Rhopalocera from the Australian region. 155 
Preris latilimbata, Butl. (Pl. VL., fig. 4). 
This butterfly was very abundant in all its stages at 
Port Moresby, New Guinea, in November, 1884, and I 
also met with it on April 18th, 1885, at one of the 
Claremont Islands, off Cape Claremont, on the north- 
east coast of Queensland. 
The larve feed upon a straggling thorny shrub bearing 
alternate suboval leaves, and possessing shining pube- 
scent stems, which feel like velvet to the touch, and are 
of exactly the same colour as the larve. The larve live 
perfectly exposed, and when not feeding rest on the 
midrib of the leaf or upon an adjoining twig, and, upon 
being annoyed, throw their heads backwards and remain 
in that position for some time. 
The full-grown larva is 28 mm. long, cylindrical, dull 
pea-green, and thickly irrorated with numerous trans- 
verse rows of small yellow raised dots, interspersed with 
fine short white hairs, especially upon the spiracular 
region; an indistinct and somewhat interrupted pale 
yellowish line just above the spiracles; head the same 
colour as the body, and covered with raised yellow dots 
and short scattered hairs; ventral area pale greenish 
erey. 
The chrysalis is attached to a pad of silk on the under 
surface of a leaf, or to a stem. On several occasions I 
noticed it upon the upper side of a leaf. Its general 
colour is bright apple-green, and it is much angulated. 
The sheath of the haustellum forms a prominent beak, 
the wing-cases are produced into sharp spines, and the 
posterior segments narrow suddenly to a point. A large 
indented and somewhat triangular pale-coloured blotch 
extends across the abdomen; a raised yellow lateral 
ridge from base of wing-case to anal extremity ; abdo- 
minal divisions clearly defined, pale yellowish green, 
with three or four small raised black dots on the apex. 
In some varieties the green is replaced by reddish green, 
and one or two larve which underwent their change in 
a chip-box became chrysalids of a uniform ashy-grey 
colour. 
Pieris teutonia, Fabry. (Pl. VI., figs. 6 and 6 (a) ). 
This species, which seems to be local, was particularly 
abundant near the menagerie in the Botanical Gardens 
