976 ON A NEW BUTTERFLY OF THE FAMILY SATYRID^, 



ON A NEW BUTTERFLY OF THE FAMILY SATYEID^. 

 By a. Sidney Olliff, F.E.S., 



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Mem. de la Soc. Ent. de France. 



The species for which I now propose the name Xenica Ella was 

 captured by Mr. Peel at Warra, in the Liverpool Plains district, 

 during the early part of last summer. It exhibits unmistakable 

 affinity to Xenica Kershaioi* a Gippsland species which is allied 

 to X. orichoraf and X. lathoniella. Besides this new form I have 

 received from the Liverpool Plains three Satyridse not pi-eviously 

 recorded from so far north, namely, Heteronympha philerope, Bois., 

 H. cordace, Hubn., and Xenica lathoniella, Westw.| 



Xenica Ella, sp.n. 



Wings above fuscous, with orange-fulvous markings, much as in 

 X. Kershawi, but rather more pronounced. Forewing with two 

 large transverse spots within the cell, one about the middle, the 

 other at the extremity, a similar spot below the cell in the middle, 

 and another beyond the cell on the costa, a minute fuscous ocellus, 

 surrounded by a narrow ochreous ring, near the apex ; above the 

 ocellus an indistinct narrow streak, below a distinct transverse 

 spot ; three lai-ge spots extending from near posterior angle 

 upwards , a hind-marginal series of four very narrow spots. 

 Hindwing with a large black minutely white-centred ocellus near 



*Miskin, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1876, p. 452. 



tMeyrick, Ent. Mo. Mag. XXII., p. 82 (1885). 



+1 do not think that Geifoneura and Argynnina (Butler, Ann. Mag. N. 

 Hist, (3) XIX., p. 164, 1867) are of generic value as the cell of the hindwing 

 varies in shape in the different species. P. achanta, Don., is the type of 

 VVestwood's subgenus Xenica, so that Geitoneura, which is founded on tiie 

 same species, must sink in any case. 



