108 (HE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST.. 
shortly to be published. In any case the name brachyandrum 
should have been taken up and not abnorme. 
PAROPSIS BEETLE. 
{ By Mary: Futter. 
Harly in April, 1922, I found four larvae on, a gum- 
leaf at Freshwater. They were standing close together on the 
leaf with their heads towards the.middle. The tips of their 
tails: were turned up in the manner of saw-fly larvae. They 
were smooth and greenish-grey, faintly spotted with yellow—the 
heads were large and shining. 
After feeding for a week the larvae crawled on to the 
sand, where they remained in a shrivelled state for four days, 
and finally came out of their larval skins as soft pink pupae. 
On the underside were seen the legs and wings curled up. ‘The, 
eyes and antennae were also ‘distinct. ; 
‘On the upperside the segmented abdomen was very notice- 
able. If touched the pupae moved the tip of their abdomen: 
backwards and: forwards as in the larval state. 
» One emerged on 27th May, and the other three on 28th. 
They: were thick, round beetles with the elytra completely cover- 
ing the wings’ and lapping over the body. ‘Their heads were 
small and turned under—antennae. slender and jointed. ‘The: 
whole of the head, thorax and wing-eovers were of a bright 
orange-red, speckled with yellow. The legs were short and 
flattened at the ends. 
HOW THE LARVAE OF THE GOAT MOTH CULAMA 
CALIGINOSA WORKS. 
By Hiupa M. ORISPO. 
In a ray corner of our ground stood a’ fine specimen of 
Angophora lanceolata. Unlike most of its kind growing on the 
rocks about here, its trunk .grew straight up for many. feet be- 
fore it sent out its twisty, gnarled branches. Evidently the 
struggle for existence had been keen, and, for a time, it ap- 
parently forgot to grow into. its usual fantastical form. ; How-. 
ever, the race habit sooner or later asserts itself as it did in this 
case. -For many years this relic of Gannon’s Fo1est was the 
pride of its gorner. Several eucalypts near by had been bored, 
to. death and° removed, and this finally became the fate of the 
Angophora. a 
