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After feeding for two days they attached themselves to 
side of box, head downwards, and pupated- on February 
16th. They hatched out on 21st February by breaking 
the pupal skin. When newly hatched they were quite 
yellow, and in a very short time you could see the little 
black spots appearing, and in about half an hour they 
were perfectly black. 
Two daysafter I caught the Leis conformis IT found 
two of Coccinella repanda, and put these into a box, 
where they laid eggs on February 6th, and hatched on 
February 10th. But the larvae were yellow little crea- 
tures at first, and as the day went by became black. Af- 
ter changing the first skin, February 13th, they had a broad 
yellow transverse band on second segment, on third two 
short transeve orange bars, and running down from be- 
tween these a longitudinal yellow band. The anal seg- 
ment was yellow, also slight yellow marking on outer edge 
of body. (They thus differ from larvae of Leis conformis, 
which has two broad yellow or orange bands on body, also 
at side of body.) These little larvae, on changing their 
second skin, were a dull red brick colour, and in three 
days pupated, February 19th. On February 24th the back 
of pupal skins slit open and out stepped the ladybirds. 
They were at first yellow, then the black marking instead 
of spots appeared, and in about an hour the ladybirds 
were ready to fly. I am also working out the Pest Lady- 
bird,’’ 28-punctata. 
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NOTES ON THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF DHEP 
CREEK, CASINO, DECEMBER, 1914, AND 
JANUARY, 1910. 
By Miss F’. M. Irby. 
The small-leaved Kurrajong, Commersonia echinata, 
is in flower; the flat-spreading boughs, like giant wedding 
bouquets heaped one above the other, their flowering period 
lasts longer than that of most bush trees. Frequently 
there are tiny beetles, green as emeralds, hidden in the 
flowers, and sometimes big grey beetles, with very long 
antennae, lie hidden against the branches; but they are 
so much like the bark that they are hard to find. 
There is another tree with thick bunches of small 
white blossoms flowering now, but I do not know its name; 
