INTRODUCTION. 
In preparing this list of the species of the known Rhopa- 
locera of Australia, I have endeavoured to keep two objects in 
view. Firstly, to produce a list whereby an entomologist in 
Australia may have a ready reference to the best descriptions 
■and figures to be found in works known to be in Australian 
libraries. Secondly, to indicate to entomologists outside Aus¬ 
tralia what forms are recognisable amongst the vast assemblage 
-of reputed or unrecognised species, resulting from the bad 
descriptions of the past. I have sunk as synonyms species <such 
-as Xenica ella , which may in the future have to be regarded as 
varieties, but of which the number of specimens known is too 
few to form any definite opinion upon. 
I have not included a list of'unrecognised species, as these 
mainly occur amongst the Hesjoeridee, and a full list is given by 
Meyrick and Lower (R.A.H.) in Proc. Roy. Soc. S.A. 1902. 
Mis kin also in his Catalogue gives a few, but with these excep¬ 
tions all, I believe, of the recorded Australian species are 
Included here. , 
With regard to No.’s. 7, 13, 16, 17, 89, 101, 247, 265, 328, 
I have only seen the descriptions, and of 97, 106, 120, 184, 188, 
297, I have seen figures and descriptions. The remainder 
represent species that are recognised in Australia, of which 283 
species are contained in my own cabinets, and the other 31 
species in the collections of the Queensland, Macleay, and Aus¬ 
tralian Museums, and of Messrs. R. E. Turner, Gr. Lyell, junr., 
R. Illidge, J. A. Kershaw and 0. B. Lower, who with Messrs. 
A. B. Bell, F. Brown, J. F. Haase and Dr. A. J. Turner have 
:given me many notes as to localities. 
Prior to Kirby’s Catalogue in 1871, no list of Australian 
Butterflies had been published, if we except the descriptions 
and figures of Donovan in 1805. In 1873 my esteemed friend 
■and early instructor, Mr. Greo. Masters, issued a list taken 
mainly from Kirby with corrections and additions from his own 
collections. In 1878 Semper gave an excellent list of the 
butterflies of Eastern Australia from the Grodeffroy Collection. 
This is very valuable, as many first determinations occur in it. 
In 1891 Miskin published his valuable Synonymical Catalogue, 
■which gives a vast mass of references, but unfortunately with 
