178 AUSTRALIAN RIIOP ALOCKRA : LYC.EXJD .E, III., 



l^oc. — Victoria, New South Wales, Brisbane to Rockhampton 

 (^15,9 14). 



This species is at once recognised by the orange spot of fore 

 winf'; it is allied to the Australian species of Philiris, except- 

 ing in shape. 



Candalides heathi. Cox (Plate iii., fig. 6). 



Lye. heathi, Cox, Ent. iv. p. 402, 1873; Hoi. heathi, And. & 

 Spry, Vict. Butt. ii. p. 93, 1894; Lye. paradoxa, Guest, Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. S. A. 1882, p. 36. 



(J. 12-16 ram. (14). Up per side uniform shining slightly 

 purplish-brown, with nervules paler brown and outer marginal 

 borders darker. Cilia pale brown. 



Underside pale greyish-white, with interneural outer 

 marginal black dots variable in size and number, very fresh 

 specimens showing bluish bases. Cilia white. 



g. 13-18 mm. (15). Upper side light brown with centro- 

 basal areas blue. Cilia white. 

 U n d e r s i d e as in (J. 



T^oc. South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Brisbane 



(^15,913). 



Candalides absimilis, Felder (Plate iii., figs. 8-9). 



Hoi. absimilis, Feld., Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesell. Wien, xii. p. 490, 



1862; Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 261, t. 32, fig. 14-16, 1865; Olliff. 



Aust. Butt. p. 23, 1889; And. & Spr}^ Vict Butt. ii. p. 90, 1894. 



(J. 15-17 mm. (16). Upperside uniform violet-blue, with 



very faint black costal and outer margins. Cilia white. 



Underside. — Foreiving silky white, with dark brown spots; 

 one elongate, marking end of cell; two transverse interneural 

 series, one submarginal faint, the other discal more conspicuous, 

 sometimes an obscure series of brownish marginal blotches. 

 Cilia white. Hindicing silky white, with dark brown spots 

 situated in similar positions to those of fore wing, but the spots 

 of discal and submarginal series lunular in shape; a subbasal 

 row of four small round black spots, one above, one in, and 



