PREFACE, 
ix. 
coast line. It is a peculiarity of our Lepidopterous (Rhopalocera) 
fauna that it is almost entirely restricted to the coast country ; a 
very few species, comparatively speaking, frequenting the country 
beyond the Dividing Range, say 100 miles from the sea, and I do 
not know of a single species that is not found within fifty miles of 
the sea. 
It will be apparent from the context that I limit my Australian 
region to the continent of Australia, the island of Tasmania, and a 
few islands in Torres Straits adjacent to the mainland. 
I give a complete Bibliography, and I think it will be found 
that very few, if any, works containing notices of our fauna have 
been omitted. Many works are still inaccessible to me, but these 
comprise almost exclusively European periodicals containing but 
scattered references, and to but a few species. 
The species which are reputed to be Australian, but in support 
of which the evidence is not conclusive, I include in a list, together 
with those known to have been located as Australian by mistake, 
at the end. 
W. H. M. 
Brisbane, November, 1890. 
