LEPI DOPTERA. 
By OSWALD LOWER, F.E.S. 
Professor Baldwin Spencer has handed me for identification a small consign¬ 
ment of Lepidoptera collected by himself during the progress of the Horn Scientific 
Expedition. The specimens totalled about seventy, the majority of which, not¬ 
withstanding the length and duration of the journey, are determinable. I might 
here mention that the Professor captured the specimens during his leisure moments, 
his other duties precluding him from giving more time to this branch, so that the 
specimens submitted must not be considered as any more than a mere indication of 
the fauna of the country traversed. The whole of the species are of the Southern 
type, most of the .species being met with in and around the metropolis. No doubt, 
had more time been given to systematic collecting, we should have discovered some 
very interesting and novel species. A very small consignment sent me by Mr. 
A. Zeitz, of the Adelaide Museum, during his sojourn at Lake Mulligan, contained 
several new species. Besides the one new species described, the consignment has 
established the fact that Donovan’s Bombyx airvdia, described and figured in Ins. 
New. Holl. (1805), is identical with Doubleday’s Spilosoma (Chelonia) fuscinula 
described in Eyre’s Discoveries I., 438, Plate V., 4 (1845). Donovan’s being the 
older name, takes precedence over Doubleday’s. This species, of which one specimen 
was obtained, is somewhat smaller than ordinary typical specimens, but is in 
all other respects sub.stantially the same. Appended are names of species and 
localities ;— 
RHOPALOCERA. 
PlERIDiE. 
Tepias, Swain. 
Terias S77iilax, Don. 
Dwarfed speciiiiens. 
Locality. —Illamurta, James Range. 
NvMPHALIDiE. 
Danais, Latr. 
Da7iais petilia, Stoll. 
Locality. —Met with throughout the whole Expedition. 
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