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alternately ; the lower corner of posteriors is scalloped and 

 marked with three semi -lunar black spots (central one largest), 

 inner edge of same bordered with white. The underside of all 

 the wings is light brown, edged by a sharply defined dark line, 

 succeeded by brown and white zigzag lines ; the black spot 

 above is reproduced below. Parallel but disjointed white lines, 

 bordering dark brown spots, form an almost continuous band 

 across both wings ; another and similar set is nearer the base, 

 and between them an oval spot of similar tints. The male is 

 smaller and darker in hue, and without the black and white 

 fringe of the female, which latter has the white much more 

 abundantly arranged in patches and bands. The appellation 

 refers to the numerous bands of the underside. 



Cupido adamapuncta, spec. nov. 

 Ph II., fig. 16. 

 This sj)ecies is smaller still than the preceding, not quite 

 seven-eighths of an inch in span, and occurs at the same locality. 

 Its colour is a clear bronze brown, traces of the changing blue 

 appearing only near the base of the wings and the upper side 

 of the body ; two lighter coloured spots near the outer edge mark 

 the anterior Avings, and two round black spots, near the margin 

 at the inner corner, the posteriors. The underside is of a 

 delicate tan colour, two rows of bead-like, brown and white 

 coloured spots form a double band along the margin and a 

 similar coloured bar near the centre mark the anterior wings, 

 while the posterior ones present a succession of four or five 

 similar bands, but fainter in tint. Two small eye spots opposite 

 the black ones on the upper surface, but glittering like 

 diamonds set upon black velvet, are the chief characteristic of 

 this rare insect. 



Cupido (sp. indet.J 

 Pl.IL.fig. 3. 

 The Cupido sp., fig. 3, is the smallest in the province known 

 to me, and occurs in the same locality as the former — all along 

 the foot of the Barossa Hanges in bushy parts. It is of a pale 

 blue and blackish-grey superiorly, the wings rather long and 

 narrow. It is not numerous, and frequents flowers of JBursaria 

 spinosa, and other shrubs in spring and summer. 



Ogyris otanes, Felder. 



Pl.ni., fig.l. 



Bef.—Reise Xovara, Lepidopt. ii., p. 217, t. 28, f . 1-3, 1865. 



Only the female of this species is represented by fig. 1, 



t. 3, as the male is of the same general colour and outline, 



but is about one-third smaller and devoid of the yellow spots 



on the anterior wings, which, however, in a somewhat modified 



