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7, 8 & g. - Do again. Placed many outside on food plants, taking précautions against 

 ants 



14. — Moulting for the third time, waxy wiiite up to now, but appearing in new skin of 

 pale bluisli, with violet tints and a faint whitish powdery-looking coating on the back and sides. 

 Spiracles orange red. Spines yellow with pale blue apices, the 6 spines on terminal segment now 

 disappearing (PI. V, fig. 6). 



20 & 21. — Moulting for the fourth time. Some of the larvae observed to be eating their old 

 skins. They are rather handsomer than formerly, the dorsal blue and ventral green being brighter, 

 the whitish appearanre now possessing the ashen blue of cabbage, the spikes are of a lighter 

 yellow and tips paler blue. Extended length 45 to 55 mm. 



27, 28, 29. — Moulting for fifth and last time, many larvae, as before, eating their discarded 

 skins. About 3,5""' grown now, several a littlc more. Food plants becoming rather bare now. 



30, 31. — Severe cyclone, big branches broken off food plants, several larvae died from 

 effects of the wind and rain 32 inches fell in 48 hours), and others, ailing before, succumbed 

 about this time, having been victimised by diptcra, but I hâve not \-ct had hymcnopterous para- 

 sites from either larvae or pupae. 



Februar\- 7, 8, 9. — There being scarcely any food Icft, and the caterpillars wandering very 

 much, we placed ail but si.x out on trees in the scrubs. No birds interfered vvith tliem, perhaps 

 bei.ause they were \ve!l grown when removed from the vicinily of the house, but several years ago 

 birds destroyed a large number of a brood which I was rearing. 

 9. — One larva, kept at home, commenced to spin up. 



13- — Brought home 7 cocoons containing pupae, or larvae changing. 



15- — Two of the home caterpillars died and two still feeding. 



18. — The last of the two spun up. 



10. — Brought home 9 more cocoons. 



26. — Brought home ail the others cocoons we could &nd, making a total of 29, ail seeming 

 to possess living pupae. 



Some of the moths ma\- émerge in April, others in the winter, but the greater number may 

 not appear until ncxt wet season — January to April. Last April and May (autumn) we searched 

 for and found about 25 pupae Some of the moths appeared in July and August, several before 

 the end of the year, 6 or 7 during February, one on 5"" March, and I still (S"" Marché havc 

 9 hanging up. 



Several years ago we brought home from Port-Darwm N. W. Australia ) a number of pupae 



of A//<iiiis Dohcrlyi, not before found in Australia, and sincc named .4. Doher/yiAVardi by Hon. 



W. Rothschild, from a spécimen of mine a Mr. Ward took to B. M. or to Tring, — to distinguish 



it from the Timor form. Most of thèse emerged within three months time, some up to 6 months 



alter our return to Kuranda, but the last one duly emerged after remaining in pupa for over 



14 months. ^ „ ^ ^ ^ ^ 



^ F. P. DoDD ,F. E. S.). 



Kuranda, Queensland 8 : III : 13. 



