1960] 
Darlington — Carabid Beetles 
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From late February until March 13 we were moving south, re-visiting 
the K irrama Range and Mt. Spec, and reaching two additional, 
important localities: the isolated rain forest on the Elliot Range 
southeast of Townsville, and Mt. Jacob near Many Peaks, where is 
the northernmost rain forest (or semi-rain forest) of the South 
Queensland forest system. 
From Brisbane, March 19 to April 12, 1958, we made a loop 
south to Victoria, to collect on high mountains that had been snow 
covered before. We reached highest altitudes on Mt. Kosciusco, then 
drove south on the Bonang Highway into Victoria (this road cuts 
some fine and apparently unworked collecting areas), then collected 
on the summit ridge of Mt. Baw Baw, on Mt. Buller briefly, on 
Mt. Hotham again, and at Pretty Valley on Mt. Bogong. Returning 
north we touched Exeter and Ourimbah (type localities) in south- 
central New South Wales, Bellangry Forest northwest of Wauchope, 
Point Lookout again, and localities in the extreme north of New 
South Wales. 
On April 19, 1958, we started another loop, through South Queens- 
land, working rain forest areas, the most important being on the 
Bunya and Blackall Ranges. Then, beginning May 6, we spent a 
week at Binna Burra on the McPherson Range on the Queensland- 
New South Wales border. 
Beginning May 23, 1958, we flew back to Cairns, collected along 
the Black Mt. road north of Kuranda, flew halfway up the Cape York 
Peninsula to Coen, and from there were taken by Lea Wassell to 
Silver Plains and the Rocky Scrub (rain forest) on the east side of 
the peninsula. Returning from this trip, we stopped for nearly a 
week at Shiptons Flat and Mt. Finnigan, about 25 miles south of 
Cooktown. 
We were back in Sydney June 17, 1958, and from there circled 
through the southern Blue Mts. (Springwood) , the Burragorang 
Valley, Burrawang, etc. 
We started the flight home from Sydney June 25, reaching Boston 
the afternoon of June 29, 1958. 
All specimens collected reached Boston safely, and have been 
mounted and labeled and are ready for study. We got little except 
Carabidae and a useful series of ants collected by my son. We had 
neither time nor strength for general collecting. 
