18 A MONOGRAPH OP THE GENUS TISIPHONE Buhner. 



Fig. 16. Male. Forewing with cell spot faint: markings very close to type (12/10/1913). 



Fig. 17. Male. Approaching rawnsleyi (1 1/10/1913). 



Fig. 18. Male. Forewing with cell spot faint : subtornal spot large and cream. Hind- 

 wing with discal band narrow and incomplete (14/10/1913). 



Fig. 26. Male. Very close to abeona : differs in the more prominent subtornal ocellus of 

 hindwing above, which is much more prominent than shown in figure (Coopernook 

 22/10/1913). 



Fig. 29. Male. Forewing markings faintly tinted orange. Hindwing markings cream 

 (12/10/1913). 



Fig. 30. Male. Markings cream (20/10/1913). 



These figures are from selections from about one hundred specimens of Joanna all taken 

 within a few days and within eight miles of the Port Macquarie Post Office. No one type of 

 variation was confined to a particular area of swordgrass, and orange forms were among those 

 taken from an area on the northern, as well as from areas on the southern bank of the Hast- 

 ings River. At Camden Haven twenty miles south of Port Macquarie, the only two specimens 

 caught were orange forms, and the four specimens from Coopernook another twenty miles south 

 were also orange forms and greatly resembled abeona; a pair from Tuncurry and a single spe- 

 cimen from Port Stephens also differ from abeona in the larger subtornal ocellus on the 

 hindwing above, and are very close to orange specimens caught at Port Macquarie. 



All specimens of this race that might be mistaken for typical abeona may be recognised by 

 the very prominent subtornal ocellus on the hindwing above. I can find very little to distinguish 

 two or three male specimens from the more northerly morrisi, excepting that they usually show 

 a cell patch on forewing above, which I have never seen in morrisi, and the band of the hind- 

 wing is narrower than in morrisi: I have no females that would be mistaken for- morrisi. 



This race I regard as a composite one made up of every intergrade between two stable 

 races, with the characters combined in varying degree. It is probable that this variable sub- 

 species is confined to the coastal districts only and will not be found in the adjacent portion of 

 the Dividing Range. 



T. ABEONA MORRISI nov. 

 Plate I., fig. 19, 24, 25. 



Male. Above. Forewing dark brown : a narrow postcellular bar and a subtornal patch, white : 

 a subapical ocellus and a large subterminal ocellus between vein 2 and vein 3, black faintly 

 margined white. Hindwing dark brown: abroad irregular discal band, white: a subapical 

 and a larger subtornal ringed ocellus, black broadly margined dull orange-red. 



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

 a small subtornal patch, white: traces of a double subterminal line, white: ocelli as above, 

 ringed wdiite. Hindwing dull dark brown: ocelli and discal band as above: traces of a 

 double subterminal line, white. 



Female. Above as in male: subtornal patch of forewing much broader: sometimes traces of a 

 double subterminal line, white. 



Beneath as in male : white markings broader : double subterminal lines much clearer. 



Named in memory of the late J. F. Morris, R.E., through whose efforts I was enabled to 

 capture my first specimens. This subspecies is only slightly variable: examples from Dorrigo 

 and Ebor are larger and their white markings are broader than those from the Richmond River : 

 one female from Dorrigo shows faint traces of a cell spot on forewing above. Fig. 19 is a fe- 

 male (Ballina 5/2/1898), fig. 24 is a male (Ballina 29/9/1902), and fig. 25 is also a male (Bal- 

 lina 11/10/1902). This race ranges from the Bellinger River to Southport in southern Queens- 

 land, and on the Dividing Range near Ebor is taken up to 4000ft. : it has at various times been 

 distributed as T. Joanna Butler. 



