lOG AUSTRALIAN JUIOPA UJCKIiA : LVCHSJ D.E, III., 



areas. Miskiii's desci-iption is full. It is probaljly the species 

 determined by Semper as D. alenas from Cooktowii. The only 

 locality for it kiK^wn to me is Cairns ((J 2, 9 2). 



Lampides aleuas, Felder. 



Lijc. alenas {^), Feld., Reise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 268, t. 33, f. 15, 16, 

 1865: Danis aleuas, Semp., Mus. Godf. Lep. xiv. p. 155, 1878 : 

 Lijc. alcas (9), Feld., Reise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 268, t. 33, f. 27, 28, 

 1865. 



,^. 18 mm. Foi-'iinuig with costa arched, apex very blunt, 

 almost rounded; outer margin nearly straight, inner margin 

 straight. Hindwlny with outer margin semicircular; a tail is 

 present at extremity of first median nervule. 



Upper sid e. — Foreiviny pale blue, with white discal patch 

 which is ]t of width of wing, wholly external to cell, and wholly 

 below median nervure, occupying a central position; apex and 

 outer margin bordered with brown, rest of wing pale metallic 

 blue (not so shining or silvery as in L. c(desfis), with costa and 

 costal area plentifully sprinkled with white scales. Cilia very 

 .short, brown. Hindwiny with outer half pale blue; base of wing 

 pale blue; rest of wing white; outer margin brown, internal to 

 which is a white line interrupted by blue at nervules, a brown 

 patch on the inner side of each of this series of white lines. 

 Cilia brown. Tail broNvn, tipped with white. 



U nd e r s i d e. — Forewiny brown and white, the brown occu- 

 pying the same position as does the blue on upperside, basal 

 third of costa marked by a white line, outer margin also marked 

 by a white line external to which are the brown cilia; end of cell 

 marked by a darker brown bar bounded by a white line on both 

 ,sides and below; a short band is present near apex consisting of 

 three darker brown spots bordered on their sides with white, 

 placed one over the other, these spots are situated between 3rd 

 subcostal nervule and subcostal nervure, subcostal and upper 

 discoidal, and upper and lower discoidal nervules; a submarginal 



