Oct., 1921 
41 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
devoted to fruit and soft drinks was specially well lighted. 
Here I boldly entered, and while my order was being 
attended to, quietly pocketed one or more desired speci- 
mens, leaving the shop richer than the proprietor knew. 
Although 1 kept my methods quiet they could not be 
unknown to everyone. One day my cabman came in with 
“a butterfly.” 1 was surprised to find it to be that fine 
moth Anthercm loranthi (Luc.), not known hitherto from 
further inland than Duaringa. It is a male, smaller in 
size and paler in colouring than coastal specimens. 
Perhaps it represents a local race, but I think it may be 
a new species. My landlord also presented me with 
'One of the Boarmmdce, which I had not taken myself, and 
have not yet been able to identify. Specimens so taken are 
chance captures, and convey little or no information as to 
the habits of the species; but collecting at light is certainly 
profitable, and sometimes a chance capture is of significance. 
For instance, I found an imperfect, dead specimen in the 
hotel, which turns out to be Prasinocyma ocyptera (Meyr). 
It was something of a puzzle why this moth was found only 
on the coast of southern Queensland and of middle West 
Australia. This capture indicates that, like Boarmia 
penthearia, it occurs in a belt right across the continent. 
Most Noctuids are taken at light, but an example of 
(' an thy lid ia eurhythma (Turn.), previously known only 
from examples sent by Dr. Hamilton Kenny from Gfayndah, 
was taken about mid-day, quietly settled in a flowery field. 
One might go on for a long time yet narrating the 
circumstances of particular captures, but I will only say 
that I left Charleville well satisfied, having taken ninety- 
one species of lepidoptera, many of them, especially among 
the micros, being new species. 
By combining the named species from Charleville with 
those obtained from other inland localities, I have obtained 
a list which is printed at the end of this paper for the 
information of those specially interested, it contains nearly 
200 species, but is still very fragmentary, fairly extensive 
in the Noctuiche, but in the micros probably representing 
only a small percentage of the actual fauna'. To record a 
local fauna with any completeness, it is necessary to live 
m the district for several years. It is interesting to com- 
pare my list with that compiled by Mr. Oswald Lower for 
Broken Hill, not a very favoured locality. After several 
.years’ residence he has compiled a list of' over 600 species 
Although this list may contain some errors, I believe it is 
substantially correct, and we may thank the author for the 
only inland local lepidopterous fauna based on continuous 
•collecting. 
