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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN RHOPALOCERA: 

 LYCENIDyE. Part iv. 



By G. a. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S., and R. E. Turner. 



[It is with very great pleasure, I have to announce that my 

 friend, Mr. R. E. Turner, has consented to join with me in my 

 studies on the Australian Rhojmlocera; and that in future papers 

 on this group Avill appear over our joint signatures. I must here 

 express my thanks to my friend for the generous help he has 

 given me in the past, both by the gift of specimens and by his 

 opinion on many difficult questions. — G.A.W.] 



Since the revisional part of the Australian LyaxnidcE appeared 

 last year, we have had further opportunity of studying this 

 family, and are now able to offer further evidence in confirma- 

 tion of some of our views and also correct a few errors. 



Mr. H. H. Druce has kindl}^ examined a number of specimens 

 forwarded to him, and in many cases has compared these with 

 the types. He has forwarded us critical notes thereupon, and 

 these he has allowed us to publish. 



One of us has been able to examine the de Niceville collection 

 in Calcutta, and this has enabled us to correct one or two errors. 



In the revisional paper in these Proceedings (for 1903) 115 

 species are recognised as Australian. Of these Miletus eucletus, 

 Feld., is not Australian; Mr. Druce writes that the specimens 

 (39) recorded by him from Thursday Island are referable to M. 

 narcissus, Fabr. We have also decided to omit Lycanesthes 

 emolus, Godt., as we feel confident that the specimen forwarded 

 by Mr. Lower, labelled Mackay, is really an Indian specimen. 



The following species we are inclined to regard as rarely 

 occurring in Australia, or as possible aberrations : — Danis syrivs, 



