SATYRINAE 
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ARGYNNINA 
39b. A. hobartia cyrila nov . 130, 832, 833. 
. Above. Forewing black: a spot in cell at onetbird and another at twotliirds, a series of large 
irregular discal spots, and a series of small sometimes obscure suba])ical spots, orange-yellow: a row 
of three obscui*e ocelli in areas 3, 4 and 5, black: a large raised patch of sexscales in area la and 2, 
black. Hindwing black: a large spot in cell coalescing with a discal spot near apex, a discal spot 
near tornus, and two small sublerminal spots in areas 2 and 3, golden brown: a row of three ocelli in 
areas 2, 3 and 4, black, that in area 2 prominent in the discal spot. 
Beneath. Forewing as above: spots paler with an extra one in base of area la: apex sutfused red- 
brown. liindwing red-brown, dusted with short whitish hairs, and wilii pale spots as above but much 
obscured; a series of minute subterminal ocelli, black. 
Q. Above as in male: cell spot at onetbird reaching into area la; sexscales absent. 
Beneath as in male. 
TjOC. Nar rabeen 10. Tllawarra 11. Blue Mts. 10 11. ^loriiya 10. Mt. Arnold 11. Healesville 11. 
Wandin 10 11. ISracedon 10 11. 36 21 9 . 
Very similar to hobartia but larger and brighter, and at once separated by the raised ]7atch of 
sexscales on forewing in the male. 
40. Argynnina tasmanica Lyell. Fig. (127,'i(l28^ 
Victorian Naturalist 1900, p. 110, 
d^. Above. Forewing black: a spot in cell at onetbird, another at twotliirds, and a series of small 
irregular discal spots, pale cream: a series of small subapical spots, pale cream suffused red-brown: 
a row of three obscure ocelli in areas 3, 4 and 5, black. Hindwing black; a spot in cell, a series of 
discal sjmts, and two small subtenninal spots in areas 2 and 3, pale cream; discal spots outwai'dly 
suffused reddish brown: a complete series of subtei’ininal ocelli, black: basal hairs dense, long and 
greenish. 
Beneath. Forewing as above, sj^ots larger: apex red-broAvn. Hindwing red-broAvn Avith a broad 
curved central band, dark red-broAvn: spots as above but usually narroAver and sometimes obscured. 
9. Above and Beneath as in male: spots slightly larger. 
Loc. Strahan 10 11. Zeehan 10 11. 23^ 70 9. 
AVe ha\’e one aberrant female in Avhieh the cell spot of hindwing coalesces Avitli the discal spot near 
apex, in the same Avay as in hobartia and cyrila. 
Genus OREIXENICA nor. 
Antennae about half the length of costa, Avith clubs short, broad and abrupt. Eyes smooth. Fore- 
Aving Avitli A’ein 12, median A'ein and A’ein la, SAVollen at base: A^ein 10 from subcostal before end of 
Fig. E. Wing venation of 
Oreixenica lathoniella 
(enlarged). 
cell: A’ein 5 longer than A’ein 6: cell about lialf the length of Aving. HindAving Avith vein 3 and A’ein 4 
arising Avell apart. (Fig. L.) 
Type. Oreixenica lathoniella AYestAvood. 
A genus of small alpine butterflies agi’eeing Avith Hypocysta in haA’ing the discocellulars of foreAving 
sharply bent iuAvards, making vein 5 much longer than vein 6. The clubs of the antennae are much more 
