336 AUSTRALIAN RHOPALOCERA : LYC.EyiD.E, 



hewitsoiii, but has a more acute apex and a straighter outer 

 margin. 



Hewitson gives an excellent figure of this sex only. Though 

 Miskin correctly determined a female specimen from Mackay for 

 Mr. R. E. Turner, yet he says that the Australian Museum con- 

 tained a female. But the specimens of 0. orrjutes have only been 

 there for about two years; and I have no doubt he mistook a 

 male of 0. amaryllis for the female of 0. oroetes, as he was doubt- 

 ful of his determination. Mr. F. D. Dodd, of Townsville, has 

 bred some fine examples of this species, from which m}^ descriptions 

 are mainly taken; they, however, do not show the blue in the 

 cell on the underside as shown in Hewitson's figure, but this is 

 the only variation. The recognition marks of this species are the 

 acute apex and straight outer margin to the forewing ; and 

 the straight discal dark band on the underside of the forewing. 

 A further recognition mark of the male is the purplish-blue tint 

 on the upperside; and of the female the absence of scarlet in the 

 cell of the underside of the forewing. 



Loc. — Moreton Bay (Hewitson), Mackay (li. E. Turner), 

 Townsville (Dodd). 



This species appears to be confined to Queensland. 



Ogyris AMARYLLIS, Hewitson. 

 Cat. Lye. Brit. Mus. p. 3, t. 1, figs. 5-6 (9), 1862. 

 (Plate xiv., figs. 3-4.) 



(J. Upperside dark silvery morpho-blue. Forewing with 

 a linear black costal margin and a broad black outer margin, and 

 two white costal splashes near apex. Hindwing with a black 

 outer margin, narrowest at the terminations of the veins. 



U n d e r s i d e. Forewing with outer marginal \ gre}^ rest of 

 the wing almost black; cell crossed by five white transverse bars 

 sprinkled with blue, two basal, very small, two central and one 

 near end of cell, beyond end of cell a short white transverse bar; 

 the discal band is black and only well defined towards the costa, 

 but towards the middle merges into the inner marginal half of 



