BY W. H. MISKIN. 37 



L. GRACILIS, n.sp. 



(J. Upperside. — Uniform light brown. Primaries with a 

 slight violet reflection in hinder area. Secondaries with the anal 

 area shot with purplish-blue in some specimens. 



Underside. — Dull silvery-grey without markings except for a 

 very faint outer submargiual line in primaries ; in secondaries a 

 large black spot at border between 2nd and 3rd median branches, 

 another almost obsolete in space next above, other barely 

 discernible ones continued to apical angle. 



5. Upperside. — Dull purple, with indistinct outer mai'ginal 

 bands of brown. In other respects as in ^. Thorax above black, 

 abdomen brown ; beneath both silvery -grey. 



Exp. $ 20 mm. ; 9 22 mm. 



Ilab. — Brisbane to Cooktown. Coll. Miskin. 



This species is most nearly allied to j^ygmoia (Snell), than 

 which it is somewhat larger. 



Dr. Lucas has given a description of this species, appearing in 

 the Proceedings Royal Soc. of Queensland, p. 159 (1889), under 

 the name of exilis, but as this name is already preoccupied by an 

 American species of the genus (Bois. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 195, 

 1852) it must of course be discarded. I have added description, 

 as the one before referred to is not quite intelligible, and the 

 figures accompanying are worse than useless. 



L. suLPiTius, n.sp. 



Upperside. — Dull dark brown. 



Underside. — Light brown, with double parallel lines of wide 

 silvery-white, forming transverse bands. Primaries : a basal one 

 across wing ; a short one at end of cell ; a somewhat curved 

 broken one traversing wing between end of cell and outer border, 

 a submarginal white curved line ; a marginal line of brown. 



