49 The Cane Grubs of Australia. 
DISTRIBUTION AS REGARDS HABITAT. 
Distributed throughout the cane and forest lands in the vicinity 
of Gordonvale. this species is not common. It has been found under 
canestools, in ploughed canefields, in ploughed corn and grass fields, 
beneath grasses, native and otherwise, and beneath logs, pieces of board, 
&e., in forest and eultivated lands. It has also been found from virgin 
jungle, Babinda, Cairns district, from ploughed canefields, red voleanic 
soil, Childers, 8.Q., from ploughed paspalum and eane fields, Murwil- 
lumbah, N.S.W., black-loam soil. 
Of the total number collected around Gordonvale, 36 are from forest,. 
erasses, &c., and 81 from cane. 
Also, 33,000 yards plough furrows, forest, grasses, &e., yielded 2 
larve; 61,670 yards plough furrows, canefields, 57 larve. Both sets of 
data thus show a majority in ecanefields, but here again the records are 
scanty and not of great value. 
DISTRIBUTION IN UPLAND AND LOWLAND SOILS. 
As is to be expected, since the rich black loams around Gordonvale: 
are mostly lowlands, and the red voleanic soils are mostly upland, end 
since the larve of this show, according to our data, a decided preference 
for the loamy soils, upland soils yielded very few larve. Of our total 
number, only 5 are from upland soils, 71 coming from lowland. 
AM EUR let Uf e2A 
None obtained. 
MAK ADULT: 
EMERGENCE. 
Adults have been obtained in our cages on the following dates :—— 
October 4, 23, 27; November 12; December 1, 10, and 15. It has also: 
been obtained on the following dates :—I rom soil near cane-roots, Finch- 
Hatton (Mackay), N.Q., October 17; from soil in canefield, Gordonvale, 
November 29; from soil beneath log in forest, Gordonvale, December 4; 
from soil eight inches under surface, roadway, Gordonvale, October 15. 
Nothing is known as to the habits of the species. 
LENGTH OF LIFE OF BRED ADULTS. 
A pair of adults found in one of our cages on October 31 was kept 
for length of life; the male died on December 1, the female on December 
12, both unfed. 
No. 678. 
The larve of this species has been found very plentifully in decaying 
heaps of cane, ight sandy loam, around Gordonvale, from end of March 
to end of August, all being in Stage III. One larva was found pupating 
on August 24. The adult has not been reared, but is probably one of the 
smaller brown or black scarabeids. 
