620 ON RHOPALOCERA FROM MT. KOSCIUSKO, N. S. WALES, 



3. JuNONiA VELLIDA, Fabr. 

 Moonbar (3-3,500 feet), Mt. Kosciusko (5-6,000 feet). 



4. Xenica achanta, Don. 

 Moonbar (3-3,500 feet). 



5. Xenica Klugii, Guer. 

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



6. Xenica lathoniella, Westw. 

 Moonbar (3-3,500 feet), Jindabyne (3,000 feet), near Mt. 

 Kosciusko, in March ; common. 



Perhaps a trifle darker than the typical form, but scarcely 

 distinguishable from specimens obtained at Warra, on the Liver- 

 pool Plains. 



7. Xenica orichora, Meyr. 



Mt Kosciusko (5-6,000 feet), in March ; abundant. Expanse, 

 (J 32-35 mm. ; 9 34-39 mm. 



It is a singular fact that amongst some 150 or 160 specimens 

 of the form which I conclude is the X. orichora only two indi- 

 viduals — a male and a female — are to be found which agree 

 satisfactorily with Mr. Meyrick's description (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 1885, p. 82), inasmuch as the hind wing is provided with an 

 incurved ochreous-whitish marking extending from vein six along 

 the inner margin of the ocellus to above the anal angle. In the 

 two exceptions alluded to this marking is split up into five spots, 

 thus answering to the " inwards-curved row of five ochreous- 

 whitish silvery-tinged indistinct pale ochreous spots in a curved 

 low between ocelli," whose presence is alluded to by Meyrick. 

 In all other respects the fine series before me answers to the 

 description of X. orichora. I am inclined to think from the fact 

 that this form, and this form only, is abundant on the higher 

 slopes of Mt. Kosciusko, that it is only a mountain race of 

 X. lathoniella ; but as the points in which it differs from the 

 typical form (chiefly its darker colouring and its greater pro- 

 fusion of markings) appear to be constant, I think it may be 



