. Australian insects. Insects. 228 LEPIDOPTERA. with five yellow spots on the fore wing; the centres of the hind ones and the hind margins of the same yellow colour, and with the markings on the under surface more numerous. H. ornata is a smaller species, of a general dark brown; the fore wings carry a number of spots and four angular golden yellow blotches; the hind pair are reddish orange mottled on the under surface of the body, the tips of the fore and the whole of the hind wings with pale yellow. It has an extended range from Victoria up to Cooktown Trapezites iacchus, one of our com
. Australian insects. Insects. 228 LEPIDOPTERA. with five yellow spots on the fore wing; the centres of the hind ones and the hind margins of the same yellow colour, and with the markings on the under surface more numerous. H. ornata is a smaller species, of a general dark brown; the fore wings carry a number of spots and four angular golden yellow blotches; the hind pair are reddish orange mottled on the under surface of the body, the tips of the fore and the whole of the hind wings with pale yellow. It has an extended range from Victoria up to Cooktown Trapezites iacchus, one of our commonest species, described by Fabricius in 1775, measures 1% inches in length, and is of a uniform, dull brown colour shaded with yellow; the fore wings are blotched with small irregular marks; those on the hind pair are parallel and confluent. The under surface is dull yellow; the fore wings are mottled and the hind ones marked with four to five small purple spots ringed with black. It has a wide range from Tasmania over Fig. FigB. 109 and 110.—Earlier stages of the Palm Skipper. I'amphilu augimies (Fielder). 109. Larva. 110. Pupa. Australia. T. symmomiis is a darker, larger species very similar in the markings, only the yellow spots are more de- fined. It does not range further north than Brisbane. Apaustus lascivia is one of the small dull brown skippers washed with yellow, with pale slender transvere bars cross- ing the centre of the wings; the body is marked with white; the under surface is dull yellow, with the tips of the fore wings darkest. The larvae of Pamphila augiades, another common species in the Sydney gardens, and found as far north as Bowen, Queensland, feeds upon the foliage of young palms; that of Erynnis sperthias is found on the same plant. Badamia exclamotionis is a light brown species with the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of th
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