May, 1927 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
39 
Amongst parasites which attack larva and pupa, also 
ovum, are various Hymenoptera Diptera, etc., but these 
are not within the scope of this paper. 
Papilio fuscus capaneus Westwood" 
This is a rare species about Brisbane, though quite a 
fair number has been taken at Bulimba. Some few years 
ago I saw a specimen flying leisurely up Queen Street ana 
into the garden, where now stands the Pnion Bank. 
Though not so bright at P. aegeus its spatulate tails give 
it a more elegant appearance. Tn colouration it is mostly 
coppery brown, with a band of creamy white spots 
diminishing towards dorsum on forewing. The hind-wing 
has a large discal band, as in figure, of a creamy white, 
a red tornal spot and sub-terminal spots of orange and 
blue. Beneath it is similar in colour and markings. Both 
wings above have white incisions, more distinct along the 
hinder wings,* and in fore-wings are rayed by darker 
brown along the nervures. 
Though rare about Brisbane, we found this insect 
quite common at Yeppoon, one of the Rockhampton 
beautiful watering places, in October, but did not attempt 
to capture any. The butterfly is found throughout the 
Queensland coastal districts, rarely reaching the other 
side of the ranges, but has been, taken by us at Killarnev. 
Tts food plants are as in P. aegeus. The larva is marked 
like that of P. aegeus, but is quite distinct in form, as also 
is the pupa. Several larvae were taken on the foliage of 
a mandarin orange in our garden, but only one specimen 
emerged perfect, the rest being parasitised by a fly. 
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BIRD PROTECTION. 
It is pleasing to learn from the recently issued Bulle- 
tin of the International Committee for Bird Protection 
of the election of Mr. G. IT. Barker and Mrs. W. M. Mayo 
as Queensland representatives on the International Com- 
mittee. The committee is the direct result of a meeting 
held at the home of Mr. Reginald McKenna, London, in 
June. 1922. The meeting was presided over by Dr. T 
Gilbert Pearson, of America, and after free discussion it 
developed that it was the unanimous decision of all 
present that the creation of an International Committee 
* Capaneus, a noble Argive killed by a thunderbolt during 
the Theban War. 
