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FURTHER NOTES ON THE GENUS TISIPHONE, HUBNBR. 

 By G. A. WATERHOUSE, B Sc, B.E., F.E.S. 



Since my monograph in Part I. of this Journal, I have spent a considerable amount of time in 

 collecting the subspecies nf Tisiphone abeona, and, assisted by various friends, have accumulated over 

 five hundred specimens from southern Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. A detailed study 

 of them must remain over for the present, but the following preliminary results may be of interest, 

 as showing more definitely the limits of some of the subspecies, and also where further information is 

 required. During the spring of 1914 Mr. H. W. Simmonds collected at Bermagui, Tathra and Eden ; 

 Mr. S. J. Turner at Kioloa : I worked the coastline from Ulladulla to Coff's Harbour ; and Mr. W. 

 Heron continued the investigation northwards to the Clarence River Heads. Many other friends 

 supplied me with specimens, but they have no material bearing on these notes ; they will be acknow- 

 ledged when the full investigation of the genus is undertaken. 



Brieflv, the specimens show that the subspecies albijascia is found in Victoria, and extends along 

 the coast to Bermagui in Xew South Wales ; at Kioloa the white discal band of the hind wing beneath 

 is sufficiently reduced in size for the race to be typical abeona, which extends as far north as Newcastle. 

 The Hunter River forms the barrier between abeona and the new race aurelia described below, which 

 ranges as far north as Camden Haven ; then with a maximum range of fifteen miles south of Port 

 Mai .piarie to twenty miles north of that town, we have the race Joanna ; north of this to Southport, 

 in southern Queensland, the race morrisi occurs. No specimens have yet been recorded between 

 Southport and about twenty-five miles north of Brisbane, from where the race rawnsleyi is known. 



TISIPHONE ABEONA ABEON I Donovan. 



Air. Turner has sent me many specimens from Kioloa, and I caught a good series at Ulladulla, a few 

 miles further north. These are all of the race abeona, so the division between albifascia and the typical 

 abeona occurs between Bermagui and Kioloa. On the north, a series caught by myself near Lake 

 Macquarie were also abeona. 



Two interesting aberrations of this race are worthy of record. The first was caught by Mr. Simmonds 

 at Stanwell Park, 1000 feet, 22nd November, 1914. It is a male, and has no orange postcellular bar on 

 the forewing above or beneath, and the central orange band is much broader than usual. On the 

 hindwing beneath the white discal band is absent, and the subterminal bands are much broader, but 

 not so well defined as normally. The other specimen is a female from Woodford on the Blue Mountains, 

 2000 feet, 31st October, 1914. In this specimen the subtornal ocellus of the forewing is over twice the 

 usual size. 



TISIPHONE ABEONA AURELIA subsp. nov. 

 Male. Above. Forewing rich dark brown : a broad central area from subcostal at half to tomus. 

 deep orange : a postcellular bar, deep orange : a subapical ocellus and a large subterminal 

 ocellus between vein 2 and vein 3, black centered blue and with whitish pupil. Hindwing rich 

 dark brown : an obscure subapical and a large subtornal ringed ocellus, black margined orange 

 red. 



Beneath. Forewing dark brown : markings as above but paler, especially postcellular bar : 

 ocelli as above. Hindwing dark brown : a discal band and a double subterminal line, white : 

 ocelli as above. 



Female. Above and beneath as in male : bands broader and paler. 



