DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW SPECIES I) V W. H. MISKIX, F.E.S. 250 



TKis is the type of a group of small butterflies very 

 difficult to distinguish, owing to the extreme variability in the 

 markings, both in the marginal bands of upperside, and transverse 

 broken bands of secondaries in underside. It is not without 

 some misgivings that I have separated them into three species, 

 one of which 1 am compelled to consider as hitherto undescribed 

 for the reasons given in the description hereafter following. 

 Although differing considerably in the greater or less development 

 of the outer marginal bands of primaries, i f is the underside of 

 secondaries that, upon examining a long series of specimens, 

 present the infinite gradations of variability that make them 

 so perplexingly difficult to separate ; from a clear yellow, to a 

 complete y clouded grey ground colour, and from a few scattered 

 almost indistinct brown specks to a complete series of developed 

 brown broken bands with all the intermediate gradations, are 

 met with in a sufficiently numerous set of examples. 



The species is common and ranges through Queensland, N.S. 

 Wales, Victoria and S Australia. 



Butler (An. Mag. N*. H.,) seems to doubt the correc'ness of 

 Donovan's habitat for his type, why, does n t appear. 



T. Parvcla, Fferr Schaf. 

 Stett fait. Zeit, p. 7«S n 5 1 (1860V 



This species is distinguishable by the almost entire absence 

 of markings on underside of secondaries, there being but a few 

 dark specks towards the base. 



It is from Rockhampton, and appears a local species. 

 T. Varius, n. sp. 



upperside.— Sulphur yellow, richer towards base, which is briefly 

 suffused with black. Frin:aries.—Qo^ very nanowly, apical aiea broadly 

 to the first median branch from whence it is abruptly n in owed to the lower 

 median, shiuinir b o vn : an almost invisible risco-cellular speck. 

 Secondares— With very minute brown specks fct termination of nsrvules, 

 some specimens almost obsolete. 



