A MONOGRAPH OF THK GENTS TISIPHONE Hubner. 17 



T. ABEONA JOANNA Butler. 

 Plate I., Fig. I— 14, 16, 17, 18, 26, 29, 30. 

 Annals Magazine Natural History 1866, p. 286: I.e. 1867, pi. 4, fig. 8. 



Male. Above. Forewing dark brown : a bar near end of cell, and a narrow postcellular bar, 

 obscurely yellowish : a subtornal patch, yellowish : a small subapical ocellus and a large 

 subterminal ocellus between vein 2 and vein 3. black. Hindwing dark brown: an obscure 

 discal line, cream : a subapical and a subtornal ringed ocellus, black margined orange-red. 



Beneath. Forewing dull dark brown : a bar near end of cell and a narrow discal band, 

 cream: ocelli as above but margined cream. Hindwing dull dark brown: a discal and a 

 double subterminal line, cream : ocelli as above. 



The above description is drawn up from a coloured drawing of the type in the British 

 Museum and from Butler's original description. This type specimen was received at the British 

 Museum in 1844 from the Entomological Club and bears an old label "Linn. Soc. N. Holland." 

 It must have been caught at one of the early settlements established in Australia, probably at 

 Port Macquarie. 



At this place (Port Macquarie) I have recently captured a long series of Joanna, including 

 some nearly identical with the type: but as other specimens show almost every gradation be- 

 tween nearly typical abeona and nearly typical morrisi, I have thought it wise to give a large 

 number of figures: all the specimens from which these figures were engraved were caught at 

 Port Macquarie, excepting only fig. 26, and I would draw attention to the following details: — 



Fig. I. Male. Forewing, bands pale orange, nearly as broad as in abeona. Hindwing 

 with a pale orange discal band (15/10/1913). 



Fig. 2. Male. Forewing, bands broad and white. Hindwing with discal band incomplete, 

 white (14/10/1913). 



Fig. 3. Male. Forewing, bands very pale orange, cell spot obscure : subtornal patch nearly di- 

 vided. Hindwing with discal band prominent, cream (12/10/1913). 



Fig. 4. Male. Forewing with markings prominent as (compared with fig. 9 (13/10/1913). 



Fig. 5. Female. Bands broad, white: corresponds to fig. 2 (emerged from pupa in Sydney 

 29/11/1013). 



Fig. 6. Male nearly as in fig, 1; hindwing without discal band (16/10/1913). 

 Fig. 7. Male nearly as in fig. 2: hindwing without discal band (14/10/1913). 

 Fig. 8. Male. Forewing without cell spot, markings pale orange. Hindwing with discal band 

 very indistinct (n/10/1913). 



Fig. 9. Male. Forewing markings narrower than in fig. 4: this is the underside of fig. 17 

 (11/10/1913). 



Fig. 10. Female. Markings cream (15/10/19131 



Fig. 11. Male. Forewing without cell spot: markings narrow and white. Hindwing with 

 discal band complete, white (16/10/1913). 



Fig. 12. Male. Forewing with cell spot faint: subtornal patch divided. Hindwing with discal 

 band complete and white (11/10/1913). 



Fig. 13. Male. Forewing with cell spot: markings very pale orange (14/10/1913). 



Fig. 14. Female. Forewing with cell spot faint (12/10/1913). 



An egg from this specimen emerged on 26th October, attached itself to pupate on 15th Feb., 

 . 1914, became a pupa on 17th Feb., and a male emerged on 6th March 1914. This male 

 differs from the forewing of fig. 18 only in the absence of the cell spot, and agrees 

 closely on the hindwing with fig. 11. 



