DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN 



RHOPALOCERA. 



By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.E.S. 



LYCAENIDAE. 



POLYOMMATUS, Latr. 



I use this name in the sense in which it is employed by 

 Staudinger in his Catalogue, to denote the genus formerly known 

 as Chrysophanus, distinguished from Lycaena by the smooth eyes 

 (not hairy) ; there are several blue Australian species which have 

 been confounded with Lycaena. 



Pol. uranites, n. sp. 



(Jo. 26-28 mm. Head orange, margins more or less grey, 

 orbital rims white. Palpi white, towards apex dark fuscous. 

 Antennpe black, annulated with white. Thorax and abdomen 

 grey. Forewings with costa almost straight, hind margin in ^ 

 almost straight, little oblique, in $ I'ounded towards anal angle ; 

 in ^ brilliant light brassy-blue, in 2 purple-blue ; a narrow costal 

 and broad hindmarginal dark fuscous border, latter occupying 

 nearly half wing on costa, and gradually diminishing to anal 

 angle ; in ^ an irregular orange-reddish streak almost along hind- 

 margin : cilia white, barred with dark fuscous, basal third dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings with hindmargin somewhat waved, rounded 

 more strongly in $ ; colour and markings as in forewings, but 

 hindmarginal border only descending to middle of hindmargin ; a 



