STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. J35 
Some 10 miles on the railway from Kuranda one passes 
abruptly into poor thin Australian forest of eucalypts, wattles, 
proteaceous shrubs, grass-trees, &c. In this plain is the township 
of Mareeba. Proceeding southwards the railway skirts the great 
Atherton Scrub, a dense tropical jungle with large timber at an 
elevation of 2,500 feet. Leaving this, in another 20 miles one 
enters the granite hills of Ilerberton with a typical Australian 
flora, and many Oecophoridaa and Geometridse of southern types 
at an elevation of 3,000 feet. Again, within 10 miles of Elerberton 
is the Evelyn Scrub, a tropical forest at 3,500 feet with many 
peculiar forms. It is not possible to regard this as a separate 
locality from Herberton, as the tropical jungle and Australian 
forest country are so intermixed. Indeed this occurs all over the 
coastal districts of Queensland, the insects of " scrub " and 
"forest" country being largely different — the former mostly 
Malayan, the latter Australian — though representatives of both 
faunas have intruded into each other's territory. Such differences 
of locality occurring in close juxtaposition are an interesting study 
for local naturalists, but impossible to distinguish in a general 
fauna. 
The town of Geraldton, on the Johnstone Iiiver, some 60 miles 
south of Cairns, has had its name officially altered to Innisfail, by 
which name 1 shall quote it in future. Unfortunately it has been 
sometimes confused with Geraldton in West Australia, at the 
other end of the continent. 
The figures placed after localities refer to months of capture. 
