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region, and the Australian form has been taken at Card well 

 (Miskin) and Cairns {J'^. E. Turner). 



HOLOCHILA CYPROTUS, OUiff. 



Chrysophanus cyprotus^ OIL, Proc. Linn. 8oc. N.8.W. x. 716, 

 1885; Holochila cyprotus, Misk., Syn. Cat. Rhop. Aust. p. 64, 

 1891; H. purpurea^ Grose Smith k Kirby, Rhop. Exot. pi. x., 

 figs. 11 ik 12 {$), Pt. 39, p. 7, 1896. 



A pair of this species determined by the late Mr. Oil iff is in 

 ni}^ collection; and on looking through the ' Rhopalocera Exotica ' 

 I found an excellent figure of the male under the name of H. 

 purpurea from Sydney and Moreton Bay. The localities agree, 

 and also the description and figure; and there is no doubt in my 

 mind that H. purpurea is the same insect. The confusion was 

 caused no doubt by H. cyprotus being originall}' placed in the 

 genus Chrysophanus, to which it certainly does not belong. This 

 species is very local; and I have found only one brood, and that 

 appeared in Sydney very early in the season, and was on the wing- 

 only a short time The females are much rarer and of slower 

 flight than the males. In Brisbane Mr. R. Illidge has taken 

 larvae feeeding on Jacksonia sp., but as I know of no Jacksonia 

 nearer to Sydney than Blacktown, there must be some other 

 food-plant. 



Loc. — Sydney, Como, and Katoomba, N".S.W.; Brisbane and 

 Rockhampton, Q. 



Holochila helenita, Semper. 



Journ. Mus. Godeff. xiv., p. 162, 1879; Holochila androdus, 

 Misk., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1890, v. (2), p. 41; If. suhargentea, 

 Grose Smith &l Kirby, Rhop. Exot. Hoi i., Pt. 38, fios. 9 c<c 10 

 {S\ 1896. 



This species for many years has passed under Miskin's name of 

 androdus. By all the authors mentioned above, this species is 

 compared with the allied form, H. absimilis, Felder. Semper says 

 the male is greenish and' shining, w^ith a dark arrows-shaped 

 shadow standing out along the veins in the centre of the fore wings: 



