58 The Cane Grubs of Australia. 
lowland; from red voleanic soil, forest, 350 feet; from forest, red 
volcanic soil, lowland; from yellow clay, natural forest; from roots of 
Imperata grass; from under log, grass in field. Also at Cooktown, from 
under native grasses in jungle, lowland, and from roots of Jmperata 
grass alongside a roadway. 
No. 609. 
Not common, but not so rare as either No. 607 or No. 646. It has 
been recorded at Gordonvale on the following dates:—February 28, 
March 138, April 22, June 14, July 17, 20, August 11, 14, 26; also at 
Cooktown February 28. It has been obtained from the following situa- 
tions at Gordonvale :—From under piece of bark on floor of forest; from 
forest, dark clay leam, lowland; from roots of cane, red volcanic soil; 
from fallow ground, grass, lowland; by ploughing ecanefield, dark vol- 
canic soil, upland; by ploughing cornfield, dark volcanic soil, lowland; 
by ploughing grass and weeds, black loam soil, lowland. Also at Cook- 
town, from under native grasses in jungle, lowland. 
The New South Wales specimens, which differ from the North 
Queensland ones, were obtained as follows:—By following plough, cane- 
fields, under Paspalum grass, May, 1914, four specimens, Harwood, 
Clarence River. 
No. 364. 
One of the dung-feeding series. The larve have often been found, 
excased in earthen spheres, at varying depths (usually 2 feet or more) 
canefields and grass lands, in the neighbourhood of Gordonvale. 
No. 587. 
Known only from the vicinity of Gordonvale, where it is not 
uncommon. Much of our data on this species are valueless, since we 
had confused it with No. 650. The records given, however, are authentic. 
The stages have been recorded on the following dates :— 
Stage I. Stage IT. Stage ITI. 
Nil. March 25 March 31 
April 21 Apuil 1, 15, 17, 21, 24 
May 25 May 1, 25 
October 23 (indoors) June 25 
August 26 
September 4 
November 13 
It has been observed in the following locations :—Voleanic soil, canefield, 
four separate records; forest, clay loam, four separate records; forest, 
red voleanic soil, three separate records; forest, red volcanic soil, 350 
feet; roots of the grass Chrysopogon aciculatus, one record each. The 
adult is unknown. 
