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themselves to Entomology. Both these gentlemen will report on 
their respective divisions. 
I myself am still in the junior student stage, only recently 
having resumed an active interest in biological matters. I have 
decided to take the “ Droseras ” as my speciality. I think it 
would help to interest members and conduce to good work being 
done if individuals or groups specialised in the different branches. 
We should then soon have authorities to whom our finds might 
be submitted. I found one species of Drosera at Boya, which 
1 have at home, where it appears as if it meant to flower. I also 
got another on this excursion. I have tried to preserve the 
flowers by placing them in a solution of Formalin, but regret 
to say that the experiment was unsuccessful, so I have nothing 
to report on my own special branch. 
At Cannington, Dr. Tratman kindly gave me some plants 
of Bvblis, an interesting genus closely allied to the Droseras and 
especially interesting as there are only two species, the most 
beautiful of which (Byblis gigantea, Lindl.) occurs here. 
C. G. Thorp. 
Botanical Notes. — This proved to be a good excursion 
for botanists, as the swamps held plenty of water and yielded 
a good number of Utricularia and Polypompholyx, as well as 
“ Sun-clews ” [Drosera), and the swamp-loving Prasophyllum. 
Bvblis gigantea is plentiful here, but on this occasion was not in 
flower, though one member had seen it in flower a week before 
in another locality. Among Orchids, Caladenia, Diuris and 
Eriochilus were plentiful, and one single individual of Pterostylis 
barbata was collected. 
In this neighborhood a botanist finds sufficient of interest 
to while away many hours without walking more than ^ mile 
from the railway station. 
Frank Tratman 
Entomological Notes. — Insect life was very scarce owing 
to the cold and wet weather conditions which had been prevailing 
for some days previous to our visit, which retauled their appear- 
ance, so that what few insects we did get required a lot of searching 
for and shaking of bushes. Coleoptera yielded five species not 
previously met with, viz., a fine Diphucephala, two Curculios, 
one Clericl, and one Chrysomelid, 
Lepidoptera, with the single exception of a few very worn 
specimens of the Painted Lady Butterflies ( Pyrameis cardui, var. 
kershawi) were not in evidence, other than in the larval or pupal 
stages ; a few of the large silken cocoons of Darala censor’s were 
brought back for us to hatch out, also two or three of the closely 
protective-colored cocoons, Cosmot riche sp. These latter are 
placed in crevices of the rough bark of the Casuarina trees (on 
