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h. Underside brown, with unconspicuous markings; upper- 

 side coppery cyjn-otm^. 



C. Underside uniform brown, without markings; upperside 



silvery white olbosericea. 



These are at once marked off into the absirailis group, in 

 which the palpi are only clothed with very short hairs, and the 

 terminal joint is very long, especially so in 9; this group is very 

 close to Pseudodipsas. The erinus group has much shorter and 

 much more hairy palpi, and is related to the absimilis group by 

 the whitish underside of C. erlnns. The typical C. xantJiosjnJos, 

 by reason of the orange patch of the forewing, stands alone in 

 the genus, which by its white underside it connects with Philiris. 

 C. heathi connects the erinus group with C. xanthospilos and the 

 genus Philiris. C. cyprotivs is nearest to the erinus group, while 

 C. albosericea stands alone in the genus and is very distinct from 

 every other Australian Lycienid. 



Candalides xanthospilos, Hiibner (Plate iii., fig. 5). 



Rusticus adolescens xanthospilos, Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schmett. 

 1806-16 : Hoi. xanthospilos, >Staud., Exot. Schmett. pi. xciv. 1888; 

 And. & Spry, Vict. Butt. ii. p. 89, 1894: Polyommatus hilbneri, 

 Godt., Enc. Meth. ix. p. 677, 1819: Erina pidchella, Swains., 

 Zool. 111. ii. t. 134, 1832 : Lye. hyzos, Boisd., Voy. Astr. Lep. p. 81, 

 1832. 



(J. 12-15 mm. (14). Upperside. — Foreumiy black, with 

 centrobasal area suffused with shining purple, a large ovoid yellow 

 spot below lower end of cell. Cilia whitish. Hindwiny black, 

 with central area slightly sufiused with purple. Cilia white. 



Underside silky white, with outer marginal interneural 

 series of black dots better defined on hind wing, two black dots 

 just at end of cell and one below middle of cell of hindwing. 

 Cilia white. 



9. 13-16 mm. (15). Upperside as in (J, but wanting the 

 purplish suffusions, orange spot larger. Cilia white .-^ ^ -s 



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