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the south. From here an irregular system of good rain forests extends 
somewhat discontinuously but with no very wide breaks south to and 
across the Atherton Tableland and farther south along a series of 
plateaus and ranges to the Mt. Spec plateau (Paluma Range) almost 
within sight of Townsville. Much of this forest system lies between 
1,000 and 5,000 ft. altitude, but areas of good rain forest belonging 
to it occur (or occurred before being cleared) also on the coastal plain 
east of the Atherton Tableland and in the Mossman-Daintree region. 
From the southern end of the main tropical rain forest system to 
below Rockhampton is a gap of nearly 500 miles of dry, open wood- 
land broken only (so far as I know) by two noteworthy islands of 
rain forest. One is at about 3,000-4,000 ft. on the crest of the Elliot 
Range, within sight of (southeast of) Townsville but separated from 
the northern rain forests by a low, comparatively dry valley. The 
other, more important island of rain forest is on the Eungella Range 
about 40 miles inland from Mackay, at about 2,000-4,000 ft. altitude. 
Scattered fragments of semi-rain forest, for example near Proserpine 
(Repulse Bay) and Yepoon (Byfield), are relatively unimportant so 
far as carabid distribution is concerned. 
South of Rockhampton, in the edge of the south temperate zone, 
begins what I call the subtropical rain forest system. The first piece 
of (rather poor) rain forest of this system is on Mt. Jacob east of 
Many Peaks. Other tracts are widely scattered in southeastern 
Queensland at low altitudes as well as on mountains (Blackall Range, 
Bunya Mts., Mt. Tamborine, McPherson Range on the New South 
Wales border, etc.). The different forest tracts vary in quality, but 
the best of them approximate tropical rain forest. This system of 
rain forests extends into northeastern New South Wales at rather 
low altitudes, although much of it has now been cleared. The more 
important pieces that still remain are listed and briefly described in 
my published locality list (1961). The most southern good tract that 
seemed to me to be tropical-type rain forest is on “Mt. Dorrigo”, on 
the lower (eastern) edge of the Dorrigo Plateau, at about 30° 20' S., 
but small pockets of more or less similar forest occur still farther 
south, even south of Sydney, especially in wet ravines. 
South temperate rain forest (see again Figs. 3, 4) is different in 
aspect from tropical rain forest (fewer vines, etc.) and different 
botanically, often dominated by southern beeches (Nothofagus ) . 
Such forest is widespread in southwestern Tasmania and occurs in 
isolated tracts elsewhere in Tasmania (see paper referred to above for 
details). Isolated tracts of similar forest occur on plateaus and moun- 
tains in southern Victoria including the Otway Ranges southwest of 
