28 STRAY NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA, 



1866.* Mr. G. Masters! included the species in his Catalogue of 

 Butterflies, on the authority of specimens obtained at Somerset by- 

 Mr. J. A. Thorpe, the taxidermist of the Australian Museum, 

 during a collecting trip which he made to Cape York in the year 

 1867-68, and others subsequently collected in the same locality by 

 Mr. Darnel. The remains of one of the former specimens is in my 

 possession owing to the kindness of Mr. Masters, and I am in a 

 position to definitely state that the insect which has passed for 

 many years in Australia as Libythea myrrha is quite distinct 

 from that species, and is identical with the insect here descril ed 

 under the name Libythea Nicevillei. 



It is hardly a matter of surprise that, once made, the mistake 

 as to the identity of our butterfly should hitherto have escaped 

 detection, as the species is apparently very rare, only one or two 

 specimens existing in collections. As some doubts have been 

 raised as to the claims of the genus Libythea to be regarded as 

 indigenous in Australia, it may be well to state that there can be 

 no question as to the authenticity of the specimens obtained by 

 the collectors mentioned above. 



LEMONIID^E. 



LIBYTH.EIN.E. 



Libythea Nicevillei, sp.n. 



Head, palpi, antennae, and body dark brown. Wings above 

 dull smoky-brown, darker outwardly. Forewing inclining to dull 

 ochreous-yellow at base and on basal two-thirds of inner margin, 

 with the following bluish-white markings : — an elongated spot 

 near costa about two-thirds from the base, divided by a dark vein, 

 an ovate spot at end of discoidal cell, an elongate spot between 

 veins 4 and 6, divided by vein 5, and a much larger rounded spot 

 between veins 2 and 4, beginning at a point just beyond the cell 



*Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S. Wales, I. p. lxi. 

 t " Catalogue of the described Diurnal Lepidoptera of Australia." 

 Sydney, 1873. 



