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THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST December, 1952 
Top row : — Ogyris b. delphis Tindale. 
Whyalla, South Australia, 4 November, 
1951; left male, right female; upper- 
side of type pair. 
Second row : — Ogyris b. delphis under- 
sides. 
Third row :— Ogyris b. delphis Tindale, 
Brewarrina, New South Wales, Septem- 
ber 1 to October 7, 1925; left male, 
right female; undersides. 
Fourth row : — Ogyris b. barnardi Miskin, 
Clermont, Queensland; left, male, Sep- 
tember 10, 1922, and right, female, Sep- 
tember 24, 1922; undersides. 
because of its dark purple colour; 
I was at first inclined to consider 
it a species separate from O. bar- 
nardi. However it is allopatric; it 
has many features in common with 
typical barnardi ; and specimens 
from Brewarrina, an intermediate 
locality, which I identify with the 
new race, show a slight trend to 
wards O. barnardi in such charac- 
ters as size, and wing colour. 
In O. b. delphis the black mar- 
gins of the wings in the male are 
wider, and in the female slightly 
narrower than in O. b. barnadi ; 
because of the darker purple colour 
of the rest of the wings the black 
is less conspicuous. The forewings 
beneath have the series of short 
white-margined black bars extend- 
ing from costa at three-fourths to- 
wards tornus crenellated or stag- 
