The Queensland Naturalist 
April, 1928 
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bena, and such like flowers, and it is amongst these it 
will settle for the purpose of sucking the nectar, and if 
the collector is smart a capture may be made with com- 
parative ease; During my trip to West Australia, the 
only record of its occurrence was in October, 1913, at 
Cunderdin, in the sand plain country, where it, a single 
specimen, was flying swiftly over the splendid wild 
flowers which clothed these plains. On our Downs 
country, near Killarney, in 1901, they were in vast 
numbers on the tall-growing Verbena bonariensis, every 
head of which was crowned with these butterflies. But 
the greatest number I ever met with was on the edge of 
the Jim-bour plain between Jandow'ae and Dalby. They 
were in flight on this occasion, and dashed along at great 
speed, rarely stopping for a moment. It is of little use 
looking for it in timbered country. 
The caterpillars of this insect are green with yellow- 
ish and brown markings. The chrysalis is usually green 
with dark markings though much depends upon its loca- 
tion when pupation takes place. The perfect insect is 
dark brownish-black with sulphur yellow or bright 
ochreous markings; forewings with yellow indistinct 
strigae, hind wings with red tornal spots blue dusted 
above and eye-like spots below and near end of costa. 
Papilio anftctus*, Macleay. The Small Orange Butterfly. 
This does not seem ever to be a very common insect, 
though numbers may be bred from the larvae or even 
the ova. The simplest way to do this if you have the 
orange or other citrus plants on which they live, is to 
take any convenient part of the tree and enclose it with 
fine mosquito, net. In this they will thrive comparative! v 
free frtfm various other insects, birds, etc., which are 
inimical to their existence. About Brisbane the insect is 
quite sufficiently numerous for the entomologist who 
desires specimens for cabinet purposes. It is a rather 
neat if not specially bright species, and the writer who 
described it as smoky-brown must have seen very old and 
faded examples. It is black in general colour, with white 
markings, the white on the forewings being more or less 
dusted with grey; the incisions are white; a sub-marginal 
row, variable in number, of red spots, and above these 
some blue lanules, and it has a short tail-like process m 
male. 
^AnaeTus^Uncertain. may be from Anactes. a name 
given to Castor and Pollux (the Twins) by the Athenians. 
