I think that these are great looking little skippers. They are much smaller than the bulky Splendid Ochres that I also encountered.
Splendid Ochre (Trapezites symmomus) lived in the same habitat. Sometimes I saw the two species perched within a few cms of each other. They did not interact at all.
Australian Painted Lady (Vannesa kershawi)
I saw a number of other butterflies including Varied Sedge-Skippers (Hesperilla donnysa), Silver Sedge-Skipper (H. crypsargyra), Meadow Argus (Junonia villida), Macleay's Swallowtail (Graphium macleayanus), Common Brown (Heteronympha merope), one of the smaller browns (Heteronympha sp.), Marbled Xenica (Geitoneura klugii), Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus), Orchard Swallowtail (Papilio aegeus), Black Jezebel (Delias nigrina), Yellow-spotted Jezebel (D. nysa), Cabbage White (Pieris rapae), Varied Sword-grass Brown (Tisiphone abeona) and Yellow Admiral (Vanessa itea).
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