256 REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF TERIAS WITH 



REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF THE 

 LEPIDOPTEROUS GENUS TERI.iS, WITH DES- 

 CRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES ; 



By W. H. MISKLN, F.E.S. 



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The excessive variability of individuals will in some degree 

 account for the numerous, so called, species of this very difficult 

 genus, and it is on'y by means of comparison of a long series of 

 examples collected and carefully observed over a considerable 

 period that anything approaching certainty can be arrived at in 

 determining the title to specific rank. It is much to be lamented 

 that a too eager desire to figure as the author of new species 

 prompts many Entomologists to rashly proclaim every slightly 

 varying form that com >s under their notice, in many instances- 

 represented by a single specimen, a new species, anl so swell the 

 already overburdened list of synomyms. driving the student to 

 the limit of despair in his futile endeavours to reconcile his 

 specimens witl: the various descriptions. 



It is with the view of trying to simplify the subject, so far 

 as local forms are concerned, and to show at a glance a reliable 

 list of the species and their claim to specific rank, with a full 

 synomymy that the following notes are written. 



T. Dhona, HorsfiehJ, f nee Wallengren.) 



Cat. Lep. E. I. C, p. 137, n. 64, T. 1, f 13 (1829). 



Bois.—Sp. Gen: 1 p, 675, n. 37 (1836). 



Moore.— hoy : Ceylon p. 120, T. 46, f. 3, 3 a (1880-1). 



Butler.— An. Mag. N.H. (5). Vol. 17, p. 213 (1886). 



T. Australia, Wall —Trans : Ent. Soc Ser. III. Vol. IV. 



p. 321, n. 1! (1867). * 



T. Lerna, Feh/.—Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien. Math. Nat. CI. XL. 

 p. 448, n. 'i (1^60). 



Feld.— UeAse. Nov. Lep. II, p. 212, n. 227 (1865). 



Zoiaitle, Fei</.— UeiM. Nov. Lep. II, p. 212, n. 227 (1865). 



