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A NEW TASMANIAN BUTTERFLY AND A LIST 



OF THE KNOWN TASMANIAN SPECIES. 



By G. H. Hardy. 



(Received Utli August, 1916. Read 21st August, 1916. 

 Issued separately 3 1st August, 1916.) 



Oreixenica flynni, sp. nov. 



Female. Black-brown. Forewing with three basal 

 spots (consisling of two large spots in the cell, the second 

 beins: confluent with the third, situated at the base of 

 area la.), and a band of irregular discal spots uniformly 

 distant from the basal spots, gold-brown. A band of ir- 

 regular subapical spots reaching to vein 3, containing two 

 unequal black ocelli, red-brown, and a series of small sub- 

 terminal spots, gold-brown. Hindwing with a series of 

 basal and subtenuiiial spots, <?old-l>rowii ; discnl spols goli- 

 brown, and some suffused with red brown, and a subtornal 

 ocellus black. 



Underside; forewing as in 0. orichora, but a smaller 

 second ocellus is present, and the whitish subtenninal spot* 

 are smaller. Hindwing differs from 0. orichora only by the 

 smaller whitish spots, and the slightly smaller subapical 

 and subtornal ocelli. 



The species is undoubtedly a Tasmanian race of 0. 

 orichora from Victoria, and New South Wales, from which 

 the female differs chiefly in the forewing, having tho space 

 between the basal spots and dincal spots uniformly wide. 

 Width across Mangs 29 mm. 



Hab. Cradle Mountain, Tasmania., 3,00Gft. 1 speci- 

 men taken by Prof. T. T. Flynn. Christmas, 1915. 



In the same locality Prof. Flynn also took Neo.renica 

 teprea {Heiuit^) and Arrjynnina toHmanica (Lycll), the 

 first being previously only known from Mt. Wellington, 

 and the latter from the West Coast. 



The following list contains all the Butterflies known 

 to occur in Tasmania. Anaphaeis teutonia is a casual 

 visitor to the island, and has been taken by Mr. F. M. 

 Littler. There are also specimens, evidently caught in 



