liiC) MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, ETC. 



memoir, together with a large elater Alaus sp., the grub of which 

 devours its larvte. 



TRANSFORMATIONS OF /EGERIA 

 CHRYSOPHANES, Meyr. 



The few notes given upon Aphytoceros hicalis recall to mind 

 some observations made upon the changes of the above rare insect. 



Early in September, some few years ago, we noticed a sore 

 looking spot upon a red ash, Alphitonia excelsa, growing in the 

 Wickham Terrace (Jardens. A branch sprouted obliquely up- 

 ward from near the base of the tree (the branch itself was dead) 

 and at its intersection considerable decay had taken place. 

 Desirous of finding out the cause, we, with a pocket-knife, 

 removed the decaying bark and found a nest of larvie. Carefully 

 transferring the bark and grubs to a box they were taken home, 

 and in a very few days out came one of the lovely little wasp- 

 like moths, probably from a pupa we had not noticed. However, 

 within a month they had all changed and become imagines, so 

 that the patch had just been struck at the right moment. The 

 moths now adorn my own and several friends cabinets. From 

 notes kept I find these larv;e were sixteen-legged creatures, very 

 similar to Aphytoceros. Only once since then have I seen this 

 insect and that was at Gympie ; it was captured flying about 

 some flowers overhanging a small creek, and its wasp-like 

 appearance was very noticeable. 



CASYAPA BEATA. 



Some notes on this insect appeared in the Trans, of the 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. of Qld., but, as I have since succeeded in follow- 

 ing it through all its stages, it may be as well to record these. 



Immediately on emergence from the ovum, which is placed 

 against the margin, and sometimes the point of the leaf, the 

 grub cuts out a portion of leaf, taking care however to leave a 

 narrow connection with the main leaf, the piece so cut it then 

 bends upward and backward over itself until it has succeeded in 

 forming a curious shelter. As these pieces thus cut out shortly 

 turn brown they are readily seen and thus lead to the detection 

 of the caterpillar. Under these singular dwellings it lives until 

 big enough to enter upon another phase in its larval existence, 

 for when about half grown it deserts these, and forms a shelter 

 between two leaves, the upper of which it succeeds in cur^'ing 

 up in a somewhat inverted spoon-like shape. Herein it now 

 completes its larval state and changes to a chrysalis. 



