139 



^varying from golden-fuscous to dark-fusoous ; costal and 

 basal areas clothed with orange scales ; markings golden- 

 orange, placed as in iacchus; spot on vein 1 bright orange, 

 .and more or less anteriorly suffusedly mixed with golden 

 hair scales and continued to base; a bright orange streak 

 on dorsum from base to middle; cilia orange, basal half 

 ^dark-fuscous. Hindwings dark-fuscous; basal and dorsal 

 hairs long, orange ; median band orange, shaped as in 

 iacchus, but broader ; cilia orange, with blackish bars at 

 neural extremities. Underside of both wings bright 

 orange-fulvous, lower § of forewings dark-fuscous, markings 

 of upper-side reproduced, but paler; cilia as above. Hind- 

 wings with 5 spots placed as in iacchus, that in the cell being 

 the largest, white, ringed with black; the 4 remaining spots 

 *are 'much smaller, and are sometimes wholly blackish without 

 the white centres, all spots larger in 9 • 



Type in Coll. Hewitson, British Museum. 



Plotz places eliena, Herr.-Sch., as a synonym of donnysa, 

 Hew. (S.E.Z., t. 3, f. 13, 1869), and eliena, Hew., as a 

 synonym of iacchus, Fabr. 



Macedon, Gisborne, etc., Victoria; Como, Sydney, etc., 

 New South Wales; Brisbane to Mackay, Queensland; 

 Deloraine, Tasmania ; Mount Gambier, South Australia. 

 Twenty-two specimens ; October to January. 



Plotz's locality for ccecilius, i.e., India, is an error. 



51. T. eliena, Hew., var. monocycla, nov. var. 

 T. iacchus, A. and S. (nee Fabr.), Vict., Butt., p. 115. 



6 $, 34-44 mm. Head, thorax, etc., as in eliena. 

 Forewings somewhat more elongate than in eliena, mark- 

 ings placed as in eliena, but deeper coloured. Hindwings as 

 in eliena, but median band deeper orange and hardly sepa- 

 rated by veins. Under-side of both wings as in eliena, but 

 all markings of hindwings absent except the large cellular 

 spot. This is such a well-marked variety that it can be con- 

 veniently separated. It is at once recognized by the single 

 cellular spot on hindwings beneath. 



Mount Gambier, South Australia (November) ; Gisborne 

 and Berwick, Victoria (December). Four specimens. 



52. T. symmomus, Hb. 

 Zutr., ex. Schmett, figs. 225, 226, 1823; Math., T.E.S., 1888, 

 p. 188; Staud., ex. Schmett, pi. c, 1888; Vict., Butt,, pt. ii., 

 p. 114, 1894; M. and L., T.R.S., p. 86; Telesto praxedes, M. and 

 L. (nee Plbtz), T.R.S., p. 86. 



Type ? 



We formerly quoted Telesto praxedes, Plotz, as a synonym 

 of this species, but are now satisfied that praxedes is identical 



