650 AUSTRALIAN RHOPALOCERA : LYC.ENID^'E, II. , 



It is also allied to Myriita derpiha^ Hew.,"^ especially on the 

 underside. 



The larva is of a brilliant green, and was found by Mr. R. E. 

 Turner feeding on a species of Orchid ( Vanda section). The pupa 

 is also brilliant green with no markings, but a depression behind 

 the wings. 



I am indebted to Mr. R. E. Turner for specimens of this 

 insect from Kuranda near Cairns. 



Philiris, Rober. 

 Tijdschr. Ent. xxxiv., p. 317; Exot. Schmett. Theilii., p. 273, 1892. 



The type of this genus is Thecla ilias, Feld., and as both the 

 following species are closely allied to that species, I have placed 

 them in this genus, leaving aside the question for the present as 

 to whether it should be sunk under Candalides, Hiibn.,! the type 

 of which is C. xanthospilos, Hiibn. 



Philiris Kamerung^, sp.n. 



(^. Forewing with costa nearly straight, apex acute, outer 

 margin straight, inner margin straight. Hindwing with outer 

 margin entire. 



Up per side. — Foreioing with costal margin black, apex 

 broadly black, outer margin black. The black margin is bounded 

 by the subcostal nervure until the end of cell, then crosses the 

 end of cell towards the outer margin and becomes less extensive 

 to the angle. The rest of the wing purple, but viewed in some 

 directions blue, except a small white patch in the centre of the 

 wing external to the cell in the region of the median nervules. 

 Hindwing with a narrow black outer margin, rest of wing purple 

 except the apical angle, which is white above the subcostal 

 nervure. Abdominal fold white. Cilia white. 



Diurnal Lepid. Plate iii. b. (Supplt.), figs. 101, 102 (cJ), 1878. 

 t Verzeichniss bekannt. Schmett. 20 (1816). 



