1520 0>' HITHERTO USDESCRIBED AUSTRALIA^' LEPIDOPTERA. 
from the Eastern Australian coast — all remarkably well dis- 
tinguished — eight of which are contained in my collection. 
Appendix. 
Upon a recent ^■isit to the Australian Museum I was shown by 
Mr. A. S. OUiff a pair of butterflies, captured by him at New- 
castle, belonging to the genus Zeritis, Boisd., which upon a closer 
examination I recognised as Z. Thyra, L. The appearance of 
this pretty South African insect in Australia is interesting as 
evidencing the manner in which species are dififused through the 
introduction and acclimatisation of plants, which is, of course, the 
only reasonable mode of accounting for this the first known 
instance of its pr^ence here. 
