NEW RACES OF AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES 97 



G. heat hi aerata Mont, from Monte Bello Is. and Geraldton, W.A. ; 

 G. heat Iti alpina Whs. from Mt. Kosciusko and the high country in 

 the Federal Capital Territory, and 0. heat hi doddi n. subsp. from 

 the Barrington Tops. C. heathi heathi Cox is found in south 

 Queensland, near Sydney, sparingly in Victoria, and near Adel- 

 aide. It is a very local butterfly in Victoria, being found in 

 the Moe-Trafalgar area, Gippsland, at Mt. Macedon, and at Day- 

 trap in the Mallee. In South Australia it appeared to he confined 

 to the Adelaide region until recently, when a female specimen of 

 C. heathi from llolowiliena Station in the Flinders Ranges near 

 Cradock, and 250 miles north of Adelaide was shown to the author 

 by M. W. Mules, who captured this specimen in the ranges on 

 December 26, 1942. The country there is normally very dry, and the 

 vegetation scanty. 



Examination of this specimen shows it to approximate to West- 

 ern Australian examples, which are paler than those from the east. 

 In this specimen, the forowings are dusky brown with the central 

 purple areas extending almost to the fortius, this is so in the hind- 

 wings also. The underside is greyish white and not inclined to be 

 silky. The size is slightly larger than typical heathi. It will be 

 interesting to see further specimens of this butterfly from this 

 locality. It is much more plentiful in south Western Australia 

 and ranges up as far as Geraldton. 



For distribution of C. hint hi and its races see Pig. 5. 



Types, male and female, in the collection of the author. 



Acknowledgments 



For generous assistance in tin' preparation of this paper, the author thanks 

 Mrs. 8. Whincup of the National Museum for assistance with the geology of 

 the Mt. Hope area; Mr. h. Chapman, also of the Mnsenm, for assistance 

 with maps; Messrs. P. B. Wilson and M. W. Mules, of Melbourne, for valu- 

 able data; Mr. R. E. Trehilcock, of Kerang, for assistance in gathering 

 material, and Mr. F. .1. Dodd, of DorrigO, New South Wales, and Mr. T. 

 Mcehan, of Tubrahucca. New South Wales, for help in collecting specimens 

 and transport respectively. 



Subfamily Theclinae 



Notes on the Butterfly, Pseudalmemis chlorinda barringtonensis 

 Whs., with a description of the female, larva and pupa. 



The genus Pseudalmenus Blanchard is represented by one 

 species only, namely chlorinda chlorinda, which was described in 

 1852 from Specimens taken in Tasmania. Since that, time, geo- 

 graphical races have been described from Victoria (zephyrus), and 

 the Blue Mountains, New South Wales (clitoris) by Waterhouse 

 andLyell (2) . On October 30, 1927, a male specimen of Pseudalme- 



