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Platycolaspis australis, sp. n. 



Pale testaceous ; head obscure fulvous ; the apical joints of the 

 antennae and the tarsi more or less fuscous ; thorax opaque, finely 

 granulose-punctate ; elytra strongly and very closely punctured, 

 interstices finely, transversely wrinkled, the sides with a narrow 

 longitudinal ridge. Length, 2 mm. 



Head very finely rugose, dark fulvous, opaque, sometimes with a 

 central dark spot or stripe ; maxillary palpi slender, apical joint 

 pointed ; antennas extending beyond the base of the elytra in the 

 male, shorter in the female, lower five or six joints pale, rest fuscous. 

 Thorax short and transverse, the surface finely granulate or rugose, 

 opaque, distinctly sulcate at the sides, interior of the sulcus often 

 darkened. Elytra more shining than the thorax, very closely and 

 strongly punctured, the punctures more regularly arranged in rows 

 from the middle downwards, the interstices anteriorly transversely 

 wrinkled ; a more or less distinct narrow ridge runs downwards from 

 the shoulders to near the apex. Legs rather darker ; metasternum 

 often stained with piceous, shining and impunctate. 



Hab. Hobavt, Tasmania (Lea). 



AN ENTOMOLOGICAL VISIT TO NORTH QUEENS- 

 LAND AND TO NATAL. 



By Hubert W. Simmonds, F.E.S. 



I LEFT Wellington on Christmas Day, 1906, by the turbine 

 steamer * Maheno ' for Sydney, where I caught the Howard 

 Smith boat (steamship ' Bombala ') for Townsville. Brisbane 

 was reached on the 30th, where we had a couple of days. I 

 spent some time in the Botanical Gardens, where I found the 

 beautiful larvae of Euploea corinna. This larva is very con- 

 spicuous, having three pairs of long black protuberances on the 

 first three segments, and also another pair on the next to the 

 last segment. The pupa of this insect is one of the most lovely 

 objects I have ever seen ; the first day it is all pale green, but it 

 quickly changes into a delicate mother-of-pearl, striped with 

 three rows of burnished gold on each side, and also having five 

 small brown dots on either side. Other butterflies noticed here 

 were Papilio sarpedon, Char axes sempronius, Hypolimnas bolina, 

 AcrcBa andromache, Danis taygetus, and a species of Delias 

 which I did not get close to ; also Neptis shepherdi and worn 

 Papilio cegeus. 



From Brisbane we had a pleasant run north to Townsville, 

 passing several schools of porpoises, and threading our way 

 through the beautiful green islands which line the coast inside 

 the great Barrier Reef. Townsville was reached on January 4th, 

 1907. Here it was very hot and dry, and my results during the 



