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meeting of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, and had a 
very pleasant evening; another evening I spent with Mr. G. A. Water- 
house, and his collaborator Mr. G. Lyell, junr., discussing their 
forthcoming work on the butterflies of Australia. One afternoon 
we went to the fine University Building, where Professor David gave 
us tea, illustrated by a private exhibition of a wonderful set of 
lantern slides of the Antarctic Expedition. 
Hobart, Tasmania. 
April 8th and 9th, 1910. 
Our second visit to Hobart gave us part of two days ashore. 
A walk in the Gum-woods above the Cascade Brewery showed them 
to be singularly barren of insect life, probably in great part owing to 
the paucity of undergrowth. Two worn specimens of the Satyr, 
Xenica hlugii , Guer., were taken, also a tattered male of Hetero- 
nympha mcrope, a couple of Emmiltis rubraria, and one Asthena 
visata, both New Zealand friends. I also got two of the Crambid, 
Talis grammellus, Zell. 
The next morning was spent in the Botanic Garden, where Precis 
velleda, small “ dry ” specimens, was flying in swarms about French 
Marigold and Heliotrope. I never saw any of the genus so abundant 
elsewhere. The only other butterflies were the widely-distributed 
but unattractive Zizera labradus and a few females of Heteronympha 
merope. I beat out a Lithosiid, Palaeosia bicosta , Walk., a moth very 
like our Lithosia griseola , Hiibn. 
Melbourne, Victoria, lat. 37° 47' S. 
April llth and 12th, 1910. 
To my mind the magnificent Botanic Garden is the chief glory of 
Melbourne, a city which has the distinction of containing a larger 
proportion of the population of the state of which it is the capital 
than is the case anywhere else. 
Besides plenty of Zizera labradus , a female Heteronympha merope 
and the almost inevitable Eristalis tenax , I had the pleasure of 
taking in the gardens several specimens of Pyrameis itea , chiefly at 
the flowers of the Mexican Lantana sellowiana , Lnk. & Ot. 
The next morning I went to Sandringham, a sea-side resort on the 
shore of Port Philip Bay. On a heath-like expanse were many low 
shrubs of what I took to be Callistemon salignus [Nat. Ord. Myrtaceae\ 
