Koolan Island Zoological notes 
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Papilio canopus canopus Westwood. Listed by Koch 
and van Ingen (1969), but we were unable to 
find any voucher specimens in the W.A. 
Museum collection. Known from the sub-humid 
Kimberley and Northern Territory. Koolan is at 
the southern limit of its range. 
Graphium enrypylus nyctimus (Waterhouse and 
Lyell). Known only from Koolan and the sub- 
humid Northern Territory. 
Cressida cressida cassandra (Waterhouse and Lyell). 
Known from the sub-humid Kimberley and 
Northern Territory. Koolan is at the southern 
limit of its range. 
Nymphalidae 
Euploea core coritina (W.S. Macleay). Koch and van 
Ingen (1969) listed E. Sylvester pelor, but the only 
specimens we have been able to locate in the W. 
A. Museum are E. core corinna, all dated 
between 1965 and 1967. 
Panaus affinis affinis (Fabricius). Occurs throughout 
the Torresian Zone. 
Danaus hamatus hamatus (W.S. Macleay). Another 
pan-Torresian species. 
Panaus chrysippus petilea (Stoll). Known throughout 
mainland Australia. 
Hypolimnas bolina nerina (Fabricius). Throughout 
northern and eastern Australia. 
Hypolimnas missipus (Linnaeus). Pan-Torresian. 
Polyura pyrrhus sempronius (Fabricius). Found 
throughout northern, eastern and south-eastern 
Australia. 
Acraea andromacha andromacha (Fabricius). Occurs 
throughout northern, eastern and south-eastern 
Australia. 
Junonia orithya albicincta Butler. Pan-Torresian. 
junonia villida calybe (Godart). Found throughout 
Australia. 
Vanessa itea (Fabricius). Not listed by Koch and van 
Ingen (1969), although there is a single Koolan 
specimen dated December 1964 in the W.A. 
Museum collection. Previously known only 
from southern Australia. 
Hypocysta adiante antirius Butler. Known from 
the sub-humid Kimberley and Northern 
Territory. Koolan is at the southern limit of its 
range. 
Melanitis leda bankia (Fabricius). Pan-Torresian. 
Xois ardoa arctoa (Fabricius). Occurs throughout 
the Torresian Zone and along the entire eastern 
coast of Australia 
Pieridae 
Pelias argenthotta fragalactea (Butler). Occurs 
throughout the sub-humid Kimberley and 
Northern Territory. 
Anapheis java teutonia (Fabricius). Listed by Koch 
and van Ingen (1969), but we were unable to 
find any specimens in the W.A. Museum 
collection. It is found throughout mainland 
Australia. 
Cepora perimale scyllara (W.S. Macleay). Pan- 
Torresian. 
Catopsilia scylla etesia (Hewitson). Common 
throughout most of the northern half of 
Australia. 
Catopsilia pomona pomona (Fabricius). Common 
throughout northern and eastern Australia. 
Eurema laeta lineata (Miskin). Occurs across 
northern Australia, north of latitude 16°S. 
Eurema herla (W.S. Macleay). Widespread in 
northern and eastern Australia. 
Eurema sana (Butler). Occurs across northern 
Australia, north of latitude 16°S. 
Eurema smilax (Donovan). Found throughout 
mainland Australia. 
Eurema hecabe phoebus (Butler). Common 
throughout most of the northern half of 
Australia. 
Lycaenidae 
Arhopala centaurus asopus Waterhouse and Lyell. 
Known from the Kimberley and sub-humid 
Northern Territory. Koolan is at the southern 
limit of its range. 
Zizina labrudus labrudus (Godart). Occurs 
throughout Australia. 
Prosotas ?nora (Waterhouse and Lyell). Listed by 
Koch and van Ingen (1969); a tentative 
identification based upon damaged specimens. 
Amphibians 
Hylidae 
Litoria rubella. Seen along wet season creeks where 
rock bars form temporary waterholes, in garden 
fish ponds, around the town swimming pool 
and sometimes inside houses during the wet 
season. Numerous at the edge of an ephemeral 
pool in a bulldozer scrape in savanna woodland 
0.5 km south-east of town (R115770, Feb. 1993). 
Reptiles 
Crocodylidae 
Crocodylus porosus occurs at the tideline in 
