546 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF EBOR SCRUB, N.S.W. By a. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. Ebor is a small township, fifty miles north-north-east of Armidale, in the New England district of New South Wales. Situated on the edge of the New England Plateau, at an altitude of 4,000 feet, it has an abundant rainfall, and is watered by many creeks, which run through deep gullies, carved in the edge of the Range, into the head-waters of the Clarence River. The road from Armidale runs over granite-country, which gradually becomes rougher in character, until it passes through some granite-hills, locally known as the "Snowies," where snow falls and lies for some days, several times in each winter. Shortly before reaching Ebor, one passes into a rich, red-soiled, basaltic area, which grows good crops of potatoes. Walking some five or six miles towards the south-east, across poor granite-country, one comes again to the basalt, which forms a bold spur, known as "Thompson's Lookout," 4,500 feet in height, from which there is a magnificent view of very rugged, densely forested hills and gullies, which contain the sources of the Bellinger River. The lepidoptera of this plateau are akin to the Victorian fauna, the most conspicuous examples being large, showy species of the Geometrid genus Cidaria. To the right of the track, for about one mile before reaching the "Lookout," there is a wide, but deep gully, filled with scrub-vegetation. It is something of a surprise to come upon large trees of apparently tropical vegetation, at an altitude of 4,000 to 4,500 feet, where snow falls in winter. But a closer inspection shows that many characteristic trees of the coastal scrubs of New South Wales and Queensland are absent. I saw no figs, no nettle-trees, no trees with buttressed trunks ; while the large trees appeared to be referable to few species. Large, cable-stemmed climbers were also not seen, though there were
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