162 AUSTRALIAN RIIOPALOCKRA -. LYC.EN ID.F., III., 



in rediscovering this beautiful species. Its nearest Australian 

 ally is M. apelles. 



Log. — Herbert River, Q. 



Miletus apelles, Fabricius. 



Fa]j. apelles, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 524, 1775; Don., Ins. New 

 Holl. t. 30, f. 2, 1805 : Hypochrysojja apelles, Mathew, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.Wales, p. 265, 1885; Staud., Exot. Schmett. t. 94, 1888; 

 Druce, Trans. Eat. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 186. 



(J. 14-17 mm. (15). U p p e r s i d e. — Foreiving rich orange-red, 

 apical half of costa, apex and outer margin black, much wider at 

 apex. Cilia inconspicuous, brownish. Hindwing rich orange-red, 

 with costa broadly black and outer margin narrowly black, 

 nervules marked with black. Cilia brownish. 



Undersid e. — Forewing with apical area, angle and base 

 below median nervule slaty to reddish-brown, rest of wing 

 yellow; discal band nearly obsolete, represented by a few sub- 

 apical yellow spots which run into the marginal band about 

 middle; outer margin yellow, with a series of black spots well 

 marked with metallic green; cell yellow, with two metallic lines; 

 several metallic spots between end of cell and apex. Cilia brown. 

 Hindwing brown, with broad red bands as indicated in general 

 description, bordered with metallic green; discal band irregular, 

 nearer to outer margin below subcostal, and giving off a spur 

 above anal angle; marginal band confined to anal angle, bordered 

 inwardly with black and outwardly with metallic green, which 

 extends along margin; a yellow marginal line, a black spot at 

 termination of first median. Cilia brown. 



9. 13-15 mm. (14). Outer margins of both wings more rounded 

 than in ^. 



TJ p p er s i d e much paler and more restricted orange than in 

 ^, not extending to inner margin of forewing, nervules of hind- 

 wing markedly defined with black. 



Underside as in ^, with marginal band of forewing better 

 defined. 



