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further notice, when the lungs begin to work a septum is formed' 
which completely separates the two auricles, and the future 
circulation is the one peculiar to the adult frog. 
The lecture was profusely illustrated by diagrams. 
NOTES ON SOME OF OUE VICTORIAN MOTHS. 
By J. P. MrLDEE. 
Eead before the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club. 
Order — Lepidoptera. Section — lELeterocera. 
Family — Sphingidw. 
The first moth I shall notice is one belonging to the above- 
family. In January, 1897, a large caterpillar was brought to- 
me from Highton, near G-eelong ; it was about two inches long, 
of a brown colour, with two lemon coloured stripes along the 
sides, also eight blotches on the back and the same number of 
short bands connecting the two side stripes together, all of the 
same colour, each stripe being at an angle of about 45 degrees. 
The horn on the end of the posterior of the caterpillar being 
red. The insect was very restless and would not feed ; thinking 
it might want to change, I put some earth in the bottle with it, 
it buried itself at once in the earth, and on looking at the 
caterpillar on the 4th of February, it had changed into a 
chrysalis ; this was of a reddish brown colour, about 1|- inches 
long, and it had a trunk or proboscis about f of an inch, 
partly curled up. The perfect insect emerged on the 28th of 
February, being, roughly speaking, about a month in the 
chrysalis state. The moth is about 2\ inches across the wings, 
with beautiful brown blotches, its body being banded with 
black and red stripes, one of the bands behind the thorax 
being white, which gave it a very pretty effect, the proboscis 
being also long and red. This moth is called Protopace (Burm),. 
Convolvuli (Linn), or the Convolvus Moth.* 
The commonest Hawk Moth we have here is the suffused 
Hawk Moth, ClicBrocampa Scrofa (Bdv.), this is often captured 
about Geelong in the month of January. The fore wings are 
a rich brown, hind wings, crimson with black border. Cater- 
*NoTE. — In comparing this moth with the Convolvus Moth {Sphynx 
Convoluli) of Europe, I find although the perfect insects appear the same, 
neither the caterpillar or the chrysalis are alike, the marking on the 
caterpillar of the European species being different, and the chrysalis being 
without the long trunk of our species, consequently our moth must be 
an undescribed species of the same family. I secured a second specimen 
of this moth a few days after, which was probably the female, as it was 
not so brightly coloured as the first one described. 
