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This species is easily recognized by the colouration and 

 absence of markings of hindwings. It is nearest augiaSy 

 Linn., but is a much larger insect, and although augias 

 shows some geographical range of variation it does not ap- 

 proach the species under notice so as to be confused with it. 



Ballina, New South Wales (Richmond River) ; taken in 

 February. Mr. Waterhouse informs me that so far as he 

 knows this species is confined to the above district. 



Types in Coll. Waterhouse. 



Erynnis trichopepla, n. sp. 

 (S 9 > 38-46 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen 

 bright-orange-yellow ; palpi and tfiorax beneath pale-yellow ; 

 posterior segments of abdomen ringed with blackish above, 

 beneath wholly yellow. Antennae dark-fuscous, club reddish- 

 yellow. Legs bright-yellow. Forewings elongate, triangular, 

 costa straight, termen oblique, gently rounded; blackish-fus- 

 cous, with bright-orange markings ; a broad costal streak, 

 leaving extreme costal edge fuscous, from base posterior ex- 

 tremity of cell, intersected by veins at posterior extremity ; 

 cell filled in with orange, except a small patch at posterior 

 extremity ; 3 obliquely-placed elongate cuneiform spots be- 

 tween veins 6 and 9, posterior extremity excavated and finely 

 continued along both edges of veins to termen ; an oblique 

 series of 5 somewhat quadrate spots from vein 1 to vein 6, pos- 

 terior edges strongly excised and continued as fine lines along 

 both edges of veins, nearly or quite to termen, excisions filled 

 in with black, anterior edges of 5 spots irregularly crenulate ; 

 a broad dorsal streak from base to beneath middle of 1st 

 quadrate spot ; an elongate patch of hairs lying on vein 1 

 near base ; cilia orange, strongly mixed with fuscous on 

 upper half of termen. Hindwings with termen rounded ; tor- 

 nus prominent ; colour as in forewings ; markings orange ; a 

 moderately large tuft of. orange-yellow hairs springing from 

 base of vein 7 ; vein 1 similarly haired from base to posterior 

 edge of postmedian band : an ovoid spot in posterior extrem- 

 ity of cell ; a rather broad postmedian band, edges irregularly 

 crenulate, extending from vein 1 to vein 7, broadest on vein 1, 

 where it is continued as a fine line to termen and more 

 thickly to base ; cilia orange-yellow. Underside orange-yel- 

 low, distinctly mixed with greenish, especially along termen ; 

 markings of upperside reproduced in orange : ha^ial third of 

 cell blackish ; a series of 7 well-defined black spots at pos- 

 terior extremities of apical and quadrate spots, 4th and 5th 

 spots also edged anteriorly by a small black spot : dorsum and 

 wing below vein 1 wholly black. Hindwings pale-greenish- 

 yellow ; markings of upperside reproduced in pale-orange ; 



