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rows of three, five, seven, or three, six, eight, besides three or 

 one small one at the shoulder, so that the total number appears 

 to be always eighteen. 



As they cannot fly, it is difficult to conceive how in a country 

 so/thinly inhabited by animals as that where they are found, they 

 can obtain sufficient food, unless they can resist starvation to 

 an uncommon degree. This appears the case, for some of them 

 still showed signs of life when they were handed to me, after 

 they had been in possession of the donor for many months. 



The commonest species about Adelaide is Trox litigiosus, 

 Har. — a grey beetle half an inch long, and usually found under 

 rather dry carcases of cattle or sheep. It is rather beneficial 

 than otherwise. 



Note on Ogyris Amaryllis, Newra, : an 

 Addition to the S. Australian Butter- 

 flies. 



By Mr. J. G. O. Tepper, E.L.S. 

 [Read July 6„ 1886.] 



It is a notable fact that within some twenty odd years several 

 butterflies, or Papilionidse, have made their appearance here, 

 which formerly were only obtained from Eastern Australia, as 

 for example the red and black Danais Archippus and Danais 

 Chrysippus. To these is now to be added the above, for in 

 [February last I received several specimens from the neighbour- 

 hood of Edithburgh, Y.P., by Mr. ,T. G. McDougall. They do 

 not appear to have been rare at the time and place indicated 

 above. 



The species is described and figured in W. C. Hewitson's 

 catalogue of Lycsenida?, 1862 (issued by the British Museum), 

 page 3, Plate I., figs. 5 and 6, but the description as well as the 

 figures only apply to the female, with which the specimens 

 agree well. The male differs much, and appears to have been 

 unknown to the authors cited. I append Hewitson's descrip- 

 tion of the female, and add that of the male : — 



" Ogyris Amaryllis, Newman, MS. 



" Upper side dark brown. Both wings from the base to 

 beyond the middle light blue. [Upper margin of the same 

 interrupted by a square patch of intense black at the end of 

 the cell. — O.T.] The costal margin of the anterior wing — 



