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ones, and this perhaps may haye inclined many to the classing 
of the two as one species. In short, the constant conflicting 
characteristics seem to be of habit, occurrence and colouration; 
these may still be proved to merge in specimens other than 
those I have seen, yet in about eighty specimens of P. australis 
and forty of P. bibronii these respective characteristics have 
never been found to combine or vanish. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
Batancs SHeev.—The Balance Sheet of the Club, which was 
submitted to the Annual Meeting, and adopted, was most 
gratifying. For the benefit of Country Members who may not. 
have seen it, it is herewith given :—Receipts—To balance from 
last year, £41 1s. 3d.; subscriptions for current year from 
Members and from Country Branches, £37 5s.; the sum of 
£1 15s. was paid in advance, whilst £18 10s. was received in 
settlement of arrears; sale of publications, £1 10s. 2d.; 
interest in Savings Bank, £1 9s. 8d.; advertisements in 
Journal, £5 15s.; total, £107 6s. ld. Disbursements—Rent, 
&6 5s. 6d.; printing (Journal and notices), £31 4s.; letter 
box, G.P.O., £1; postage, stationery, advertising and cartage, 
£9 1s. 10d.; Savings Bank balance, £58 1s. 1d.; in hands of 
Hon. Secretary, £1 8s. 2d.; in hands of Hon. Treasurer, 6s. ; 
total, £107 6s. 1d. 
Rare Borrerriy Re-piscoverrp.—Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, 
‘B.Sc , exhibited at the Annual Meeting of the Club a fine male 
specimen of the butterfly named Hypochrysops apollo, by W. H. 
Miskin, in the supplement to his “Catalogue of the Rhopa- 
locera of Australia ” (Brisbane, 1891). The type specimen (a 
male) was found by Mr. R. B. Tirner, on the Herbert River, 
N. Queensland, pressed between the leaves of a book amongst 
‘a number of other undoubted butterflies ‘The specimen was 
much worn and damaged, but sufficient remains in the Queens- 
Jand Museum, where the’ type is deposited, to show that the 
specimen exhibited, which was collected at Cape York, is 
identical with it. Thus after a lapse of severiteen years this. 
handsome species has been re-discovered. Mr. Wotsthodes 
remarked that his setting-boards contained two specimens of 
the undescribed female. 
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attention of members and their friends to Messrs. Gibb and 
-Beeman’s advertisement on. the back of the cover of this 
Journal. The firm has a large stock of all the optical requisites 
of the microseopist and naturalist, and their goods are of the 
best... Members requiring such materials would do well to. 
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