2 26 Waterhouse and Lyell, Australian Hesperidae. [^'"^a hi^'' 



T. -phigalioides and T. iacchoides are more closely allied to each 

 other than to T. maheta. We therefore have no hesitation in 

 raising the two supposed varieties to specific rank. 



Trapezites maheta. 



Trapezites iacchoides. 



Trapezites phigalioides. 



Trapezites iacchoides, Waterhouse. T. maheta, var. iacchoides, 

 Waterhouse, Victorian Naturalist, vol. xx. (1903), p. 56. 



When describing this species as a variety, it was known by a 

 single male example only. A series of that sex has since been 

 secured, and Mr. G. M. Goldfinch (to whom we are greatly 

 indebted) took a single female at Como (13 miles south of 

 Sydney) in November, 191 1. The silver markings of the under- 

 side of the female hindwing, and the differing genitalia as 

 illustrated, leave no doubt of its claim to specific rank. We 

 now give a description of the female, the type of which is in the 

 Waterhouse collection. 



Female. Above. Forewing dark brown : a large sub- 

 quadrate spot in end of cell, orange, hyaline, with a small dot 

 above it, orange : a transverse subapical series of three small 

 spots, pale orange, hyaline : a large elongate discal spot in 

 interspace 2, and a much smaller one in base of interspace 3, 

 orange, hyaline : a quadrate spot, before half from base, in 

 interspace i, bright orange, and a narrow streak along dorsum, 

 pale orange : cilia brown, at veins brown black. Hindwing 

 brown-black : a broad central band bright orange : a faint 

 streak in cell orange : cilia grey-white, at veins brown. 



Beneath. Forewing brown : apex broadly and costa narrowly 

 salmon-grey : basal half of cell narrowly pale orange : spots as 

 above, that of interspace i paler. Hindwing salmon-grey : a 

 spot in cell, another in interspace li, and a discal series of six 

 spots (that in interspace ih much the largest), silvery white 

 margined black : cilia salmon-grey, at veins brown. 



Expanse (one wing), 19 mm. 



