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Mackay, Townsville, Kuranda, and Cooktown. Nine 

 specimens ; from March to May ; also from Celebes, whence the 

 type came. 



73. O. sunias, Feld. 



Pamphila sunias, Feld., Sitz., Akad., Wiss., Wien., Math., 

 CI., p. 462, I860'; M. and L., T.R.S., p. 101. Apaustus Wal- 

 ker}, M. and L. (nee Heron); I.e., Hesperia ahrendti, Plotz, 

 S.E.Z., xliv., p. 230 (1883), pi. dexev. Padraona sunias, Swinh., 

 T.E.S., 1908, pi. i., fig. 22, p. 18. 



d 9 , 22-25 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark-fuscous; palpi beneath pale-yellowish, an- 

 tennae spotted with orange, club orange, terminal half and 

 apiculus black, thorax and abdomen beneath yellowish. Legs 

 orange-yellow ; coxae paler. Forewings shaped as in rectivitta, 

 blackish, with orange markings; markings in S as in rec- 

 tivitta, but all much broader than in that species, band nearly 

 twice as wide, and the apical spot (representing subapical 

 series) generally enlarged so as to touch apical spot of band and 

 cellular spot; stigma and cilia as in rectivitta. Hindwings 

 blackish; basal hairs, cellular spot, and postmedian band as 

 in rectivitta, but the band, especially in 9 » twice or more 

 than twice as wide, and the spot on apex of band is rarely 

 separated in either sex (it generally is in rectivitta) ; cilia as 

 in rectivitta. Under-side of both wings, colour markings, etc., 

 reproduced as in rectivitta, excepting that markings are en- 

 larged as above. I think this and the former species are dis- 

 tinct enough at present, the 9 i n each species especially so. 

 It is highly probable that as our knowledge of this difficult 

 group is advanced intermediate forms may be discovered 

 which will necessitate placing them under one species. 



Rectivitta differs chiefly from sunias by the narrower mark- 

 ings and position of apical spots of both fore and hind wings ; 

 the 9 ' s °f the former are distinctly and easily separable from 

 those of the latter; but the rf 's are more, yet not difficult of 

 separation, although some specimens of rectivitta approach 

 them closely. Colonel Swinhoe lent me specimens of authentic 

 sunias from the Solomon Islands which are exactly similar to 

 specimens in Mr. Waterhouse's collection from Murray Island 

 taken in September. The Australian specimens (also those 

 from New Guinea) have the markings above slightly narrower 

 than the Island forms. Swinhoe's figure is not good, and the 

 sex is not mentioned. It appears to represent a different in- 

 sect from the one under review, but the species I have called 

 sunias is typical of those standing in the British Museum 

 under that name. 



Type (? in Coll. Tring, Museum). 



