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9. 14-18 mm. (17). Upper side. — Forewing with central 

 metallic blue area and black costal and outer margins, Ijlack 

 costal ])and extending half way into cell, very ]:)road at apex 

 and angle but narrower at middle of outer margin. Cilia gre}'. 

 HindtniiKj purple, more or less suffused with blue at base, costal 

 margin broadly brown, outer margin brown. Cilia grey. The 

 relative amounts of blue and purple present vary according to 

 the position of the insect. 



U n d e r s i d e. — Foreiving creamy-white; cell and adjoining 

 costal area yellow, traversed by three metallic green lines from 

 base, first close to costa, second marking subcostal nervule, third 

 through middle of cell; end of cell marked by a yellow spot, 

 bordered on either side by metallic green, above this towards 

 ■costa a suffusion of metallic green; disc marked by a straight 

 band of pale yellow internally bordered with green, especially 

 towards costa; outer margin markedly yellow except at angle, 

 with an interneural series of five black spots almost obscured with 

 metallic green scales. Cilia grey. Hindwing creamy-white, with 

 l)ands as in ^J, but the ])asal ones are rich orange-red and the 

 discal band and outer margin are yellow. The large spot mark- 

 ing end of cell is very conspicuous, more so than in (J. Cilia 

 grey. 



This species is named from a male in collection of Mr. R. Illidge, 

 Brisbane, who has kindly lent it to me, and from several females 

 in my own collection, received from Messrs. R. E. Turner, Tryon 

 and Lucas. It is curious that out of fifty specimens examined 

 only three have been males, whereas in this genus the males 

 usually predominate. There seems to be very little variation 

 except that the colour of the bands of the underside undergoes 

 some change and the metallic scales often appear blue. The 

 difference in the groundcolour of the sexes is very evident, and 

 an important mark is the large spot at end of cell on underside 

 of hindwing. 



I have named this species after Mr. W. H. Miskin, in whose 

 collection, now in the Queensland Museum, it appears under the 

 name of //. narcissus^ Fabr. Dr. Lucas has sent it to me as //. 



