Nov., 1925 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
47 
nigrina, Delias nysa and Catopsilia pomona were noted 
by me, but Mr. Pranzen, who travelled fixrther afield, 
■saw several Lycaenid species. Sempronius is an unusual- 
ly late species. 
N.B. — Miletus apelles.— ^Tliis butterfly appears to 
me to be a migrant from its northern habitat. The 
mangrove (Aegieeras majus) was for two or three years 
under almost weekly observation, and I failed to see 
anything of it. All my specimens were from Mackay 
northward to Cooktown. Of another species Miletus 
epicurus, I obtained a long series and distributed many 
specimens amongst friends. Miletus ignita of Leach has 
also been captured very frequently at the flowers. The 
whole genus is notable for the beauty of the species, all 
of which glow with spots and bands of golden green and 
bright red on the under surface. My late collection 
contained all the species known, except M. }>olycletus 
rex, and of them the most ■ resplendent Avas our 
Brisbane form of Miletus delicia, Hewitson. 
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THE WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN 
(Chlidonias leucoptera), 
(With Notes on Terns observed during the Easter Excursion 
of the Naturalists’ Club to Stradbroke Island.) 
By Mrs. W. M. Mayo. 
When crossing Moreton Bay, between Myora and 
King Island, I observed a pair of birds that looked un- 
usual. On close examination I found that the birds were 
a pair of the rare (for the Southern hemisphere) black 
tern. The seas in that part of the bay were heavy, and 
the birds swooped over the seas picking up food in the 
same way as the Gull-bill Tern. I did not see them dive 
at all. About eight years ago T observed several of these 
birds in Moreton Baj^ but have not seen them since, 
until this year. The velvety black bodies of the birds 
had a few oval grey or greyish white patches on them. 
The plumage seemed in process of changing. 
The terns obseiwed in Moreton Ba}^ during the 
Easter Excursion of the Club included : — Crested Tern 
(Sterna bergii) ; Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne easpia) 
very plentiful; Gull-bill Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica) 
rather few; White shafted Ternlet (Sterna sinensis); 
Lesser crested Tern (Sterna medifli) and the Black Tern. 
