78 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
July, 1925, 
Family Hespenidae. — Trapezitis symmomus Hub., T. 
iacchus Fab.. Toxidia peroni Lat., T. doubledai Feld., T. 
parvula, Ploetz, P'adraona flavavittata Lat., P. lascivia 
Ros., Telicota kreffti McL. 
The following* rare insects, of particular interest to 
the collector, were also found at Canungra: — Order, Neu- 
roptera; Fam.,Osmylid«e ; Porismus strigatus,Burm., Oedo- 
smylus pallidus, Mc.L. Order, Mecoptera; Fain., Ohoris- 
tidae ; Taeniochorista pallida, Esb-Pet. 
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THE EUCALYPTS OR GUM TREES OF THE 
BRISBANE DISTRICT. 
(By C. T. WHITE, Government Botanist.) 
VII. 
(Continued from the “Queensland Naturalist,” 
Vol. 5, p. 96.) 
11. Eucalyptus resinifera (Red Stringybark). 
Description: — A large tree (or in poor sandy soils 
sometimes reduced to a shrub), with a rough fibrous bark, 
the outermost dead bark bleached a dark grey and usually 
more or less blackened by fire; inner bark dark reddish- 
brow'll. Young branchlets angular but soon becoming 
rounded. Coppice leaves or leaves on young trees not 
markedly different from those of the adult, but not so 
falcate; lanceolate in shape; dark green above, much 
paler beneath ; attaining up to 7 inches in length and 2 
inches in breadth, but usually much smaller; apex acute, 
tapering to a tine point; base cuneate ; petiole variable; 
in the smaller leaves fin., in the larger ones up to fin., 
in length; veins and veinlets numerous, readily visible, 
intramarginal vein very close to the edge, in the larger 
leaves about 1 line from the edge, but in the smaller ones 
much closer. Ordinary (secondary or adult leaves) coria- 
ceous, lanceolate, usually more or less falcate; somewhat 
paler on the under than on the upper surface, though 
this not always discernible in dried specimens; base 
cuneate, upper paid tapering gradually to a long acumin- 
ate apex; petiole f — lin. long, blade up to Tin. long and 
1-Jin. broad, but usually somewhat smaller, averaging 
5 — 6in. long and about 1 inch broad; midrib distinct. 
