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ON AUSTRALIAN RHOPALOCERA. 



By Norman B. Tindale. 



(Contribution from the South Australian Museum.) 



[Read October 11, 1923.] 



Plates XXVIII. to XXX. 



This paper deals with some butterflies contained in the South Australian 

 Museum, and a few notes on synonymy. A list is also given of the species taken 

 by the author on Groote Eylandt and adjacent islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria. 



As a result of the acquisition in 1920 of the Lucas Collection of Australian 

 Butterflies, which includes the Illidge Collection, our reference series (which 

 now comprises some 9,000 specimens), was selected from over 20,000 specimens, 

 including collections from W. D. Dodd, W. K. Hunt, R. Illidge, H. G. Stokes, 

 T. O. Thomas, H. Wesselman, and others. The series also includes most of 

 the types of the species described by Dr. T. P. Lucas, and Messrs. E. Guest 

 and J. G. O. Tepper, the type sexes of one species described by Messrs. Water- 

 house and Lyell, and eight species described by Mr. W. H, Miskin from the Lucas 

 Collection. 



Family NYMPHALIDAE. 



EuBLOEA usiPETEs HiPPiAS, Miskin. 



PI. xxviii., fig. 1. 



The type female, from Thursday Island, described by Waterhouse and 

 Lyell, is now in the South Australian Museum and is figured herein. 



Hypocysta adiante antirius, Butler. 



PI. xxviii., figs. 2, 3. 



Long series taken on Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Island are very similar 



to the typical H. a. antirius, but specimens are generally much smaller. The 



posterior ocellus of hindwings often appears to be scaled above, especially in the 



male, and the wings are more densely scaled than in the Darwin specimens. 



Oreixenica orichora flynnt, Hardy. 

 PI. xxviii., figs. 4-6. 



Oreixenica flynni, Hardy, Roy. Soc. Tas. Papers and Proc, 1916, p. 146. 



$ . Above. Forewings brown, markings black ; markings as in female ; 

 discal spots in areas la and 2 enlarged, that in area la coalescing with subbasal 

 spot ; both reaching to cell. Hindwings as in female. Beneath. As in female. 

 Expanse, 34 mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania : Cradle Mountain, in January, at about 2,000 feet elevation 

 (Messrs. Carter and Lea). Type of male, I. 13055. 



The butterfly was taken in numbers by Messrs. Carter and Lea at the typical 

 locality. The race has not previously been figured ; the plate shows the male, 

 female, and a reverse of the male. 



EuLEPis pyrrhus canomaculatus^ Goeze. 



Papilio canoniaculaiiis, Goeze, Ent. Beytr., III., i., 1779, p. 88. 



Papilio sempronius, Fab., Ent. Syst., III., i., 1793, p. 62. 



Charaxes canomaculatiis, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep. Supp., 1877, p. 748. 



Eulepis pyrrhus sempronius, Waterhouse and Lyell, Butt, of Austr., 1914, p. 51. 



Kirby's correction >of the synonymy as above has been overlooked. The 

 little-known paper by Goeze has been responsible for a number of changes. 



