I have seen a specimen of this insect, taken by Mr. E. Guest 

 at Balhannah. It was hovering over apple blossoms when dis- 

 covered. It is a fairly common Queensland species, but hitherto 

 unrecorded for South Australia. 



Danais, Latr. 



6. D. PETILIA, 8toll. 



Pap. p., Supp. Cramer's Pap. Ex., p. 132, t. 28., f. 3, 1787-91. 



Parkside, Waterfall Gully (rather common), Mount Gawler, 

 Blackwood, &c., from November to May. Most common during 

 April, Ijut never very abundant. 



Tepper calls this D. Clirysijiptis, Linn., in his list, a widely 

 different species, and not known to occur in Australia. 



D, Erippus, Cramer. 



Pap. E., Pap. Ex., I., t. 3, A.B., 1775 ; Guest. Tr. Roy. Soc. 

 S.A., voh VIIL, p. 61, 1886. 



^^yn. — D. plexippus, Linn. (Papilio), Mus. Ulr. p. 262, 1764; 

 D. Archippus, Linn. (Papilio), Syst. Nat. 1, 2, p. 767, 1767 ; 

 D. Archippe, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX., p. 184, n. 28, 1819 ; Anosia 

 megalippe, Hh., Samml. Ex. Schm., 1806-24. 



Waterfall Gully and Brighton, two specimens. This species is 

 now very plentiful at Waterfall Gully, frequenting its food-plant 

 (Gomphocarjmsfrnticosus) during April and May. The larva is 

 too well-known to need description, but I may state, so far as my 

 experience goes, the bred specimens cannot compare with those 

 caught on the wing for size or colour. The species is greatly sub- 

 jected to the attacks of a parasitic dipter (the name of which I 

 have been unable to find). It is our tinest species, sometimes 

 measuring 5^ inches in expanse. 



Xexica, Westiv. 

 8. X. achanta, Don. 



Pap. A, Ins. N. H., A. 22, f. 2, 1805. 



Syn. — Tisiphone Achanthe, Hub., Zutr. Ex. Sch., f. 267, 268, 

 1823 ; Lasiomata ocrea, Guest, Tr. Roy. Soc. S.A., Y., p. 35, 

 1882. 



Common during December and January at Waterfall Gully ; 

 also taken near Balhannah. Not mentioned in Tepper's 1881 

 list. 



9. X. Klugii, Giier. 



Sat. K., Yoy. Coq., t. 17, fig. 2, 1829; Tep2)., Tr. Roy. Soc 

 S.A., for 1881. 



