40 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
Oct., 1921 
AN ENTOMOLOGIST IN THE INTERIOR. 
(By A. Jefferis Turner, M.D.) 
Part II * 
My midday hours at Charleville were occupied in set- 
ting my captures, but in the evening I searched the lights: 
of the town. Do not suppose that I startled the inhabi- 
tants by waving a net in the open streets. My methods, 
were less obtrusive, and a few boxes and a piece of card- 
board in my pocket my only apparatus. Opposite my hotel 
was the School of Arts. There I sat on the veranda 
under an acetylene lamp reading the Sydney Bulletin,. 
but keeping an eye open for insects. The very first 
evening I took a fine pair of the curious hawkmoth, 
Hoplionema brachyccra (Low), which is peculiar to 
the interior. On this lamp I also took six examples- 
of an allied species, which I believed to be newt, and 
I took these hawkmoths only on this lamp and nowhere 
else. Later in the evening I strolled round the town. 
Fortunately there were no street lamps, but some of the 
shops were brilliantly lighted, and moths were thick on the 
window glass. Ostensibly an idler gazing on the goods 
behind the window, but really scrutinising the moths on 
the glass, it was easy for me to transfer any wanted speci- 
men into my pocket without anyone, unless he had been 
watching me very closely, being any the wiser. In this way 
I took Anthcla reltoni (Luc.), of which the type came from 
Charleville, and which I have received from Adavale. This- 
species was redescribed by Mr. Lower, from Broken Hill, 
but as Lucas’s description is quite unrecognisable by any- 
one who has not seen the type, now in the Queensland 1 
Museum, he is not to blame for that. I took also A nth da 
ast arias (Meyr) ( uniform is Swim, callispila Low, nipJwma- 
cula Low). 
It may be remarked that the naturalist who has seen 
this species only in a cabinet on a background of white 
paper may be struck by its uniform colouring; but, on the 
contrary, one who has seen it under a lamp on a dark night 
will be struck by the vivid contrast of its snow-white spots 
on a dark ground. As every artist knows, colour effects 
may depend much more on lighting and 011 contrast than 
on pigment. 
Many Noctuids, together with some Geometers, Pyrates, 
and Micros, were taken oil these evening rounds. One shop* 
*(For Part I. see July issue.) 
t Since identified as IT. marmorata Luc. 
