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THE LEPIDOPTERA OF EBOR SCRUB, N.S.W. 

 By a. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 



Ebor is a small township, fifty miles north-north-east of 

 Armidale, in the New England district of New South Wales. 

 Situated on the edge of the New England Plateau, at an altitude 

 of 4,000 feet, it has an abundant rainfall, and is watered by 

 many creeks, which run through deep gullies, carved in the 

 edge of the Range, into the head-waters of the Clarence River. 

 The road from Armidale runs over granite-country, which 

 gradually becomes rougher in character, until it passes 

 through some granite-hills, locally known as the "Snowies," 

 where snow falls and lies for some days, several times in each 

 winter. Shortly before reaching Ebor, one passes into a rich, 

 red-soiled, basaltic area, which grows good crops of potatoes. 

 Walking some five or six miles towards the south-east, across 

 poor granite-country, one comes again to the basalt, which 

 forms a bold spur, known as "Thompson's Lookout," 4,500 

 feet in height, from which there is a magnificent view of very 

 rugged, densely forested hills and gullies, which contain the 

 sources of the Bellinger River. The lepidoptera of this plateau 

 are akin to the Victorian fauna, the most conspicuous examples 

 being large, showy species of the Geometrid genus Cidaria. 

 To the right of the track, for about one mile before reaching 

 the "Lookout," there is a wide, but deep gully, filled with 

 scrub-vegetation. It is something of a surprise to come upon 

 large trees of apparently tropical vegetation, at an altitude of 

 4,000 to 4,500 feet, where snow falls in winter. But a closer 

 inspection shows that many characteristic trees of the coastal 

 scrubs of New South Wales and Queensland are absent. I saw 

 no figs, no nettle-trees, no trees with buttressed trunks ; while 

 the large trees appeared to be referable to few species. Large, 

 cable-stemmed climbers were also not seen, though there were 



