PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. XI. 



T. abeona aurelia Waterhouse. 



This is a further and brighter extension of the typical form. It is some- 

 what variable, a few specimens showing a narrow orange band on the hindwing 

 above. It occurs on the coast from north of the Hunter River to Camden 

 Haven. Though this race approaches closely to typical abeona it can always be 

 distinguished from it by the very much brighter and more prominent ring to the 

 subtornal ocellus on the forewing above, a character common to all the races 

 occuning north of the estuary of the Hunter River. For this character then the 

 extensive river flats near the mouth of the Hunter form a sufficient barrier, for 

 probably at no time did the foodplant gTow here, 



T. abeona Joanna Butler. (Plate ii., figs. 794-814, 818.) 



I have endeavoured to secure information as to the place of capture of the 

 type of this subspecies, but without much success. Mr. N. D. Riley of the 

 British Museum writes that the type is apparently one of two specimens received 

 from the Entomological Club in 1844 and bears a small label lAnn. Sac. N. 

 Holland. The specimen was obviously collected some time, probably some years, 

 before 1844. Dr. Jackson, General Secretary of the Linnean Society of London, 

 searched their records and though hei found an enti-y in 1833 of a collection of 

 insects from N. Holland presented by Alexander Macleay, he considers that 

 these particular insects foi-med a portion of those sold by his Society in 1863. 

 However, considering localities available about 100 years ago, I have very 

 little doubt that the type was caught at Fort Macquarie and, if not actually 

 caught by Alexander Macleay, reached England through his instrumentality. 

 Besides the type, five other specimens are in the British Museum (four of which 

 are from the Hewitson Collection) but they do not show such great variations 

 as I have found. Until 1913, when I obtained over one hundred specimens 

 at Port Macquarie, from which the specimens fig-ured on Plate ii. were taken, 

 this form was unknown in Australia. In the spring of 1914, I traversed the 

 coast line from Coff's Harbour to UUadulla, collecting over 500 specimens of 

 Tisiphone and about the same time I received a lai'ge number of specimens 

 from between Clarence Heads and Coff's Hai-boui- from Mr. F. A. Heron, and 

 from south of UUadulla from Mr. H. W. Simmonds. The limits of this variable 

 race {joanna) I would give as about 10 miles radius from Port Macquarie, for 

 at Camden Haven two specimens only had paler bands, and from Crescent Head 

 the specimens, though not quite typical morrisi, were cream and only in one or 

 two eases showed an orange tint. The variability of the race suggested that 

 Joanna was a natural hybrid and caused me to try the experiment of crossing 

 the broad orange-banded form and the narrow cream-banded form. 



T. abeona morrisi Waterhouse. (Plate ii., fig. 817). 



This form I fii'st met with on my first collecting trip to the Richmond 

 River, and for a long time I considered that the name joanna might be applied 

 to it and distributed it under that name. It has a wide range along the coast 

 from Southport, S. Queensland to the Macleay River and it is only at Crescent 

 Head that the influence of the southern orange subspecies begins to be felt, 

 for here an occasional orange tint is seen in the pale markings. It occurs on a 

 spur of the Main Divide at Ebor (4000 feet) where Dr. Tillyard captured some 

 particularly large spe.cimeq,s, on the Divide itself near Hanging Rock, and again 

 at the southern end of the Mt. Royal Range where recently I captured a number 



