BUTTERFLIES. 891 



of white; the second patch is long and narrow. 

 The under wing is ornamented with yellow and red. 

 It flies high. 



The larva is dnll brown, and is covered with 

 cream tubercles surmounted by white hairs. The 

 caterpillars are found in great numbers on food 

 plants such as native cherry and mistletoe. The 

 latter plant is the chief food. 



The pupa is erect and girdled. 



One of the "yellows" is the "bordered sulphur" 

 {Terias smila.r), a small, delicate-looking insect, 

 If inches across the wings. The upper surface of 

 wings is bright sulphur yellow, bordered with 

 dusky brown ; under side is yellow. Larva is green. 

 Food plant: found feeding on Cassia fistula. Pupa 

 is keel shaped; erect and girdled. 



Waterhouse and Lyell say: "This, the smallest 

 species of the genus, is the most widely distributed, 

 ranging from Victoria to Cape York and Darwin. 

 It has migratory habit, though in lesser degree 

 than in teutonia and pythias. We have records of 

 a flight in the Blue Mountains lasting from 21st 

 April to 4th May, 1906, and of a smaller flight at 

 Gisborne lasting five or six days in October, 1894. 

 The direction of the flight was north to south in 

 the Blue Mountains, but from east to west in 

 Gisborne." 



