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THE LARVA. 
DEVELOPMENT or STAGES. 
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The stages have been obtained at Gordonvale on the following 
dates :— 
Stage I. Stage IT. Stage IIT. 
July 7 March 26 March 12, 26 
April 13 April 8, 13, 22 
May 7 May 7 
July 7, 23 June 30 
July 7 
August 3, 24 
September 
October 
November 6 (reared) 
Also Stage Til. at Mossman, N.Q., March 19. These data are not 
sufficient to decide the length of the life-cycle. 
FTABirat. 
Around Gordonvale this species is rather common in the eane 
rubbish-heaps near the Mulgrave River, the soil somewhat sandy; and 
less abundant im the pure sand of the river-bed in company with No. 
655. It is oceasionally found in eanefields, as the following records 
show :—From wet clay loam, ecanefields, Gordonvale, April 15, 1913; 
from sandy soil, under cane-stool, Gordonvale, May 7, 1912; from cane- 
field, alluvial soil, Gordonvale, April 8, 1912; from alongside road, 
erawling over surface of ground, Mossman, March 19, 1912. 
PELE PUPA: 
A single pupating larva from the sand of a river-bed, pupated on 
August 18. The pupa was enclosed in the larval skin, as in No. 655. 
Pupe have also been taken from sand and sandy rubbish-heaps on 
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August 24, September 15, and November 24. 
THE ADULT. 
EMERGENCE. 
Tn confnement, adults have been reared on the following dates :— 
August 26, September 22, November 24. A single beetle was caught at 
a light, Gordonvale, February 5, 1913. Nothing is known farther. 
No. 576. 
THE EGG. 
None obtained. \ 
