ON SOME TYPES OF LEPIDOPTERA IN THE NATIONAL 
MUSEUM, MELBOURNE. 
By A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 
In a little work published in 1869 under the title Characters 
of Undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera, by the late Mr. Francis 
Walker, F.L.S., are the descriptions of a number of species which 
it is desirable to identify as far as possible. The work commences 
with 102 species described as new from the collection of T. Norris, 
Esq. Of these, eight are stated to have been taken at Moreton 
Bay, but a large proportion of the species are without locality, so 
that it is quite possible that there are more Australian types among 
them. Whether these types are still in existence I do not know, 
but I believe I have seen some of them in the British Museum. 
I have made an attempt to identify the Australian forms from 
the descriptions. 
12. Inthosia remota is a synonym of Lexis nitens, Wlk. 
24. Turriga invasa is probably a variety of Olene mendosa, Hb. 
26. Entometa adusta is a synonym of Pinara metaphaea, Wik. 
32. Doratifera congrua is a synonym of Susica alphaea, Fab. 
33. Mecytha antiqua IL have not been able to identify. 
37. Antherea insignis is a synonym of Copaxa janetia, White. 
81. Piana lignificta, and 88. Hypopyra fusifascia, Lam not 
able to identify. 
The next instalment is headed “ The following fifty-one species 
inhabit Australia, and are in the National Museum at Melbourne.” 
Through the courtesy of Mr. J. A. Kershaw, the Curator, I have 
had the opportunity of carefully examining these types. They are 
kept in a drawer by themselves, and have been well cared for, but 
bear the traces of previous ill-usage. Mr. Kershaw informs me 
that they were placed in this drawer from a box, which contained a 
label saying that they were “ received in bad condition,” probably 
from damage in the post. Beneath each type is an M.S. name, 
probably in Walker’s handwriting, and these names correspond 
to the descriptions in print. Two of the types are missing, but 
one of these I have identified to my own satisfaction from the de- 
scription. The remaining forty-nine are all Victorian species, or 
at least forty-seven of them, which I have determined. Of the 
two remaining, one is an obscure species of the genus Anthela, which 
will probably be identified some day ; the other is represented by 
thorax and hind wings only, and all that can be said of it is that it 
is a species of Agriophara. Forty-eight of the species are now 
accounted for, and of these forty-eight names, thirty-one are 
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