ON RHOPALOOERA FROM MT. KOSCIUSKO, NEW 

 SOUTH WALES. 



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

 Assistant Zoologist, Australian Museum. 



Our knowledge of the Rhopalocera o£ Mt. Kosciusko, the 

 highest point of Australia, has hitherto been confined to the four 

 species obtained by Mr. E. Meyrick in January, 1885, and 

 recorded by him in September of the same year in an account 

 of his journey, which, he tells us, was chiefly made in the 

 interests of Entomology, and more especially in search of micro- 

 lepidoptera.* Of the four species obtained by Mr. Meyrick two 

 proved to be undescribed ; the others were widely-distributed 

 and abundant species. 



To this meagre list I am now able to add fifteen species, three 

 of which are new, from material collected by Mr. R. Helms 

 during an excursion which he made on behalf of the Australian 

 Museum in March and April of the present year. As far as 

 Entomology is concerned this expedition was most successful, in 

 spite of the fact that the collecting season was almost over, and 

 Mr. Helms is to be congratulated upon the results of his under- 

 taking. Like Mr. Meyrick, I was in hopes that some form of 

 Satyridse allied to Erehia would be found on Mt. Kosciusko, and 

 I asked Mr. Helms, who is familiar with those found in the 

 mountains of New Zealand, to do his utmost to ascertain if such 

 a form exists, but his efforts met with no success. 



L Pyrameis cardui, Linn., var. Kershawi, McCoy. 

 Moonbar (3-3,500 feet), Mt. Kosciusko (5,000 feet) ; several 

 very darkly coloured specimens. 



2. Pyrameis itea, Fabr. 



Moonbar (3-3,500 feet), Mt. Kosciusko (4,000 feet). 



* An Ascent of Mount Kosciusko. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxii. pp. 78-82 

 (1885), 



