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In the said Domain I took a specimen of Papilio sarpedon chore- 
don , Feld., which with fluttering wings was regaling itself at a 
bed of Zinnias. A second very small specimen was taken at 
Balmoral on the north side of the harbour. In the Botanic Gardens, 
adjoining the park, there were numbers of butterflies. Belenois ten - 
tonia, Fabr., was in abundance about the Capparis bushes on which 
its larva feeds. There were many pupae on the Capparis , but for 
some unaccountable reason none of them produced butterflies. Of 
two Precis velleda , a male was “very dry,” a female intermediate. 
Single examples of Polyommatus baeticus , Linn., and Zizera labradus 
were taken. Skippers were very numerous, Telesto perronii, Latr., 
predominating, all captured were males; of Telicota sperthias, Feld, 
(which seems to me to be very closely allied to, if not identical with 
augiades , Feld.), two males and a female were captured. I also 
secured an insect identical with that labelled Ocybadistes (V)flavo- 
guttata , Plotz, in the British Museum Collection. The cosmopolitan 
Pyrale, Zinckenia fascialis , Cram., was abundant among the S. 
American plant, Gomphrena globosa, Linn. One specimen of the 
blue-black Wasp, Discolia soror, Smith, turned up. 
At Bose Bay, a suburb between Sydney and the sea, there is a 
little bush left. This harboured fewer insects than I had expected, 
but there was one that much interested me. Tisiphone abeona , Don., 
is a very handsome Satyr, a large nearly black butterfly with creamy 
markings. It was almost confined to the immediate neighbourhood of 
a small spring—not a common object in the New South Wales land¬ 
scape—and had a remarkably slow, dancing, flapping flight. I could 
not detect any trace of scent in either sex, dead or alive. The only 
other butterflies taken in the bush were single specimens of the 
Satyr, Hypocysta irius, Fabr., and the Skipper — lascivia , Bosenstock 
(for which a generic name is at present wanting), but Zizera labra¬ 
dus was common in a damp meadow below the wood, where also a 
bright green Tryxalis sp., was abundant. I also got at Bose Bay a 
specimen of the Lithosiid, A sura lydia , Don., a black and yellow 
somewhat Syntomid-like moth; two of the Australian Ladybird, 
Coccinella conformis , and a Bombyliid of the genus Anthrax , not 
represented at South Kensington; besides these there were a few 
Ants, Ectatomma metallicum, Smith, found under a stone. 
At Woolahara Point, not far from Bose Bay, I took two Syntomis 
annulata, Fabr., flying late in the afternoon, also single examples 
of the Skippers, Ocybadistes (?) flavoguttatus , and — lascivia , Bosen¬ 
stock. I also saw several of my old friend Zinckenia fascialis , and 
found an Adelium crawling on a rock. Miss Buby Gower kindly 
