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the type form as being found in "Townsville and its neighbourhood." He also 

 stated, "The 'female' is dimorphic. I have therefore retained the name 

 genoveva for the pale-blue 'female' as described by Hewitson." He described as 

 races O. sosine-ditaringa from Coomooboolaroo, "N. Queensland" (really 

 Southern Queensland), and O. zosine-magna, from Brisbane. 



Waterhouse and Lyell (1914) gave evidence to show that Hewitson's types 

 came from Moreton Bay (Brisbane), and accordingly restricted the name 

 sosine (correctly so sine) to the race with dimorphic female, from Southern 

 Queensland and Northern New South Wales ; described O. sozine typhon with 

 its purple female f . iberia from Townsville and north, and O. zozine ara.ves from 

 Victoria, while the purple female of typical O. zosine was named f. zenohia. 

 They sank O. genoveva, Hew., and O. zosine-magna, Bethune-Baker, as direct 

 synonyms of z. zosine, as also O. zosine-duaringa, Bethune-Baker, as not suffi- 

 ciently distinct to merit even a varietal name. 



Bethune-Baker (1916) reviewed the synonymy in detail. He stated inter 

 alia, "I definitely selected the dull-purple 'female' as the female type of Hewit- 

 son's species. . . . Hewitson himself had described the blue form as 

 genoveva, . . . and he did so because he had lying before him the dull- 

 purple form of the 'female' as well as the pale-lustrous one, and this alone justifies 

 me in selecting that form as the type form, but, in view of Hewitson's action, it 

 is the only reasonabe thing to do." He also identified 0. zosine ara.ves, 

 Waterhouse and Lyell, the Victorian form, extending to Sydney, as being O. 

 zosine-magna, Bethune-Baker (Brisbane). He stated, "From the descriptions 

 it would appear that the two forms must of necessity be the same; knowing the 

 species as well as I do, I feel quite sure they are." 



Miskin (1883), really the first reviewer, definitely associated the purple 

 male and the light silvery-blue female from Southern Queensland (Brisbane and 

 Dawson River), and described the violet (purple) female as a variety. The 

 fact that he used the name genoveva, llew.=zosine. Hew., does not alter this 

 association in any way, and Miskin himself, although he did not alter the name, 

 was aware of the synonymy (vide Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1890, p. 23). 

 In the absence of further evidence as to the localities of Hewitson's types, 

 Miskin's action would be sufficient, by itself, to fix the typical form as being 

 from Southern Queensland ; while, apart from this, Waterhouse and Lyell's 

 selection of "Moreton Bay" as the type locality, cannot be regarded as "pure 

 guess work," for it is well known that Hewitson received most of his material 

 from Diggles, who lived at Brisbane ; the evidence of the figures points to the 

 Brisbane form, and, according to Bethune-Baker's statement, a further specimen 

 labelled "Moreton Bay" was associated with the species by Hewitson himself. 



Despite Bethune-Baker's statement that he definitely selected the purple 

 form as the female of his typical 0. zosine, it is nowhere definitely stated so in 

 his 1906 monograph. He, however, stated that the name genoveva was retained 

 for the pale-blue female, the above being probably inferred. There is no evidence 

 in any of Hewitson's published work to show that he had before him, and 

 described, the purple female, and, therefore, Bethune-Baker is not justified in 

 selecting it, contrary to Miskin, as the type female. 



Waterhouse and Lyell state that Bethune-Baker did not fix a type form, 

 but on page 278 of the 1906 monograph Bethune-Baker does definitely fix 

 Townsville as the type locality. His selection is overruled by that of Miskin. 



0. zosine-magna is a direct synonym of O. z. zosine. O. z. araxes is the 

 extreme southern race, is apparently not dimorphic, and cannot possibly be 

 identified with the form O. zosine-magna, from Brisbane. The Sydney examples, 

 while brighter than the type of z. araxes, are not sufficiently distinct from it to 

 form an intermediate race. 



