A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS TIS1PHONE Hrdmer. 19 



T. ABEONA RAWNSLEY1 Miskin. 



Plate I., fig. 15, 20. 



Transactions Entomological Society, London, 1876, p. 45+ 



This is the most northerly race of abcona yet discovered. My specimens are from Caloundra, 

 Xambour and Eummundi, all in southern Queensland: the limit of its range to the north is un- 

 determined. In this subspecies the pale markings above have almost disappeared: only occa- 

 sional females show a faint discal hand on hindwing above. 



Fig. 15 is a male from Xambour (,Oct. Io,I0),and fig. jo is a male from Eummundi. 



TISIPHONE HELENA Olliff. 



Proceedings Linnean Society X.S. Wales, 1888, p. 395. 



Male. Above. Forewing brown, suffused golden brown: a broad discal area from costa at two- 

 thirds to tornus, pale yellow shading to golden brown: apex, termen, and basal edge of dis- 

 cal band to vein 2, dark brown : a white pupilled subapical ocellus, and a large white-pupil- 

 led subterminal ocellus between vein 2 and and vein 3, black. Hindwing brown : termen 

 lined dark brown : a subapical ocellus, black, and a white-pupilled subtornal ocellus, black 

 narrowly margined golden brown. 



Beneath. Forewing as above but paler: a bar across cell at two thirds and margins of dis- 

 cal area to vein J, dark brown: termen lined dark brown: ocelli as above. Hindwing brown: 

 a basal, a discal, and a double subterminal line, red-brown : a large subapical and a subtor- 

 nal ringed ocellus, black narrowly margined golden brown. 



Female. Above and beneath as in male: usually larger. 



This species occurs above an altitude of 1000ft., and chiefly in January and February, in the 

 Cairns District of northern Queensland. It is usually found in the neighbourhood of Cladium, 

 upon which I have no doubt the larvae feed, though 1 have not yet been able to discover either 

 larvae or pupae. Its range both to north and south of Cairns is undetermined: the type came 

 from Mt. Bellenden Kerr. 



