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furnish two genera, but with only one species each, viz., Xenico 

 Klugii, Gner., which is common almost everywhere ; and 

 Heteronympha 3Ierope, one of the largest and finest of our 

 butterflies, but rather rare. It has been captured at Lyndoch, 

 and seen at Ardrossan. The occurrence of Dcmais Chrysippus 

 is very curious, it being at home also in the Grecian Isles and 

 on the Mediterranean shores, according to Dr. Berge. My 

 specimen was caught in Nuriootpa. Of Lycanida several 

 genera are represented, viz., Lyccena discifer, Fabr. ; Cupido 

 bretica, McLeay, C. agricola, and six others ; the largest of 

 which measures one and a half inches, and the smallest only 

 three-quarters of an inch in span. The largest of the family 

 is Ogyris otanes, Feld., occuring in the sandhills near IVuriootpa, 

 which is the only locality I have noticed it. The female has a 

 short, broad cross band of light yellow upon the anterior wings, 

 of which the male is deficient. The Hesperidce furnish one 

 genus, viz., Hesperilla, with two species, both probably new, 

 and rare at the best of times. Of the Uranidce we have four 

 species of one genus, viz., Synemon lata, MacLeay, S. scaria, 

 Feld., and two others, probably unnamed. The genus is the 

 only one, it appears, peculiar to Australia, and is not referred 

 to in G. Master's " Catalogue of Diur. Lepid., 1873 ;" but it is 

 placed here among the butterflies, because the antennae termi- 

 nate with a true club, and they often carry their wings upright 

 like all true day-flyers, while the other genera included in the 

 group do not do so. 



The Crepusculaeja, or dawn moths, are still more con- 

 spicuous by paucity of representatives than the foregoing, and 

 mostly very rare. Of Sphinx there are only two species known 

 to me, both of medium size, viz., two and a quarter inches in 

 span ; one Macroglossa bred from a chrysalis found at Nuriootpa, 

 a species resembling Thyria ; one Zygcena from Monarto, and 

 five of Sesia, or near allies ; thus only showing ten species in 

 five or six genera. 



The Nocttjadjb, or moths proper, furnish the great bulk of 

 species, there being no less than 125 Nociuma, 78 Geometrce, 

 39 Tortricidce, 106 Tineidce, six Pyralidee, and five Alucitce, and 

 their allies. The work of reference chiefly followed is almost 

 exclusively Berge's " Schmetterlings Buch," but the four last 

 tribes are not treated, and therefore only mentioned collec- 

 tively in the sequel. Of the 24 families of nocturnal 

 Lepidopters therein described several seem to be entirely 

 absent, notably the Syntomidce, Heterogynidce, &c, and others 

 are only sparingly represented. 



Of Lithosia three species occur. The AitCTirDiE are repre- 

 sented by the genera Deiopeia, JEmydia, Euprepia, and Spil- 

 osoma. 



