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whose yellow bottle-brushes irresistibly reminded me of male 
sallows, however, they yielded nothing but Apis ligustica and some 
obscure little flies. It was too dull and windy to do any good, but 
just before leaving I glanced over some close palings with the result 
that I soon found Zizera labradus , very cryptic ; Hemerophila mundi- 
fera, Walk., and three other moths which puzzled me greatly at the 
time. They were exactly the colour of the fence; their wings folded 
in such a way as to make them resemble a Eootman, or a very small 
Shark. They turned out to be the Geometer, Chlenias carburaria, 
Guen.; a closely allied species is actually called umbraticaria. 
Adelaide, South Australia, lat. 35° S. 
April 14th, 1910. 
We took train to the city and then motor-car to Waterfall Gully. 
There was nothing to be seen save Danaida arehippus and Hetero- 
nympha merope, females. 
Alongside the quay where the steamer was moored, was a 
quantity of made-ground, in part at any rate the result of dredging. 
An almost fruitless search for insects in country very like parts of 
Braunton Burrows only yielded a Crambid, Argyria pentadactyla, 
Zell., and a couple of Earwigs, but a very few minutes before the 
hour of sailing I came across a place where wind and rain had 
exposed immense numbers of marine shells—mostly Gasteropods. 
In a very short time I picked up a considerable number : they have 
not yet been worked out but appear to comprise Fusus, Turritella, 
Conus, Oliva , Bulla, Murex, Natica, Cerithium, Trochus , Pleurotoma , 
Pecten, and Venus. The majority are unquestionably recent, but 
some would appear to be semi-fossilized: among them are numbers 
of Eoraminifera resembling Nummulites. It would have been far 
more profitable had we spent the whole day over these shells, a large 
proportion of which were in excellent preservation. 
Fremantle, Western Australia, lat. 32° 20' S. 
April 18 th, 1910. 
The Great Australian Bight was exceptionally benignant when 
we crossed it, and might almost have set an example to the pro¬ 
verbial mill-pond. At Fremantle we spent such time as was at our 
disposal in driving to Apple Cross, on the Swan River. The bush was 
interesting because curious, but I might have had better collecting on 
