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of bai-k, ill ci'cicks, under stones, or even just under the surface 

 of the soil. I hope in a future Part to deal fully with the ova, 

 larva3 and pupje of this family, respecting which I have many 

 notes. 



The only previous attempt to deal with the AustralianZ^/cfcmc/ft; 

 is included in Mr. W. H. Miskin's " Synonymical Catalogue of 

 the Rhopalocera of Australia.""^ This work supplied a longfelt 

 want, and must be used as a starting point for any revision of 

 the Australian butterflies; and I am much indebted for the 

 valuable synonymy contained in it. As Mr. Miskin clearly fore- 

 saw, a great many of the names have to be sunk. This I am 

 fortunately able to do, for with a far greater number of specimens 

 representing a larger number of species available for study, and 

 an acquaintance with literature that he had not seen, I am 

 enabled to recognise 114 species of AuntrsiUsin Lyamiche. Of 

 these 94 are in my own collection, and with six others from the 

 Macleay Museum areexhibited to-night; of eight additional species 

 I have seen specimens, and five others are known to me from 

 figures, leaving only one, M. euclides, unaccounted for. Zerites 

 thyra and Lijcaena hypoleuca I do not regard as Australian. 

 Miskin gives a list of 117 different names, 23 of which are marked 

 as representing species unknown to him, so that he was only able 

 to recognise 94 species, two or three of which I believe to be 

 doubtfully distinct. On a careful examination of his list, I find 

 97 distinct species included (excepting Z. thyra and L. hypoleiica) 

 to which I have added 14 new species described since 1891, two 

 new records, while one of his synonyms has been raised to specific 

 rank. The genern he uses I do not at all agree w^ith,. as they are 

 not in accord with those used for the Indo-Malayan Region, 

 whence so many of our species have been derived; nor does he 

 use them in the same sense as the authors he quotes for them. 

 For example, Miskin quotes de Niceville for Lycaena^ Fabr., 

 listing eighteen species, not a single one of which would be placed 

 in that genus by de Kiceville. Again, Moore, Distant, and de 



■" Annals of the Queensland Museum, No. i., 1891. 



