394 ON RHOPALOCERA FROM THE VICINITY OF MT. BELLENDEN-KER^ 



ON RHOPALOCERA FROM THE VICINITY OF MT. 

 BELLENDEN-KER, QUEENSLAND. 



By A. Sidney Ollifp, F.E.S., 

 Mem. de la Soc. Ent. de France. 



A small collection of butterflies, made by Messrs. E. J. Cairn and 

 R. Crant, at Mount Bellenden-Ker, on behalf of the Trustees of 

 the Australian Museum, is interestins;, as we have at present no 

 information as to the Rhopalocerous fauna of the locality. The 

 collection contains twenty-seven species, of which the majority 

 were obtained on the rich alluvial tracts in the vicinity of the 

 mountain ; a few of them, including Epinephile Helena, were 

 found on the mountain itself, but unfortunately the exact eleva- 

 tions were not noted by the collectors. 



Mt. Bellenden-Ker, attaining a height of 5,500 feet, is the 

 highest point of the range, which is situated some distance south 

 of Cairns. 



The following is a list of the 



Danais plexippus, Linn. 

 Euploea Sylvester, Fabr. 

 Acraea andromacha, Fabr. 

 Atella propinqua, Misk. 

 Argynnis inconstans, Butl. 

 Junonia orithya, Linn. 

 Precis zelima, Fabr. 

 Doleschallia australis, Feld. 

 Diadema alimena, Linn. 

 D. bolina, Linn. 

 Melanitis leda, Linn. 



species obtained : — 



Epinephile Helena, Olliff 

 Mycalesis terminus, Fabr. 

 M. [Coenonympha) infuscata, 



Macl. 

 Hypocysta irius, Fabr. 

 Ypthima arctous, Fabr. 

 Danis taygetus, Feld. 

 Holochila absimilis, Feld. 

 Lycaena boetica, Linn. 

 Terias sp. 

 Delias nigidius, Misk. 



