Remarks on the Nomenclature of some of 

 THE South Australian Butterflies, ^vith 

 Observations. 



By E Guest. 

 [Bead September 8, 1885.] 



Having given much of my leisure time during the last six 

 years to the study of such of the Lepidopterous fauna as are 

 to be found in the neighbourhood of Balhannah, I wish to 

 place some of the results of my observations before the So- 

 ciety. 



It is quite a mistake to suppose that butterflies and moths 

 are scarce in South Australia ; in places they may be, and the 

 Bhopalocerae are certainly not abundant in species, but all 

 other families are extensively represented, and only want 

 looking for. As a proof of this I may mention that I have 

 taken nearly 500 species within a radius of three miles of my 

 house, and am continually finding fresh ones. A very fair per- 

 centage of these have turned out to be new to science, of 

 <iourse chiefly among the micros, although out of 45 species of 

 Geometrina nine were returned as " not previously described." 

 This makes it very evident that to get anything like a fair 

 knowledge of our fauna we must have more workers, and 

 knowing by experience the disheartening nature of the pur- 

 suit, through the difficulty of obtaining correct specific deter- 

 minations, I thought that I would make an effort to get the 

 nomenclature cleared up, so far as my limited knowledge and 

 opportunities would allow me. 



For this purpose I have remitted specimens of all the doubt- 

 ful species of butterflies that I possessed to Mr. E. Meyrick, 

 B.A., &c., of Sydney, whose kindness and courtesy I cannot 

 speak too highly of, asking him at the same time to identify 

 all that he could of such species as are mentioned in Mr. 

 Tepper's papers, but of which I did not possess specimens. 

 The results of our correspondence I now epitomise in the fol- 

 lowing list, which I believe is correct so far as it goes, but un- 

 fortunately the species of Hesperidae and Synemonidae are 

 difficult of identification without specimens, and many of Mr. 

 Tepper's are consequently omitted. 



As will be seen, our new species have been ruthlessly cut 

 •down — in fact, I very much doubt if there be a single butter- 



