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Oriental Begion, I took three; of Patlasingha phigalia, Hew., two, 
of P. petalia , Hew., one, remarkable among Skippers by having an 
ocellus-like mark on the underside of the hind-wings; Trapezites 
iacchus, Fabr., one, worn; Ocybadistes (?) flavoguttatus, one; Telesto 
doubledayi, Feld., a female, T. perronii, a female, and Oxytoxia ismene, 
Newm. ( parvulus , Plotz), one. 
Conspicuous among the Moths was the Agaristid, Phalaenoides 
tetrapleura , Meyrk., of which I fancy I saw several, but only secured 
a single female; the British Museum has males only, from Queens¬ 
land. Of Syntomis annulata (the typical form) I took three, it is 
evidently very common in the Sydney district. The black and 
yellow Lithosiid, Asura lydia } turned up again. There were but 
two Geometers, Epidesmia tryxaria , Guen., an Oenochromiid which 
is superficially like our Panagra petraria, Hiibn., and Idiodes 
inspirata , Guen., which is doubtfully distinct from mitigata , Guen. 
The sole Pyrale was EndotricJia pyrosalis , Guen. 
Hymenoptera were moderately plentiful. Of Apis ligustica I took 
three, two of them in the deadly embrace of Asilus discutiens , Walk. 
On the characteristically Australian “bottle-brush” flower of a 
species of a Callistemon , I took Prosopis alcyonea , Erichs, (vidua, 
Smith). The blue Crocisa nitidula, Fabr., was brilliant, even for its 
genus. I took but one Dielis formosa, Guer., though others were 
seen. On a Mimosa flower I saw, as I thought, a very fierce-looking, 
black and orange Wasp, it was easy to sweep it off the flower with 
the net, but difficult to coax it into the cyanide-bottle; for some 
occult reason I had an especial fear of that insect, recalling a yarn 
of Commander Walker’s about a specially deadly wasp of those 
latitudes. At last it went into the bottle and I thought no more 
about it, until on getting back to my hotel at Sydney, I turned the 
contents of the bottle out, to find that my Wasp was a female 
Longicorn beetle, Esthesis variegatus, Fabr.! Mr. G. Meade-Waldo 
and Mr. Bowland E. Turner think that its model is probably Ehyn- 
chium abispoides, M.-Waldo, but it is also very like a small male of 
Salius bicolor , Fabr., of which I had caught a female at the same 
place three days before [see Plate VI., Figs. 8, 9]. On the stem of 
a Eucalyptus I found the Sawfly Pterygoplnorus (Perga) cinctus, Klug, 
half-dead. Communities of Camponotus novae-hollandiae, Mayr, 
were not uncommon. 
An expedition to Edward’s Bay, on the north side of the harbour, 
in search of Marine Mollusca was productive of a large number of 
specimens which have not yet been worked out. 
By the kindness of Mr. B. Hedley we attended the annual 
