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.Rymeaopteras —- Honey bees were common in flowers. 
Ants, such as the greenhead, the little black ant, were 
plentiful, while nests of meat ants and a nest of jumpers 
were found. 
An interesting spectacle was a cluster of sawfly 
larvae on a twig of Eucalyptus coppice. These when 
disturbed erected themselves on their tail ends and exuded 
a liquid from their mouths. 
By beating foliage a number of pretty minute para- 
sitic wasps were collected. 
Lepidopiera . — Several attractive butterflies fluttered 
through the bush. The beautiful brown and black butter- 
fly, Danaida archippus (“The Wanderer”) was on the 
wing. The larvae of this species is characteristically 
transversely striped and feeds on the milk weed, Aselepms. 
( A sclepias ) . 
Several “Whites” were also on the wing; of these the 
“Travelling Butterfly” (Anaphaeis java teutonia) was 
the commonest. 
A pretty specimen of one of the species of “Blues” 
was seen. This family of insects is an exceedingly pretty 
one, the metallic tints on the wings change with varying 
light. It is of this group that attractive broaches arc 
made. 
Odonata Dragon flies were common ; some flying in 
the sun were beautiful, the varying light enhancing their 
colours, 
Of the remaining orders no special mention is neces- 
sary, except that Thysanoptera (thrips) were abundant in 
flowers; Isoptera (white ants) occurred in rotting logs; 
Thysanura (silverfish) under bark, and Collembola (spring 
tails) were common in leaf mould. 
Pare * THE EUCALYPTS OR GUM TREES OF THE 
BRISBANE DISTRICT. 
(By C. T. White, Government Botanist.) 
(Continued from the “Queensland Naturalist, 
Vol. viii., p. 54.) 
19. Eucalyptus paniculata (Grey Ironbark). 
Description . — Large tree with a hard, furrowed, 
thick, coarse, black, or blackish grey bark, somewhat 
friable, the cracks often carrying a dark red gum or kino. 
Sometimes in the best class Eucalyptus forest (approach- 
ing rain-forest in character) the bark is much less fur- 
rowed and inclined to be tesselated. Coppice shoots at 
first very angular but very soon terete, young tips often 
suffused with purple. Coppice leaves broadly ovate to 
ovate lanceolate, then soon merging into the adult form, 
in the broader ones more than twice as long as broad, m 
