1 64 AUSTEALIAN IIIIOPA LOCh'IlA : L YCJISID.K, IT!., 



Miletus miskixi, n.sp. (Plate iii., figs. 30-31). 



(J. 15 mm. Upp e r s i d e. — Forewimj dall lustrous purple, with 

 black outer margin, broadest at apex, decreasing to angle. Cilia 

 short brown. Hind wing dull lustrous purple, with a very narrow 

 black outer margin. Costal margin from base to apex broadly 

 Ijrown. Abdominal fold grey. Cilia brown. 



Underside. — Foretving stone-grey. Cell yellow, with a 

 central metallic green waved line; subcostal nervure to end of 

 cell marked with green, a basal green costal line; end of cell 

 marked with an orange bar bounded internally with metallic 

 green and externally with black, then metallic green ; below 

 middle and end of cell faint yellow spots; disc marked by a yellow 

 transverse bar more or less sprinkled internally with metallic 

 green reaching to first median nervule; margin marked with a 

 broad decreasing band of orange, within which are five inter- 

 neural black spots more or less obliterated with metallic green 

 scales; on costa between discal band and end of cell are placed a 

 few small spots of metallic green. Cilia brown. Ilindtcing stone- 

 grey, with six orange-red bands; first along costa at base, inter- 

 nall}'- bordered with metallic green; second basal along the com- 

 mencement of costal nervure and continued across base of cell, 

 bordered externally with metallic green; third subbasal, consist- 

 ing of two elongate spots bordered on both sides wdth green, one 

 above and one in cell; fourth extending right across wing a little 

 beyond middle of cell, bordered on both sides with metallic green 

 except the large spot near costa; fifth short, consisting of a ver}' 

 large conspicuous spot marking end of cell, bordered on either 

 side first with black then with green, also below this a small spot; 

 sixth discal, curved, internally bordered with green except towards 

 abdominal margin where the large spot is bordered on both sides 

 first with black and then with green ; outer margin broadly 

 orange, along which runs a submarginal interneural band of 

 green, in region of anal angle this orange margin internally 

 bordered first with black, then with green. Cilia brown. 



