May, 1927 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
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though quite 50 feet or more above, it dropped perpen- 
dicularly on to this mass of bloom. Rushing inside I 
picked up my net, and in a minute or less it was secured. 
It was a poor specimen, but was kept as a trophy for 
some years. Since that time I have seen others, and on 
the 17th March, 1924, my son captured a female, and on 
the 4th April succeeding I got a male whilst it was prob- 
ing the flowers of Tecoma velutina. However, we took 
during three succeeding years (1921, 1923, 1924), on the 
MacPherson Range over 200 specimens, about two-thirds 
being males. During an Easter trip of the F.N.C. to 
Tallebudgera a good many were observed over on Big 
Burleigh, in and about the little piece of scrub which 
adorns this headland. Coming nearer home they were 
Troides priamus richmondius Ova and pupa. 
(After H. Schneider in “The Entomologist," April, 1895). 
formerly abundant at Nerang Creek, and also about 
Southport. In the Blackall Range, during the 1893 floods 
they were observed in thousands on the blossoms of the 
bloodweod and other trees. We have taken them in the 
Gvmpie district, and had a specimen from Maryborough, 
which seems to be its northern range. In two visits to 
the Isis district, it was not seen, though further south in 
the Blackalls, it was strongly in evidence. As we have no 
records of its existence in the main Ranges it seems prob- 
able that this beautiful insect is confined to the coastal 
range jungles, including Tambourine Mountain and the 
country of a similar character eastward. Much of this 
country is familiar to us, but of N.S.W. Bvron, Bay is the 
