174 AUSTRALIAN RIIOPALOCERA: LYC.flS ID.K, III., 



Upperside brownish-black, with ceiitrobasal areas pale 

 blue, more extensive on forewing, entering cell; less extensive on 

 hindwing than in ^. Cilia white marked with black. 



Underside as in (J, but the blackish gi'ound colour always 

 much lighter, usually cream except lower basal half of forewing. 



Outside Australia this species appears to be represented only b}^ 

 the type ((J) in the British Museum; this is unfortunate, as it was 

 the first of the section described. The species referred to b3'Miskin, 

 and appearing in his collection at Brisbane under this name, has a 

 purple male, and is more nearly allied to J/, protogeniis than this 

 species. Specimens of true M. tiarcissus, however, appear in Mis- 

 kin's collection, and in many others, under the name of J/, eucletus, 

 which I doubt to be Australian. ILplotinus (1894) and J/, dryope 

 (1895) figured in the ' Rhopalocera Exotica' belong to the same 

 section as this species, which is also very close to the next. 



Loc. — Cooktown, Thursday Island. 



Miletus eucletus, Felder. 



Hypochrysops PAidetus, Feld., Reise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 253. 1865; 

 Druce, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 188, pi. 10, figs. 12, 13. 



I know this species onl}^ from descriptions and from Druce's 

 figures, upon which my remarks are based. 



(J. 17 mm. (from fig.). Upperside as in J/, narcissus, but 

 with the blue somewhat paler. 



Underside as in M. narcissus, with the yellow of forewing 

 much more extensive along costa, the lower portion of forewing 

 being less suffused with blackish, which appears from the figure 

 to be totally absent from the groundcolour of hindwing. The 

 female is said to differ from g in having the blue of upperside 

 paler and more extensive than in q; and the j^ellow groundcolour 

 of hindwing below, being more or less suffused with dark purplish- 

 brown. 



The type (9) is from Gilolo, and my only reason for including 

 it in the Australian fauna is Druce's reference to Thursday Island 

 (Mathew). I have specimens of M. narcissus ((J9) from both 



