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EUPHYIA. By L. B. Prout. 
taining the coil-clot. Underside whitish, with blackish cell-dots and interrupted subterminal band, forewing also 
with a strongly angled postmedian band. 
bichromata. E. bichromata Guen. I have not been able to match this type, which I studied carefully some years ago, 
but Dr. Turner wrote me that he had a specimen from Tasmania which agreed fairly well and that he was 
satisfied that this name should supplant longuescens, representing the Tasmanian race; in any case nearly 
related. It differs somewhat in shape, the apex of the forewing being slightly more falcate, the termen faintly 
sinuate between the 5th subcostal and 1st radial, the hindwing with an appreciably sharper tooth at the 3rd 
radial than elsewhere. The upperside is very similar to that of languescens type, the markings more blurred 
than in many examples. The underside has the cell-dots enlarged, that of the hindwing larger than in almost 
any languescens which I have seen; apical border of fore wing broad to behind the 2nd radial, then suddenly 
narrowed, but continuing (outside the subterminal) to the hindmargin; border of hindwing broadened, reaching 
the termen but not reaching the costa (indeed fading away about the 2nd radial), the part on the proximal side 
of the subterminal macular and not “black' 5 (as Guenee gives) but brown. Tasmania, the type $ in the Paris 
languescens. Museum. languescens JRosenstock (28 e), founded on a $ from “South Australia”, is known also from New 
South Wales. Victoria and Tasmania (see above). Antennal ciliation of the short. Forewing above variable 
in markings, often (chiefly in the dU?) with a better expressed median band than in the type $. Hindwing 
with its anterior part usually clear orange-yellow, the dark markings only developing towards the abdominal 
region; at times there is also a shadowy subterminal basal. Underside sharply marked, with dark subterminal 
concolor. shades on the hindwing (reaching costa) and on the anterior half of the forewing. — ab. concolor nov. is a re¬ 
markable $, recorded by Turner, in which the hindwing has no yellow' tinge, but is almost concolorous with 
the forewing. Type in the Lyell collection, probably from Gisborne. 
doliopis. E. doliopis Meyr. (28 e). Related to languescens , but with the $ ciliation twice as long (about 1). Fore¬ 
wing with termen rather more oblicpie, median band with more definite distal projection; more reddish-mixed 
than in aglaodes. Hindwing generally duller or more clouded than in languescens. Underside less sharply marked, 
lacking the strong dark subterminal shades. South Australian. 
opipara. E. opipara Turn. (= oriotes Turn.. M. S.) (28 e). A rather large and ample-winged species, in the shape 
of the forewing and of its broad median band slightly reminiscent of the large New Zealand Dasyuris. The 
yellow ground of the hindwing not very bright, the subterminal maculation of the underside reproduced more 
weakly above. Discovered on Mount Hotham, Victoria; subsequently found on Mount Kosciusko. 
deltoidatu. E. deltoidata Walk. (28 e). Excessively variable in coloration and in the breadth, and even the shape, 
of the median band of the forewing; yet its size and wing-form and the absence of any similar species in New 
Zealand render its recognition easy. The conspicuously white central dot of the subterminal is a relatively 
constant feature, but even this is occasionally suppressed. Hindwing always more or less ochreous and wdth 
very weak markings; sometimes more, sometimes less, suffused with greyish or whitish. Widely distributed 
and common; recorded also from Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands. Walker's type, from Auckland, 
plagifurcata . has a half-band, rather nearly resembling that of the first-named aberration, but more quadrate. — ab. plagi- 
furcata Walk. (= hawthornei Th.-Mieg ) has the half-band which represents almost the only darkening of the 
median area curiously misshapen, a very long and acute indentation being developed in its distal side in front 
of the 2nd radial. Rare, but recurrent; occasional intermediates occur. Walker’s dingy type is from Auckland, 
perversata. Thierry-Mieg’s brighter hawthornei from Springfield. — ab. perversata Feld, has the median band unequally 
inclarata. bisected, the ground-colour crossing it about the fold. - ab. inclarata Walk, is a common form, with the median 
perductata. band complete, its distal edge twice sinuate inward. ab. perductata Walk. (= conversata Walk., inopiata 
Feld.) (28 e) has the median band broader than in normal its edges blacker than the rest of the band, the 
bisignata. distal edge almost straight. —- ab. bisignata Walk, is a $ somewhat similar to 'perductata (of which both the 
cited types are $$) but with the median band darker, its edges not noticeably differentiated from its interior. 
descriptata. — (J-ab. descriptata Walk, has the band shaped about as in perductata but narrowed. There is, naturally, no 
sharp line of demarcation and the separate name was probably even less needed than most of the others. - 
pastinaria. ab. pastinaria Guen. in not quite intelligibly differentiated, but as the median band is entire, with its anterior 
part enclosing round the cell-dot an ashy-grey patch which is prolonged and constricted on the costa I gather 
congressata. that it is a combination of the plagifurcata with the more normal group. Described from the — ab. congressata 
Walk, is a small, smoky, comparatively unicolorous ^ and has the hindwing also somewhat dull and dark- 
aggregata. suffused, suggesting incipient melanism. — ab. aggregata Walk, is the antithesis of perductata and descriptata 
in that the median band lias developed a strong bilobed projection between the 3rd radial and the 2nd median. 
congregata. The type and the other most pronounced examples which I have seen are $9- — ab- congregata Walk. {= mono- 
liata Feld.) (28 f). These types are also $$, characterized by the warm ground-colour of the forewing and 
weakened markings of the distal area, so that the aberration is comparable (especially when the postmedian 
