AUSTRALIAN CARABID BEETLES IV. LIST OF 
LOCALITIES, 1956-1958 * 1 
By P. J. Darlington, Jr. 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 
This is a brief account, with list of localities, of a collecting trip 
that I made to Australia from December 1956 to June 1958. My 
wife and fourteen year old son accompanied me. My own travel ex- 
penses were paid in part by a fellowship of the John Simon Guggen- 
heim Memorial Foundation. My purpose was to collect carabid 
beetles in the wetter forests of the whole eastern edge of Australia, 
from southern Tasmania to northern Cape York. The present paper 
summarizes our itinerary and then lists the localities at which Carabi- 
dae were obtained. I had collected at some of these localities previous- 
ly, in 1931-1932, as a member of the Harvard Australian Expedition. 
We reached Sydney December 2, 1956, and proceeded to Tasmania 
December 7. We bought a used (and abused) Volkswagen pickup 
truck in Hobart and traveled and lived in it most of the time there- 
after. 
We stayed in Tasmania until April 5, 1957. Collecting was done 
mostly in the wetter forests there; first into the accessible edges of the 
almost impenetrable southwestern forest (Arve River, Hartz Moun- 
tain, Mt. Field, Florentine River, Zeehan, etc., and later Corinna) ; 
then in mountainous north-central Tasmania (Lake St. Clair, 
Waldheim and Cradle Mt., Great Lake, Waratah, etc) ; and finally 
on isolated mountains and plateaus in the northeast (Mt. Ben Lo- 
mond, Blue Tier, Alt. Barrow, etc.). Although the most extensive 
wet forests are in the south and west, we found some of the finest 
stands of N othofagus (southern beech) on and near the Blue Tier in 
northeastern Tasmania. Lake St. Clair was the best (most diverse 
and richest) Tasmanian locality visited. The most southern locality 
reached was Cockle Creek, about 5 miles from the southernmost tip 
of land. 
On the mainland of Australia, beginning in April, 1957, we 
worked the Otway Ranges southwest of Melbourne, then crossed the 
mountains via Alt. Hotham and Omeo to Canberra, which we 
reached Alay 1, and where we made winter quarters in a rented house. 
’Published with the aid of a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zool- 
ogy at Harvard College. 
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