BY G. A. WATERHOUSE, 701 



occurs in New South Wales, and in Queensland as far north as 

 Kuranda. 



I propose, therefore, to restrict Hewitson's name to the species 

 with a blue male and a female with whitish underside ; this occurs 

 at Kuranda, Cooktown, and Cape York, and its place in New 

 South Wales is probably taken by T. omjcha var. atrosuffut>a 

 Waterhouse. 



PsEUDALMENus CHLORiNDA Blanchard. 



Tliecla chlorinda, Voyage Pole Sud, i)l- 3, figs. 15-18, ante 1853 

 (Tasmania) : text, p. 401, 1853: Thecla myrsilus Doubleday, Gen. 

 Diurn. Lep., ii., pi. 75, fig, 3, 1852 (Van Diemen's Land). 



The figures and localities show clearly that these two names 

 represent tlie same species, but there has been some little doubt 

 which name held the better claim to priority. Tlie name chlorinda 

 first appears on the plates of the Voyage au Pole Sud, which were 

 published several years before the text.* It is again mentioned 

 on page 401, in the text of Vol. iv., whei-e Thecla myrsilus is given 

 as a synonym. The name myrsilus first appears without description 

 in Doubleday's List of the Butterflies of the British Museum. It 

 is adopted in the Genera, and figured but not described, and the 

 following species listed is Thecla chlorinda Blanchard. This shows 

 that the Pole Sud figure was earlier than that in the Genera, and, 

 at that time, no description of either species had been published. 

 The first description of chlorinda is given in Vol. iv., p. 401, of the 

 Pole Sud, 1853. 



It was under the name chlorinda, the species was first figured, 

 and several years later first described ; therefore, this name has pre- 

 cedence. Doubleday's List may be of earlier date, but this gave 

 nothing, except the locality, to indicate what species his myrsilus 

 represented. 



Ialmenus icilius Hewitson. 

 ill. Diurn. Lep., Lye, p. 'A, pi. 24, fig. 3, 1865 (Swan River) : 

 /. inuus Waterhouse {nee Hew.), Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1903, p. 259 (Victoria, South Australia). 



* Voyage Pole Sud, Vol.4, p. 2, 1853. 



