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Underside. — Primaries grey-brown, with darker brown short 

 transverse bands and spots margined with white ; discal area 

 ochreous-orange ; three short bands within cell, one near base, one 

 at termination, and one midway; a spot below the central band; a 

 transverse somewhat curved row of five short bands or spots from 

 costa, near apex, towards hinder margin but not reaching it ; an 

 almost obsolete submarginal row of spots. Secondaries grey-brown 

 with darker brown spots generally margined with white, arranged 

 in transverse rows. 



^. Upperside. — As in ^, but the brown of more sordid hue and 

 but a very small discal patch of clouded yellow in primaries. 



Underside. — As in ^, but all the markings more distinctly 

 defined. Fringes as in ^. Thorax and abdomen, above dark 

 brown, beneath light grey. 



Exp. (J 27 mm. ; 5 28 mm. 



This species has a wide range, being found as far north as 

 Rockhampton and round to Adelaide. 



Genus CHRYSOPHANUS, Hub. 

 C. AURiFER, Blanch. 



(Thecla A.J Voy. Pole Sud. t. 3, f. 13-14 (1853) ; T. limharia, 

 Blanch. I.e. texte p. 400, (1853) ; Chenu, (Thecla A.), Enc. 

 d Hist. Nat. Pap. p. 280, f. 489 (1869) ; Butler (Lye. A.), Trans. 

 Eut. Soc. p. 10 (1875) ; Semp. (Chry. A.), Mus. Godff. XIV. Lep. 

 p. 18 (1878) ; L. pyrodiscus, Rosen. Ann. Nat. H. (5), XVI. p. 

 377 (1885) ; Neivm. $ MS. in Brit. Mus. 



This species has become so confounded with L. Lucanus that it 

 has seemed to me desirable to give a note of the synonymy ; and 

 as it is very imperfectly described, a full description of both sexes 

 will avoid future confusion. 



(J. Upperside. — Primaries widely margined on all sides with 

 dark brown, outer margin widest ; discal area triangularly, not 



