BY G. A. WATERHOUSE, 335 



Ogyris orcetes, Hewitson. 

 Cat. Lye. Brit. Mus. p. 3, t. 1, figs. 12-13 (9), 1862. 

 (Plate xiv., figs. 1-2.) 



J". Upperside silvery-blue with a faint black edging; the 

 blue has a slight purplish tint which distinguishes it from the 

 males of the two following species. The apex also is more acute 

 and the outer margin straighter. 



Underside grey. Forewing with cell crossed by five white 

 transverse bars; the first small basal, between the second and 

 third darker grey, between the fourth and fifth almost black and 

 a dark bar external to cell. The dark discal band straight, from 

 costa to first median nervule; a dark submarginal band. Hind- 

 wing with several irregular brown spots surrounded with darker 

 brown and dark brown submarginal sufiusions. 



The male may be distinguished from the males of the two 

 following species by the totally different shade of blue, the very 

 small brown margins, the more acute apex to the forewing; and 

 on the underside the discal band is straight, nor can I find any 

 trace of blue in the cell as is found in the males of both the other 

 species. The specimen referred to this species by Miskin"^ is in 

 reality the male of 0. heivitsoni. 



2' Upperside. Foreiving silvery-blue, costal margin brown, 

 widening beyond the cell, apex and outer margin broadly brown, 

 a dark bar at end of cell and costa near apex marked with two 

 white splashes; the apex is acute and outer margin nearly straight 

 as in male. Hindiving silvery-blue, with brown outer margin, 

 narrowest at the terminations of the veins, fringes white. 



U n d e r s i d e as in male, but the white bars of the cell are 

 often bordered with silvery-blue. This may be distinguished from 

 the females of the two following species by the absence of scarlet 

 in the cell and the straight discal band of the underside. The 

 upperside is almost identical with that of the female of 0. 



'' Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1890, v. (2), 26. 



