BY G. A. WATERHOUSE. 163 



Besides the colour of the upperside, this species may l)e recog- 

 nised by the absence of a definite discal band on the forewing 

 below. The locality of " West Australia " given by Druce must 

 no doubt refer to the most northern portion of that State. 



Loc. — Rockhampton to Cape York ((J 8, 9 6). 



Miletus haly.etus, Hewitson. 



Hy2:>ochr!jsops Italijoitus, Hew., Trans. Ent Soc, 1874, p. 350; 

 Druce, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 185, pi. x. figs. 4, 5 : Poly, ura- 

 nites, Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1887, p. 827. 



" (J. Wings above ca?rulean blue, with apical thirds brownish- 

 black; hindwing with a subraarginal orange band. Underside 

 orange-yellow, with large metallic green spots along costa and at 

 apex of forewing. Hindwing with three distinct wide bands of 

 meiallic green, the outer being composed of large oblong spots. 

 Female as in male, but lilac-blue, with a linear orange outer 

 margin to both wings. Exp. l^^in." (Druce). 



Hewitson gives the male as brilliant morpho-blue; and the 

 female lilac-blue above, with four bands of hrilliant gold-green oh 

 the underside of hindwing. 



Meyrick gives the male as of a brilliant light brassy-blue and 

 the female purple-blue, the hindwings beneath bright yellow- 

 ochreous, with three strongly curved series of moderate irregular 

 trapezoidal more or less confluent hluish-yolden spots. 



Mr. O. B. Lower, who has seen a specimen of Mr. Mey rick's 

 species, writes to me that "it resembled M. ignila, but all the 

 scarlet of the underside was wholly replaced by metallic blue- 

 yreen scales." 



A very careful consideration of the descriptions, together with 

 Mr. Lower's note, convinces me that J/, halycetus and M. uranites 

 are identical. I have long suspected this, but could not reconcile 

 the colour given to the bands on the underside by Hewitson and 

 Meyrick; still both Druce and Lower differ slightly from the 

 earlier descriptions. 



Zoc. —Swan River, W.A. (Hew.), Geraldton, W.A. (Meyr.). 



