168 AUSTRALIAN lUIOPAWCKRA : LVC.KS I D.E, III., 



[Miletus ignita, Leach (Plate iii., figs. 13, 32, 33). 



Lye. ignita^ Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 136, t. GO, tigs. 1-3, 1814: 

 Hypochrysojys ignita, Druce, Trans. Ent. 8oc. Loud. 1891, p. 185; 

 And. ct Spry, Vict. Butt. ii. p. 97, 1894; //. oniffi^ :\Iisk., Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. [N.S.W. 1888, p. 1518. 



$. 10-16 mm. (14). Upper side. — Foretciug brown, with 

 much darker costal and outer margins, and often a dark discocel- 

 lular bar; wing usually suffused with purplish-brown often shining, 

 sometimes with a very distinct bluish tint; costa often brilliant 

 orange, sometimes black; often a subapical orange patch, in one 

 extreme case the whole of disc extending into cell and nearly to 

 inner margin suffused with orange, though this is more often only 

 represented by orange nervailes; other extreme represented b}^ 

 broader dark margins and a total absence of orange. Cilia greyish - 

 white. Hindfcing brown, with darker costal margin extending to 

 subcostal nerv^ure, usually a very narrow black outer margin; wing 

 similarly suffused with purplish-brown to the forewing, lower 

 nervules often well marked with orange; in one extreme instance 

 outer margin orange, with a thin black marginal line; some 

 specimens have an orange suffusion in centre of wing, usually a 

 darker discocellular spot. Cilia greyish-white, darker at termi- 

 nations of nervules. 



U n d e r s i d e. — ForeK-'ing light brown, cell and costa yellow, 

 outer margin orange-red, rarely extending below first median; 

 submarginal black and metallic spots the length of outer marginal 

 orange band; discal band scarlet, usuall}' bordered with black, 

 sometimes with metallic, sometimes ending at first median, some- 

 times at submedian; last spot often a dark blotch, discocellular 

 spot darker than cell, sometimes distinctly bordered outwardl}^ 

 Avith black; below this usually a black round spot, another often 

 below middle of cell, often with a third in cell just above it; one 

 specimen shows a faint subbasal black spot in cell. Cilia light 

 brown. Ilindiving light brown, crossed by scarlet bands bor- 

 dered with metallic green or blue as indicated in general descrip- 

 tion; outer margin scarlet, with a thin black line, discal band 



