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75. Atella phalanta Drury. 
The Australian race is paler and smaller than specimens from India and Ceyloip and the spots, 
especially those of tlie hindwing, are smaller. 
75a. A. phalanta araca iiov. Fig. 50. 
cf. Above. Foi'eAving bright orange: a series of narrow streaks across cell, brown-black: a costal bar 
at threefifths and another at twothirds, brown-black: a series of waved terminal lines, brown-black: 
a row of four spots from lower apex of cell to before dorsum at twoHfths, brown-black: a series of 
small discal sjiots, brown-black. Hindwing bright oiumge: a series of discal spots, and a series of 
waved terminal lines, brown-black. 
Bexeatii. Forewing oi’ange-brown: markings as above but much narrower and fainter, and brown 
instead of brown-black: a larger discal spot in area la, black. Hindwing pale orange-brown: an ill- 
defined discal band, lilac-brown basally edged with a series of ill-defined spots, whitish, and with a 
central series of irregular ill-defined sjiots, brown-black edged red-brown: a series of waved terminal 
lines, broAvn. 
9. Above and Bexeath as in male: terminal lines broader. 
TiOC. Daly R. 4. Darwin. 49 . 
Genus ARG-YNNIS Fabricius. 
Illigor^s Magazine, vi, 1807, ]>. 283. 
Antennae about half the length of costa, with clubs sliort, abrupt and broad. Eyes smooth. Fore- 
Aving Avith vein 10 from subcostal just before end of cell: median vein Avith a basal spur: cell not quite 
half the length of Aving and closed, AAutli loAA'er and upper edges of about equal length. HindAAung Avith 
coll about half the length of Aving and closed: A'ein 3 and A'ein 4 trom almost the same point: termen 
rounded. 
Type. -*I rgj/nnis aglaia Linne, from Europe. 
A section of this genus has A’ein 10 from A’ein 7 instead of from subcostal, but this is not represented 
in Australia. 
76. Argynnis hyperbius Johannseu. (India). 
The distribution of this species is remarkable. It is found in India, ('eylon, China, Japan, Sumatra 
and Java, but is not recorded south of the latter point till it appears again halfway doAvn the eastern 
coast of Australia. 
76a. A. hyperbius inconstans Butler. Fig.(^ 
Cistulii Eutomologica, i. p. UU. 1873. 
cT’. Above. Forewing j^ale orange: a series of broad streaks across cell, and a double series of laige 
irregular discal spots, black: a series of regular subterminal spots, and a double terminal line AAith a 
spof on each vein, black. Hindwing pale orange: Iavo ill-detined spots in cell, black: discal, siibterminal 
and terminal spots and lines as on foreAving. 
Bexeath. ForeAA'iiig pale orange tinged pinkish: apex broadly' pale yelloAA’: spots and lines as 
above, but in anical area yelloAA’-brown ^instead of black: a]ncal spots in areas 5 and 6 faintly edged 
silverv white. Hindwing pale velloAv: a series of interrupted basal and discal lines, black edged 
silverV Avhite: a series of discal spots, yelloAV-brown centred silvery Avhite and basally edged AA’itli a 
series of broad irregular spots, silvery Avhite: siibterminal sjmts as above but yelloAv-broAvn and out¬ 
wardly edged silverv Avhite: terminal lines and spots as above but much nariwer. 
9. Above as in male: paler: apex of forewing broadly black: terminal lines much broader and spots 
larger. 
Bexeath as in male. , 
Loc. Gympie. Brisbane. Richmond R. 1 2 .3.q-io.al0o^ 5 9. Qg 
The sole Australian representative of a large and Avidespread Palaearctic genus. It is met Avith 
in northern N. S. Wales and southern Queensland: Ave have ourselves taken it once only, at sealevei 
close to the mouth of the Richmond R. 
