List of South Australian Rhopalogera. 

 By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S. 



[Read February 1, 1893.] 



As some ten years have elaiDsed since the publication of Mr. 

 Tepper's list of South Australian Rhopalocera (Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 S.A., 1881), I have deemed it advisable to write the present paper, 

 especially as the list has been considerably augmented by the 

 addition of several interesting species hitherto unrecorded for 

 this colony. It is usually considered, I believe, that the scarcity (?) 

 of Rhopalocera in this colony is due to the great dryness during 

 the season of flight ; also the severe droughts we are subjected to, 

 &e. But my honest conviction is that the scarcity is due to the 

 want of systematic collecting. Unfortunately, we possess but 

 very few energetic entomologists among our members, and until 

 we have more workers must rest content with slow progress in 

 this j^articular branch. It will be gratifying, however, to know 

 that we have found several species new to the colony. In 

 Tepper's list 27 species were said to occur here ; in the present 

 paper I am able to bring the total up to 40 species, chiefly 

 through the diligent collecting of my two brothers — Messrs. 

 Harold and Rupert Lower. I have excluded the doubtful species, 

 a list of which will be found at the end of this paper. All the 

 species have been taken w^ithin a radius of 30 miles of Adelaide, 

 excej^ting the Port Lincoln species, and I have no doubt that 

 when other districts are properly worked our list will be still 

 further increased. 



Papilio, Lian. 

 1. Pap. Ekithonius, Cram., var. Sthenelus, McLeay. 



King's Survey Aust., II., p. 457, n. 133, 1827; Tepi-)., Trans. 

 Roy. Soc, S.A, for 1881. 



Blackwood, Reedbeds, Macclesfield, in October and November; 

 a scarce species ; larvie found at Brighton, feeding on PsoraJeo. 

 adscendens, in February. 



Terias, Swain. 



2. T. Smilax, Don. 



Pap. S., Ins. N.H., t. 20, f. '6, 1805; Te])}^., Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 S.A, for 1881. 



Syn.—T. ingana. Wall, Tr. Ent. Soc, ser. iii.-iv., p. 332, n. 10, 

 1867; T. sinta, Wall, l.c, 1867. 



Parkside, Belair, Blackwood, and Highbury, from November 



