800 AUSTEALIAN RHOPALQCERA : LYC.-EyiD.E, IV., 



9. Fo7'ewings shaped much as in the male, with the outer 

 margin slightly more convex; hindwings with three short blunt 

 tooth-like projections to the submedian and first and second 

 median branches, the central one being the longest. 



Upper side. — Foreivings black, with lower half of cell and 

 extending to inner margin glossy blue. Hindwings black, with 

 cell and somewhat beyond gloss}^ blue. 



Underside as in the male, but somewhat more brilliantly 

 marked. 



Type (9) in Coll. Waterhouse. 



This is the finest of the ignita group of Miletus we have seen. 



Miletus narcissus, Fabricius. 



Mr. Druce writes: "I have compared the specimen you sent 

 with the type in the Banksian Collection and found it identical. 

 I have also closely examined the 3 99 from Thursday Island, 

 and have come to the conclusion that 5'our opinion as to their 

 being M. narcissus (9) is quite correct. When I wrote my 

 monograph nothing was known of the female of 31. narcissus.'" 

 These three specimens (9) from Thursday Island were caught by 

 Mr. G. F. Mathew and recorded by Mr. Druce as M. eucletus* 

 Felder, which must now be struck off our lists. 



Candalides erinus, Fabricius. 



Mr. Drucef has pointed out that I was quite correct in keeping 



C. eriiius and C. hyacinthiiia distinct; specimens of C. hyacin- 



thina in the British Museum bore the label of C. erinus, but on 



reference to the type in the Banksian Collection this was found 



to be incorrect. 



Candalides acasta, Cox. 



Mr. Druce writes: " I fear your evidence for sinking C. anita 

 under C. acasta is rather weak." There is some uncertainty, 

 indeed, in this course, but we know of no other South Australian 

 species to which the description of acasta could apply. 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1891, p. 188. 

 t Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1903. 



