same 

 genus a species which has no horns in either sex (Ela- 

 phomia polita). It is of a shining black colour, and i-e- 

 sembles Elaphomia cervicornis in form, size, and general 

 appearance. The figures above given represent these 

 insects of their natural size and in cliaracteristic attitudes. 



The natives seldom brought me anything. They are 

 poor creatui-es, and rarely shoot a bird, j-ig, or kangaroo, or 

 even the sluggish oposamn-like Cuscus, The tree-kangaroos 

 are found here, but must be very scarce, as my hunters, 

 although out daily in the forest, never once saw them. 

 Cockatoos, lories, and parroquets were really the only 

 common birds. Even pigeons were sciu'ce, and in little 

 vai'iety, althougli wc occasionally got the fine crown 

 pigeon, which i^ as always "%'elcome as an addition to our 

 scautily furnished larder. 



Just before the steamer arrived I bad wounded my ankle 

 by clambering among the trunks and branches of fallen trees 

 (which formed my best hunting grounds for insects), and, 

 as usual with foot wounds in this climate, it turned into au 

 obstinate ulcer, keeping im in the bouse iur several days. 



