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We formerly placed this species in Erynnis, Sen., but 

 that genus is immediately known by the minute apiculus of 

 club of antennae, and so far as is known has no representatives 

 in Australia. Elwes gives comma, Linn., as the type of the 

 genus Erynnis. Mr. Meyrick, in his handbook, places that 

 insect in Pamphila, Fabr. 



Type d , in Coll. Felder; type $, in Coll. Mus. God. 



Sydney to Cape York; from November to February. 

 Larvae feed on various palms. 



,: Mr. Waterhouse tells me that Felder described this 

 species from specimens obtained by Frauenfeld from A. W. 

 Scott when in Sydney. Scott had given the M.S. name of 

 palmarum to this species, according to Felder. In Scott's 

 Australian Lepidoptera (pi. xiv., 1890) the name of pal- 

 marum, Scott, appears on the plate, and phineus, Cramer, 

 on the explanatory plate. The latter name, i.e., phineus, 

 originated with Mr. G. F. Matthew, who, when breeding the 

 species, misidentined it with the Surinam species. The reason 

 why the name appears as palmarum, Scott, on the plate and 

 phineus, Cramer, in the text is that the plates were struck 

 off many years before the notes of Scott were published by 

 A. S. Olliff. 



87. C. TRICHOPEPLA, LOW. 



T.R.S., S.A., p. 315, 1908. E. palmarum, M. and L. (nee' 

 Moore), I.e., p. 110, 1902. 



We "formerly called this palmarum, Mre. (an Indian 

 species), which the <$ resembles somewhat above, but the 9 

 is totally different, being similar to the d ; whereas in pal- 

 marum the 9 i s dark-brown, with yellowish markings, and 

 has not been taken in Australia up to the present. 



Types in Coll. Lower. 



Through the kindness of Mr. H. J. Elwes I have been 

 fortunate enough to examine S and 9 specimens of Moore's 

 palmarum. They are hot to be confused with trichopepla. 

 The drawings in P.Z.S. are excellent, and indicate the Indian 

 palmarum with certainty. Unfortunately the under-side is 

 not delineated. 



Mackay to Port Darwin; from November to March. 



88. C. augustula, Herr.-Sch. 



Pamphila augustula, Herr.-Sch., S.E.Z., p. 79, n. 58, 1869. 

 Erynnis augustula, M. and L., T.R.S., p. 109. 



Townsville, Queensland. One specimen; in October 

 (Dodd). The type came from Fiji.: '.....: 



