BY G. A. WATERHOUSE. 183 



Candalides albosericea, Miskin (Plate ii , figs. 24-25). 



Holochila albosericea, Misk., Syn. Cat. Rhop. Aust. p. 65, 1891. 



(J. 15-1 G mm. Upperside shining white, with a .slight 

 greyish-blue basal suffusion, and a black tip to apex of forewing. 

 Cilia brown. 



Underside uniformly brown without markings. 



9. 15-16 mm. Upperside bluish-white, slightly darker at 

 base, apical \ of forewing black, decreasing along outer margin 

 to near angle, outer margin of hindwing cloudy. Cilia brown. 



Underside uniformly brown without markings. 



This is one of the most remarkable of Australian Lycaenidce 

 being quite destitute of markings below, and on the upperside 

 reminding one of the Pierid genus Elodina. I think that 

 in the future this species will have to be separated from Can- 

 dalides-, though it has a similar neuration, the antennae are 

 extremely short, being about \ length of costa. Holochila ecu- 

 Tuleolactea, described by Dr. Lucas in a newspaper in Brisbane 

 during 1891, is probably this species, but newspaper descrip- 

 tions cannot be allowed to stand. Miskin gives Expedition 

 Range near Rockhampton as the locality for this species, but 

 all the other specimens have come from Stradbroke Island, More- 

 ton Bay {$ 3, 9 2). 



Candalides erinus, Fabricius (Plate ii., figs. 17-18). 



Pap. erinus, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 525, 1775; Don., Ins. New 

 Holl. t. 31, f. 3, 1805; Semp., Mus. Godf. Lep. xiv. p. 162, 1878: 

 Polyommatus snhpallidus, Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qsld. vi. p. 117, 

 t. 6, f. 1-2, 1889. 



(J. 11-14 mm. (12). Upperside shining brown, with a 

 slight purplish reflection, black outer margins much broader at 

 apex of forewing. Cilia white. 



Underside. — Forewing greyish-white, discocellular bar if 

 present very faint; discal band of interneural brown spots almost 

 straight, beyond which the wing is much whiter; submarginal 

 series of indistinct dark spots, of which the two towards angle 



