Rhopalocera from the Australian region. 151 
and one or two on the thorax. I only noticed one 
variety of the larve; they were light reddish grey, 
clouded with ochreous-yellow, with the region from 
which the spines spring entirely ochreous-yellow, form- 
in a series of rings; spines reddish yellow; spiracles 
black; a few black dots behind each subdorsal spine ; 
subspiracular skinfold ochreous-yellow, and well de- 
veloped, almost forming a lateral stripe; ventral area 
bluish grey; chrysalis from this variety pale reddish 
orey. 
This butterfly is occasionally to be seen in the vicinity 
of Sydney, but I never met with it there myself. I have 
taken it at Brisbane, Cooktown, Claremont Islands, 
Thursday Island, Fiji, New Caledonia, Friendly Islands, 
New Hebrides, Rotumah Island, Solomon Islands, Gil- 
bert Islands, Marshall Islands, Ellice Islands, Caroline 
Islands, Samoa, Pelew Islands, New Guinea, New Britain, 
and have received it from Norfolk Island. 
Note.—On account of the extraordinary manner in 
which the females vary,—it being extremely difficult to 
obtain two exactly alike from the same brood of larve,— 
a number of new species have been described, among 
which I may mention naresiz, mosleyi, pallescens, pulchra, 
and montrouziert of Butler, and otaheite, Felder. 
Lyceni heathi, Cox. 
This species was local near Sydney, occurring only 
where its food-plant, Westringia rosmarinifolia, a shrub 
of from three to four feet high, and bearing clusters of 
white flowers, grew. This plant was chiefly confined to 
open ground near the sea,—though I found it sparingly 
in one or two localities a few miles inland,—so that the 
butterfly to a great extent is a maritime species. I had 
long noticed that it was only to be found in one or two 
places where this shrub grew, and had a suspicion that 
the larve fed on it, and beat it once or twice without 
discovering any. However, on February 28th, 1885, 
happening to be at one of its localities—a point jutting 
out into Botany Bay—I beat the bushes again into my 
net, and this time succeeded in obtaining a dozen full- 
srown larve of a Lycena, which I thought would pro- 
duce this species. There were plenty of small larva 
besides, but I did not take these. The full-grown larva 
