340 AUSTEALIAN RHOPALOCERA : LYC.KNID.E, 



margin they are defined with black. Hindwing pale silvery-blue, 

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

 with well defined grey cilia; where the nervules meet the linear 

 margin they are defined with black; anal angle of wing produced 

 into a blunt tail. Abdominal fold well developed. The wing is 

 longer than broad, being produced towards anal angle, and the 

 extremities of the median nervules are marked by prolongations 

 of the outer margin. 



Underside. Forewing grey, lighter on the lower half of 

 the wing; cell with a brown spot towards the base small and 

 surrounded by white; a central black spot surrounded with white, 

 which is plentifully covered with blue scales, giving a perfectly 

 blue border to the spot when viewed directly; end of cell marked 

 with a black bar, bordered internally with white, covered with 

 blue scales, and externally principally with white; from this bar 

 in an oblique direction basally to the inner margin descends a 

 black bar wholly external to the cell, and marked off into spots 

 by the median nervure and nervules. The discal band consists 

 first of a series of three small brown spots surrounded by white, 

 divided by the nervules: next two larger darker spots bordered 

 with white, covered with a few blue scales internally; these two 

 spots lie between the discoidals, and the lower discoidal and first 

 median nervules; between the first and second median nervules 

 and nearer the outer margins than the former spots lies an oval 

 dark spot, and obliquely below this a paler spot. The general 

 colour of the wing is almost white. There is a submarginal 

 brown band. Hindiving grey, with indistinct markings somewhat 

 after the pattern found on the underside of the hindwing of 0. 

 orwtes, Hew., but very indistinct. Along the disc between the 

 nervules is a series of five inverted " fl3'ing bird " marks, the 

 uppermost being furthest from the outer margin; the central 

 portion of the outer margin is broadly marked with rich brown, 

 as is also the anal lobe. 



This magnificent species is described from a single specimen ((J) 

 caught at Cooktown during the present year by Mr. R. E. Turner, 

 who has kindly allowed me to describe it. In shape it is almost 



