434 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 
the majority of the facts and interpretations which have been 
developed above are most intimately connected with a series 
of other, partly new and partly old, facts which have been 
adduced by other authors; so that it is impossible arbitrarily 
to dispute some of them without subjecting a series of others 
to renewed investigation in various orders. 
LXI.—Descriptions of new Australian Hesperiide. By 
W.F. Kirpy, Assistant in Zoological Department, British 
Museum (Natural History). 
THE butterflies noticed in the present paper were sent with 
others to the British Museum for determination by Messrs. 
Anderson and Spry, who are engaged in the preparation of a 
work on Victorian butterflies. They wished those specimens 
which appeared to be new to be deposited in the British 
Museum on condition that they should be described at once 
and the names communicated to them. All the species were 
taken within the limits of the colony of Victoria. A species 
which appears to be identical with one described by Plétz has 
been added, as the descriptions of this author are not very 
accessible and are cast in a form which often renders them 
somewhat difficult to follow. 
Trapezites Andersont. 
Exp. 12 inch. 
Male.—Upperside golden brown, with a slight purplish 
shade, towards the borders of the wings. Fringes unspotted, 
dark grey on the anterior wings, lighter on the hind wings. 
Anterior wings: a broad pale yellow blotch, with its outer end 
suddenly widened upwards, fills up the outer half of the cell ; 
beyond this are the three usual whitish subcostal spots, and 
there are also two square whitish spots just below and beyond 
the cell, separated by the middle median nervule. Within 
the lowest commences a straight oblique raised line of black 
scales, extending to the inner margin. The base below the 
cell is clothed with dark golden hair nearly as far as this 
black line. Posterior wings thickly clothed with golden hair, 
except along the costa, for two thirds of their length, and 
towards the inner margin nearly to the anal angle. 
Underside pinkish grey; anterior wings with the pale 
markings as above, the space between inclining to blackish ; 
