Zoology.] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. [Insecls. 



lu the two species of Pyrameis on our plate tlie pupa is 

 suspended head downwards by the tip of the tail only, as in others 

 of the fomily Nymjjhalidce (hence sometimes called suspensi) and 

 generally in those groups having the front pairs of legs aborted. 



Like all of the sub-family NymphaliiKe, the species of Pyrameis 

 are remarkably robust and vigorous in habit, and have con- 

 spicuously prominent scaly palpi projecting in front of the head ; 

 long stout antennae ; stout spiny middle and hind legs ; and the 

 unusually deep groove for the reception of the body formed by 

 the inflection of the dilated inner margin of the hind wings. The 

 males, as usual in Butterflies, are smaller than the females, with 

 more slender, compressed abdomen and larger thorax. 



The Pyrameis Itea has received the popular name of Australian 

 Admiral from English collectors in Australia, who recognise some 

 relationship to the European species of the same genus, known as 

 the " Red Admiral Butterfly," to which it has, however, only a 

 generic affinity, the specific characters being totally unlike. The 

 habits are like all of the genus, flying vigorously near the gi'oimd 

 and to seven or eight feet high, frequenting gardens and resting on 

 flowers, particularly Lantana. It is found nearly all the year 

 round and has several broods in the year. 



Explanation of Figcres. 

 Plate 19S. — Fig. 1. female, upper side, natural size. Fig. la, ditto, under side. Fig. \b. 

 diagram of nervures and nervules of both wings (the groove or false disco-cellular nervulcs 

 dotted). Fig. 1/, first leg with hairs sera, '3d off, to show anchyloses of tarsal joints (the two 

 points at end are not claws but coarse hairs), magnified three diameters. Fig. \g, ditto, with 

 its Iiairs seen in profile, magnified two diameters. Fig. \h, ditto, seen in front, magnified two 

 diameters. Fig. \d, second pair of legs, magnified two diameters. Fig. le, third leg, magnified 

 two diameters. Fig. \c, tarsus and claws of i^iri. leg, magnified fifteen diameters. Fig. 2, 

 larva of black variety, natural size. Fig. 3, larva of light-colour variety, natural size. Fig 3fi, 

 anterior portion of ditto, magnified three diameters, showing compound spines (absent from 

 head and first following segment). Fig. 4, pupa, natural size. 



Plate 198, Figs. 5-8. 

 PYRAMEIS KERSHAWI (McCoy). 

 The Blue-spotted Painted-Lady Butterfly. 



Description. ^UPPER SURFACE. — Head, thorax, and abdomen covered with 

 dense golden-brown hairs; antennae blackish-brown tipped with white. Anterior xoing: 

 Basal portion dusky-black, covered with dense golden-brown scales and hairs; apical 

 portion from apex to beyond middle of costal margin, including end of discoidal 

 cell, black, the inner edge of the black forming two angular projections directed 



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