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Ogyris z. araxes, Waterhouse and Lyell. 



O. z. magna, Bethune-Baker (nee Waterhouse & Lyell). 



This is the typically Victorian race of O. zosine. Its extreme northern 

 range is Sydney, where it varies a little towards the typical race. It is apparently 

 not dimorphic, no purple female being known. 



Ogyris zosine splendida, n. subsp. 

 PI. xxix., fig. 12. 



Text fig. C. 

 Ogyris zosine splendida, Tindale, female. 



? . Above. Forewings black ; basal two-fifths light metallic-blue, a discal 

 patch between area 2 and vein 6, cream ; apex- tipped whitish, a small streak in 

 area 7 light blue; cilia whitish, at veins black. Hindwings black, a large central 

 and terminal area light metallic-blue, enclosing three irregularly defined black 

 spots in areas 3 to 5 ; cilia white, at veins black. 



Beneath. Forewings brown ; dorsum grey-brown, apex suffused whitish ; 

 bar at end of cell black ; cell bars broad, white, tinged with bluish, a spot at 

 two-thirds blue; a discal cream patch from near vein 2 reaching vein 10, where 

 it is whitish ; the V-shaped mark external to cream patch broadly black. Hind- 

 wings brown, markings typical ; basal, dorsal and apical areas suffused whitish ; 

 central suffusion rich brown, subterminal suffusion light brown. Expanse, 

 57 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia :, Mount Painter, Flinders Range (H. G. Stokes). 

 Type, I. 13170. 



The greater expanse of light metallic-blue extending to the termen of the 

 hindwings gives this race an appearance very distinct from all the others. The 

 body colour and the down on the hindwing is a light grey. Sufficient material 

 is not available to define ,the range of the race, but a battered female from 

 Fortescue River, North-western Australia, may belong to it. 



Ogyris otanes, Felder. 



PI. xxix., figs. 16-19. 



Ogyris halmaturia, Tepper, Common Native Insects, Adelaide, ii., 1890, p; 12 (part). 

 Ogyris halmaturia, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Ent. Sec, Lond., 1905, p. 277. 



The name O. halmaturia was founded upon two species ; the male described 

 is a typical O. otanes. The type of O. otanes came from Adelaide, and Tepper's 

 specimen from Kangaroo Island. Bethune-Baker, in 1905, examined Tepper's 

 male specimen (he did not see the other described specimen) and separated the 

 island specimens as a distinct species, closely allied to O. otanes under Tepper's 

 name. The comparison of 36 specimens (28 mainland, 8 island) reveals no 

 specific differences. All the specimens from South Australia belong to one 

 species. The male, female, and a reverse of the male are figured, together with 



