BY W. H. MISKIN. 27 



have seen is in the collection of the Australian Museum at 

 Sydney ; in this example the dark marginal bands are even more 

 developed than in Hewitson's figure. , , 



O. Olane, Hew. 



Cat. Lye. B.M. p. 2, n. 10, t. 1, f. 10, 11 (1862). 



Hewitson's figure and description evidently represent the 9) 

 although the blue is shown as extending rather too much into the 

 wing, but the colour agrees well. 



The blue of the ^ is much darker and its area more extended, 

 and more sharply defined at its edges. This sex expands from 

 35 to 40 mm. 



I know the species as from Victoria only. 



O. Barnardi, n.sp. 



(J. Upperside. — Uniform dark purple ; outer borders of both 

 wings narrowly margined with dark brown ; abdominal margin of 

 secondaries light brown ; two small white dashes on extreme 

 costal edge near apex. Underside. — Primaries : Light reddish- 

 brown ; discal region darker, almost black in centre ; four short 

 transverse bands nearly equidistant within the cell, the two basal 

 ones — which are least — white, the other two bright silvery-blue, 

 the last not quite at end of cell ; beyond end of cell another light 

 blue band ; apex light grey, developing into two bands further 

 down wing, the first narrowing to a point reaching about middle, 

 the other submarginal, narrow, not quite reaching hinder angle. 

 Secondaries : Light grey, with light browu, broken, transverse 

 bands, marked at edges in black ; these comprise a basal one, a 

 subbasal, a central very irregular one, and an outer curved one, 

 a submai-ginal row of black points from anal angle to apex. 

 Thorax and abdomen, above black, beneath light grey. 



