1 QQ AUSTRALIAN lUlOPA LOCIUIA : /. YC.KMD.i:, III., 



eucIeUis, Feld. These two species, however, are blue on the 

 upperside in both sexes, and are of a very different shape. A 

 specimen sent to the late Mr. L. de Niceville was returned 

 labelled J/, protoyeiies, Feld. (?), to which this insect appears from 

 Druce's figure* to be somewhat allied. I have very carefully 

 compared my specimens with the tigures of //. thesaiirusij this 

 species is the nearest I have seen to the Australian form, but the 

 male has purple forewings, and hhte hindwings; on the underside 

 the colour is different and the discocellular of hindwing, which is 

 an important mark of my species, is not prominent. The figure 

 of the female on upperside is very close to my species, but the 

 description of the underside says it is like the male but paler; 

 whereas in my specimens the females are conspicuously lighter. 

 A note on M. protogene'i confirms my opinion that my sjDecies is 

 distinct from that. 



Log. — Brisbane to Cairns. 



Miletus delicia, Hewitson. 



Hypochry^ops delicia, Hew., Ent. Mo. Mag. xii. j). 38, 1875; 

 Druce, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 186, t. 10, figs. 6, 7; And. 

 & Spry, Vict. Butt. ii. p. 94, 1894. 



(J. 15-20 mm. (18). Shape as in M. iynita ^. 



XJ p JD e r s i d e. — Forewing velvet}^ black, with costa grey at 

 base, centrobasal area silvery metallic green, extending to inner 

 margin and occupying J to whole of cell. Cilia greyish. Hind- 

 wing as in forewing, with nervules marked in black in metallic 

 area and two orange-red spots near anal angle. 



Underside light brown, cell yellowish, bands of red, 

 bordered with metallic as in general description, submarginal 

 band of red without black spots, three black spots in and below 

 cell of forewing as in J/, ignita. Cilia brownish. 



^. lG-21 mm. (18). Shape as in M. iynita $. 



Druce, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, pt. ii. pi. x. figs. 14, 15. 

 t Ct. Smith & Kirby, lihop. Exot. pt. 30, 1894. 



