
TINDALE—TISIPHONE FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA 615 
the costal margin; hindwings with a large eyespot near hinder angle, this is 
ringed with dull orange brown and black; traces of an eyespot near apex; wings 
below with markings arranged as above; forewings with midwing band orange in 
lower half, cream-toned in cell; band near apex cream-coloured, traces of two 
white lines parallel to outer margin; hind wing black with two large eyespots, 
each ringed with orange brown, that near apex with traces of a small second one 
below it; a broad cream-coloured band across midwing and two narrower ones 
near outer margin. Expanse 66 mm. 
Female. Generally larger, wings more ample, markings similar but paler ; 
midwing band of forewing tends to a cream-tone in cell; the hind wing above bears 
traces of a dusky cream band across the wing in the position of the broad white 
fascia beneath. Expanse 75 mm. 
Loc. South Australia: Lake Edward (Holotype a male, and allotype female 
numbered I 18,951 in South Australian Museum), caught 3rd—4th January, 1947, 
by N. B. and A. J. Tindale. Victoria: Dartmoor, 10th January, 1947, N. B. 
Tindale. Mackenzie Creek, Grampians, 26th December, 1931, A. V. Southcott. 
4 Males, 3 females. 
The type and allotype of 7’. a. antoni are deposited in the South Australian 
Museum, together with three paratypes; one paratype each has been passed to the 
Australian Museum, Sydney, and the National Museum, Melbourne. 
At Lake Edward the butterflies were rather rare and fast flying, frequenting 
the clumps of giant Gahnia grass which grow on the somewhat treacherous 
surface of peat bog fringing the lake on its southern side and western shores. 
Two days assiduous collecting yielded only four specimens, although many times 
that number were seen. The season of emergence was evidently well advanced 
and most examples seen were ragged or had suffered from symmetrical wing 
injuries, apparently as a result of the attacks of birds. 
At Dartmoor, on 10th January, 1947, the butterflies were found, flying 
about clumps of giant Gahnia growing among teatree (Melaleuca) about the 
sources of several springs which originate in the base of the Ostrea bed (of prob- 
able Pleistocene age), and flow down by small lateral valleys to the main stream 
of the Glenelg River. The season for the species was well advanced and most 
of the examples were ragged. A half-day’s collecting yielded only two specimens. 
This race, in keeping with its greater apparent isolation, seems to differ a 
little more from 7’. a. abeona and T. a. albifascia than those two races differ from 
each other. This is, perhaps, to be expected, since the ranges of the latter tend 
now to a slight overlap in the vicinity of Narooma. Recent gene exchange may 
have occurred between the two forms along the meeting ground, as has clearly 
happened in the case of the race 7’. a. joanna. 
