182 AUSTRALIAN RIIOPALOCERA : LYC.KNID.K, III., 



9. 17 mm. Shaped as in $ rather than like C. ahsimiHs Q; 

 terminal joint of palpi very long. 



U p p e r s i d e. — Foreicing pale blue, with costal margin black 

 except towards base, apex broadly and outer margin black, a 

 white streak from end of cell to near outer margin. Cilia white. 

 Hindwbiy blue, with a brownish costal margin and a black 

 narrow outer margin widest at apex, a whitish patch between sub- 

 costal nervure and nervule. Cilia white. 



Under sid e. — Foreioing with discocellular spot almost obso- 

 lete, a black outer marginal line, submarginal line broken, other- 

 wise as in (J. Hindtving as in (J, with subbasal spots smaller, 

 and outer marginal spots very distinct, that near anal angle large 

 and jet black. 



I have described this species from a single pair taken at Port 

 Darwin by Mr. Gilbert Turner during last November; neither 

 specimen unfortunately is quite perfect, but they are sufficiently 

 free from rubbing to show that they are quite distinct from any- 

 thing yet known from Australia. 



The undersides are much more distinctly marked, especially 

 with regard to the discal series, than C. ahsimilis; and it should 

 be noted that the second spot of the discal series of hindwing is 

 much nearer base than first. 



On the upperside the male is nearest C. ahsimilis, but much 

 paler; as to whether the arrow-shaped sexual mark is present it 

 is difficult to say, as the male is rubbed at that point, but it 

 apparently is there; the female is markedly distinct from the 

 females of the thi^ee allied species, and seems to occupy a position 

 intermediate between C. absimilis (^ 9) with white areas much 

 reduced. This species tends to show further that the group, as 

 typified by C. absimilis, is very varied; and that we have here 

 four variations of a much older species. A similar state of things 

 centres around Miletus ignita, though there the different forms 

 cannot be so clearly picked out as in the C. absimilis group 



