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XENICA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
distincta. 
achanta. 
klugi . 
hobartia. 
tasHianica. 
kershawi. 
ella. 
lallioniella. 
orichroa. 
paludosa. 
correae . 
fulva. 
lepera. 
distincta Mart., from Sumatra, is certainly different from elegans, but may be recognized at once by the two 
bands on the hindwing beneath touching one another above the discoid.al vein, whilst in Borneo specimens 
they are widely separated; the proximal angle corresponding to the two distal angles nearly touches the distal 
margin of the proximal band, distincta is moreover larger and perhaps a shade darker than typical elegans. 
From two E<$ and six $$ from Deli, North-East Sumatra. It is certainly striking that in the comparatively 
small district of Deli three different species of Erites fly together and one might hence assume that just here 
there is a particularly favourable combination of all the conditions of climate and flora necessary to Erites ; 
on the other hand it is not impossible that in other places also in the Inclo-Malayan region Erite-s is equally well 
represented, but that the inconspicuous insects, having nothing to catch the eye of the dealer, have escaped 
observation and capture. It is still quite likely that a form of elegans may be added from the Malay Peninsula 
(Martin). 
16. Genus: Xeiliea Westw. (= Argynnina, Geitoneura Btlr.). 
With this genus begins a trio which only occur in Australia and Tasmania and show in common the 
peculiar yellow-brown colouring which somewhat recalls our Pararge meg era (vol. 1, pi. 45 d), but must there 
be regarded as the result of adaptation to its surroundings. On the forewing two principal veins (the median 
and the submedian) are cystose, whilst the costal remains unaltered, by which Xenica is easily distinguished 
from the following genus Heteronympha , which lias the three principal veins inflated. Upper discocellular very 
small, middle one proximally curved and as long as the lower. Precostal of the hindwing short, knobbed. The 
cell obliquely closed. There are about 9 species known. 
X. achanta Dow. (93 c) is the commonest species of the genus and distributed, from South. Australia and 
New-South Wales to southern Queensland. Under surface of the forewing as above, but the grey underside of the 
hindwing beautifully marbled with delicate brown patches of the most various shapes, among which are placed 
the two ocelli, of almost equal size but widely separated. Before the distal margin in addition two thin brown 
longitudinal bands. $ relatively rare, larger and lighter yellow than the <$■ 
X. klugi Guer. (93 c), a smaller and much rarer species, bears above stronger black longitudinal and 
transverse bands and on the hindwing smaller eye-spots. Beneath in the dry-season form the apex of the fore¬ 
wing and the hindwing are grey with darker distal margin, inclining to brown, and an almost black, quadrate 
median spot. In the rainy-season form the median spot is lengthened into a band, traversing the entire wing, 
and the ocelli of the upper surface are distinctly reproduced. From southern Australia and Tasmania. 
X. hobartia Westw. (93 c) is always found together with klugi and the range of the two also coincides 
geographically. The under surface differs from that of the dry-season form of klugi in the more distinct black 
cell-spot of the forewing and the more distally placed transverse spot of the hindwing, which is of red-brown 
colour and finely marbled with grey. 
X. tasmanica Lyell is a species which is only known to me through Waterhouse, Catalogue Rhop. 
Austr., 1903, and occurs only on Tasmania. 
X. kershawi Misk. (93 c) bears on the underside of the hindwing between finely divided longitudinal 
bands similar stripes covered with silvery scales. The ocelli are extremely delicate, the apical eye-spot of the 
forewing nearly suppressed. Very local, only known from Victoria and New South Wales. As ella Olliff has 
been described a dry-season form of this interesting species, which Waterhouse registers as a variety. 
X. lathoniella Westw. (93 c) has more rounded wings than kershawi, above predominantly yellow- 
brown, as the black longitudinal bands are shorter than in kershawi. The markings of the hindwing more extended 
in width than in length. Silvery bands of the under surface fewer but more extended. The name lathoniella is 
very aptly chosen on account of the similarity of this Xenica to the European Argynnis lathonia L. ■ - orichroa 
Meyr. is a mountain form of lathoniella and paludosa Luc. an insular race from Tasmania. Distribution of 
lathoniella only in Victoria and New South Wales. 
X. correae Olliff is the $ (and fulva Oil. the E) of a rare species, which was first discovered in 1889 and 
is reported from Victoria and New South Wales. Unknown to me in nature. Has fine median band on the 
under surface and small anal ocelli. 
X. lep%a Hew., exclusively from Tasmania, is likewise only known to me from the fi- - 
gure and about agrees in size with kershawi and lathoniella. Upper surface darker brown with yellow¬ 
ish basal half, which is slightly scaled with brown. Forewing with a small black transverse spot 
at the discocellular. Hindwing with an angled yellow median band. Under surface: forewing with broad 
