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coloured orange, whieli also speckles the brownish remainder. 

 Examples have been captured or seen at Nuriootpa, Co. Light, 

 Lyndoch, County Adelaide, and Ardrossan, Yorke's Peninsula, 

 and fly low among the grass in November and December. The 

 female measures a little above If inches in span ; the male a 

 little less. The body o£ the former is much attenuated, and 

 extends beyond the lower edge of the wings ; that of the latter 

 is considerably shorter. 



Synemon scaria, Felder. 



Mef. — Eeise Novara, Lepidoptera. 



>S^. scaria is much smaller than S. Icsta, and is known to me 

 in a female alone, taken in November at Ardrossan, Yorke's 

 Peninsula. The upper side of the anterior wings is brown, 

 with mottled whitish bands, enclosing darker spaces ; that of 

 the posteriors is scarlet, with an interrupted black band along 

 margin, and two small irregular black spots in the middle ; the 

 base of both wings is yellowish-brown. The underside of 

 both is chiefly orange coloured, the darker spots reproduced 

 wdth indistinct outlines. The apex and fringe is grey. 



Synemon obscura, spec, nov, 

 PI. III., fig. . 



This species is distinguished by its general dark colour and 

 obscure markings, especially the reddish spots of the posterior 

 wings. It was captured near Lyndoch, Barossa, County 

 Adelaide. 



The illustrations of this and the following species are copies 

 of drawings taken by myself fifteen years ago, of specimens 

 in a collection which has since been scattered. No other 

 examples have come under my observation. 



Synemon livida, s-pec. nov. 

 PI. IIL, fig. . 



Occurs with the last, from which it is distinguished by its 

 livid grey colour and different markings. Blackish lines along 

 the main nerves and edging the margin, and five spots in a row 

 along same, distinguish the anterior wings ; the posteriors 

 present a black line along middle nerve, joining a narrow black 

 transverse band, and between this and the margin four indis- 

 tinct black dots ; all the part below the black band is coloured 

 orange. The figure represents a female. 



This concludes the list of Papiloinidae of South Australia as 

 far as personally examined. Of the larger ones it is very pro- 

 bably exhaustive, but less so of the smaller species, which 

 resemble each other so much superiorly. As it is, I hope the 

 foregoing may be useful as a basis for a monograph of the 

 species of the family inhabiting the province. 



