July, lg2t 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
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Wahlenbergia , He lip tern m , and Helichrystim. I must, 
however, not omit Erodium cygnorum , closely allied to 
Geranium , a true cranesbill, with small blue flowers. This 
was a very English-looking plant to inhabit Central 
Australia. Locally it is known as crowfoot, and is said 
to be good fodder. 
Insects were not so plentiful as I expected. Indeed, 
except for some common species, which abounded every- 
where, they appeared to be scarce, and required diligent 
search. This was not made easier by the swarms of 
Plutella maculipenniSy the diamond-back cabbage pest of 
gardens all over the world, which had certainly not here 
fed on cabbages, nor by the large numbers of the two 
JTortricids, Ancosina plebeiana and Argyroploce doxi- 
castana } together with some larger forms, such as 
Loxostege afjfinitalis, Acid alia rubearia, Neocleptna 
punc.tifera y and Heliothis obsoleta. But by setting myself 
to the task I did better than appeared likely at the first. 
Of butterflies I saw eleven species. Once, about mid- 
day, an example ot Papiho stimulus flew past near 
enough to be recognised with certainty, though I had no 
chance to catch it. Waterhouse and Lyell remark that 
this is an inhabitant of the dry interior districts. Catop- 
silia pyranthe was seen hovering over its food plant, 
Cassia pleurocarpa. I saw it close and it could have been 
nothing else, unless it were the form lacteola } which I 
believe to be the same species ; for I have taken both forms 
pairing. The other nine species were all captured. 
Anaphilis java was fairly common, as was Terias smilax. 
An unexpected find was an Elodina, which I took to be 
augustipennisy but which turns out to be padtisa, Hew. 
Unlike other species of the genus, padusa has been taken 
only singly on the coast and tablelands. I observed it 
fluttering over a Capparid bush and captured four 
examples In two minutes, which is, I believe, a record. I 
think it probable that the real home o { padusa is the 
interior, but that, being of wandering habits, it occa- 
sionally visits the coast in small numbers, especially in 
dry seasons. 
Precis villida and Pyrameis kershazvi were abundant, 
the former worn, the latter very fresh. Among the 
Lvcaenidae Z;zina labradus and Macaduba biocellata 
were not rare, and in the vegetable gardens near the creek 
I took two of the ubiquitous Lampides boeticus among 
some broad beans. But the most striking capture was 
Ogyris amaryllis, Hew., of the race meridionalis , and 
