434 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



tlie 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 otlier 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 Hesperiidge. By 

 W. F. KlEBY, 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 Plotz 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 Andersoni. 



Exp. 1^ 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 ; 



