52 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
The Australian Acan%holepis, subgenus Stegmacris are also 
most interesting. The same of Notoncus and Turneria. 
Briefly, I am always most enthusiastic in Australian ant 
fauna, which, in my opinion, is the most beautiful in the 
world, and if I were younger and had more money I would 
have longed to go to study myself,but at 62 it is too late. 
P.S.—I forgot still the interminable species Camponotus. 
Tt is important to take the two kinds of workers, major and 
minor. Often the major workers are hidden at the bottom of 
the nest and one only collects them as, example, C. eva of M. 
Turner. 
Mr. Field has discovered a regular Eldorado of Formicidae 
at Tennant’s Creek, a new Camponotus fieldellus, extremely 
curious with the head, and the forehead crooked, head enor- 
mous, of which the major and minor worker are entirely dif- 
ferent from the other. 
One finds Camponotus above all under stones, in the ground, 
but also in the trunks of trees. There are certainly a great 
number of species still to be discovered. Mr. Michaelson has 
found an enormous one in Western Australia, CU. molottus. 
Excuse this long letter and believe me, 
Yours very truly, A. Foret. 
WITH THE WINTER BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH 
QUEENSLAND. 
(By G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc., F.H.S.) 
Tur Mecca, towards which the southern entomologist in Aus- 
tralia looks, is the rich tropical scrub of the Cairns district in 
North Queensland. Since the day our friend, Mr. G. Masters, 
showed me in the Macleay Museum the beautiful butterflies 
from this region, it had been one of my great wishes to visit 
this portion of our continent and make observations on the 
butterflies in their own home. The actual possession of the 
different species in my cabinets did not lessen this desire, for 
every true naturalist deems it of great importance to observe 
the forms he studies in their natural haunts, to watch their 
flight, to discover their early stages and not depend entirely 
on cabinet specimens, however beautiful they may be. 
When on the 2nd July last, I went on board the s.s. Bom- 
bala, I felt that after several years’ waiting my wish was at 
last likely to be realised. Though the time chosen was more 
with a view to spending a pleasant holiday without the heat 
of a tropical summer, still I knew that even a tropical winter 
produced some fine butterflies. |My trip throughout was 
marked with fine weather, smooth seas, pleasant travelling 
companions and kind friends at every stage. 
