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proper food plant. JI supposed they must be the larvae 
of the Tailed Emperor butterfly, Hulepis sempronius. 
On hot summer nights we sometimes see solitary speci- 
‘mens of Black and White Bats, Zaphazons flaviventris, 
but you need to be familiar with their note, for they 
usually fly so high that unless you heard them you would 
be unlikely to notice them at all. Although I have only 
seen them fly singly at night, they always seem to live 
together in small colonies in the daytime, far in the hol- 
low spout of a tree. They are beautiful little creatures, 
smooth and soft as the richest velvet, with black backs and 
snow-white breasts. 
In one family of five, which I once procured (and 
kept under a dish-cover to paint), two had breasts of a 
delicate yellow. As they were exactly like all the others 
which I had seen in every other respect, I thought it pos- 
sible that they might be young ones. 
One of the black and white ones had had its wing 
hurt, and I kept it for a long while. I could not find 
out what sort of insects it cared for, so I fed it like a 
young ‘‘’possum’’ on bread dipped in sugar and milk, 
a mixture it Seemed quite fond of. When moving it did 
not seem to use its eyes, but felt its way with the tips of 
its folded wings, and when moving from place to place, o1 
when climbing to my shoulder, always moved backwards. 
Jf hurt or frightened, or even when cold, these bats 
would utter a loud cry, but the ordinary note is not un- 
like the twittering of swallows. But it had not much 
gratitude, for in spite of its seeming tameness, it sud- 
denly discovered one evening that it once more had the 
use of its wings, and flew off without a moment’s warning. 
Some time later J had another one, which I hoped to 
tame, but was going to Sydney just then, and thought no 
one would care to look after it, so I let it go. It flew off 
readily, darting higher and higher in everwidening circles 
until lost in the gathering darkness of the evening sky. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
By L. Gallard. 
Paropsis variolosa is of a yellowish brown colour, 
thickly speckled with pale yellow, the male resembling the 
Coccinellidae in shape, but being over twice the size of 
