BELATED CAXE BEETLES AND THEIR ALLIES. 67 



Very rarely, too, there is a fourth variety of a rich orange, but this is 

 not constant, merging on the one hand into the green form and on the 

 other into the red variety. 



It occurs botli at Cairns and Innisfail, but is extremely local in 

 its distribution. For instance, in the former district we are aware of 

 its existence only in one small area of an acre or two. Here it was 

 discovered devouring the fresh leaves of young, second-growth blood- 

 woods {Eucalyptus corymhosa) during the first ten days of February, 

 1920, and was quite plentiful. In this same localised area a few were 

 seen on 7tli December, 1920, but it was a fortnight before emergence 

 was general; by 11th January only odd ones were met with, and by 25th 

 January they had disappeared. In this season they were not half as 

 a1)undant as on the former occasion. 



The green variety predominates at the rate of about 4 to 1. Of 

 245 beetles collected during the past season, 199 (81 per cent.) were 

 of the green, 22 (9 per cent.) were of the red, and 24 (10 per cent.) were 

 of the violet forms. 



Three females were dissected on 5th January, 1921. The ovaries 

 had usually one perfect egg, and one or more undeveloped ones, to an 

 egg-tube ; the egg is very large, when compared with those of related 

 species, elongate-oval, and irregular in outline. 



CALLOODES GREYANUS WHITE. 



This conspicuous chafer is widely distrilmted in Queensland, but 

 does uot appear to be numerous anywhere, and in several years' 

 collecting only odd specimens have been taken from feeding-trees or at 

 lights. It breeds in the pure sand of river-beds, and for further infor- 

 mation on the life-history and habits we refer our readers to Girault 

 and Dodd (66), who had considerable data on the subject. In the bed 

 of the Clohesy River, a tributary of the Barron, 80 miles from Cairns, 

 nuiltitudes of the adults that have bred there have been dug up. 



CALLOODES ATKINSONI WATERHOUSE. 



An uncommon species, of which we have seen examples from Innis- 

 fail. It also occurs in company with Anoplostcthus Uetus in that before- 

 mentioned limited area of young bloodwoods near Gordonvale. The two 

 species are found together, but C. atkinsoni is much the rarer, is not so 

 addicted to the very young foliage, and usually frecj[uents taller trees. 

 Its emergence and occurrence at this location coincided with those of 

 A. Uetus. It has been found breeding in association Avith C. grcyanus in 

 the sandy bed of the Clohesy River. 



CALLOODES RAYNERI :\IACLEAY. 



We are not aware of the presence of this species in the Cairns 

 district, but it has been captured at light in the Ingham neighbourhood, 

 and we have seen specimens from the Lower Burdekin. It also occurs in 

 Southern Queensland. 



REPSIMUS iENEUS FABRICIUS. 



Girault and Dodd reared the species from grubs obtained in sandj^- 

 loam or sub-sandy soils. Our only records are of the adult stage. 

 Several were seen on foliage on 26th January, 1920. In the 1920-21 



