A EE VISION or THE AUSTRALIAN SPHINGIDiE. 



By W. H. Miskin, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



[lu'ad hrfure the lw>/al Sorirti/ <if (Jioriislainl, 13Ui March, 1891] 



No attempt has hitherto beem made to present in cue 

 article the various AnstraHan Species of tliis Family, and the 

 material that has been published to date thereon. In the 

 present paper it is proposed to supply this desiderata, and an 

 experience of twenty years' study of the subject in Queensland, 

 during which many of the species have been observed in their 

 several stages, and most of them captured on the wing, the 

 whole with five exceptions being contained in his collection, 

 affords the writer exceptional facilities, and some authority fur 

 undertaking the subject. It is only of late that the numerous 

 scientific works bearing on the matter have sufficiently accumu- 

 lated in coloiiial libraries, however, to permit of the completion 

 of the work. 



My synonymic catalogue of the Australian Rhopalocera, 

 bringing that division up to date, now in the press, and Mr. 

 Meyrick's work on the Micro-Lepidoptera, and several groups of 

 Bombycites and Geometritcs will, with the present paper, con- 

 stitute a considerable advance towards a cunjplete publication uf 

 the known Australian Lepidopterous fauna to date. 



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