NEW RACES OF AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES 93 



For distribution of T. sciron and its race see Fig. 3. 

 Types, male and female, in the collection in the National 

 Museum of Victoria. 



Family LYCAENIDAE 



Subfamily Ogyrinae 



Ogyris amaryllis Jwpensis n. subsp. 



Male. Above : 



Forewing shining metallic blue with very narrow black outer margins. Cilia 

 grey. 



Hindwing shining metallic blue with very narrow black outer margins, 

 broader at tornus. Cilia grey. 



Beneath: 



Forewing smoky black, broadly grey at apex narrowing to tornus, crossed 

 with darker markings. Cell crossed by greyish white bars edged with metallic 

 blue. 



Hindwing dark blackish suffused grey and lightly tinged brown, crossed by 

 interrupted darker markings, brown-black. 



Female. Above: 



Forewing shining metallic blue, in some examples slightly silvery blue, 

 margins narrow, black, interrupted with grey. In some specimens a narrow 

 black bar at end of cell, in many absent altogether. 



Hindwing shining metallic blue, sometimes slightly silvery, margins narrow 

 and black, interrupted with grey, broadest at apex and tornus. Cilia grey. 



Beneath : 



Forewing similar to the male. Cell dark orange red between second and 

 third greyish white bars. 



Hindwing brown-black faintly overlaid with grey, crossed by interrupted 

 darker brown-black markings, those on the central area black. 



In typical amaryllis there is almost always an orange red spot 

 between the base of the forewing and the first cross bar. The 

 chief characteristics of this race are its darker and more smoky 

 appearance beneath, and the greater expanse of metallic blue on 

 the uppersides of the wings in the female. It was first taken by 

 F. E. Wilson and the author at Mt. Hope, northern Victoria, in 

 the larval and pupal stages. These were found sheltering beneath 

 the bark of black wattle trees on which the foodplant, a greyish 

 leaved mistletoe, (Phryfjilanthus eucalyptif alius) was growing. 

 There were no ants in attendance. 



The other Victorian race, 0. amaryllis meridianalis Beth. 

 Baker, occurs over much of western and north western Victoria, 

 where 'the larvae feed on Loranthus quandang, which grows on 

 Casuarina trees. I have many times taken larvae and pupae of 

 this race, and have found them attended by no fewer than three 

 species of ants. 0. amaryllis hopensis appears on the wing during 



