BY G. A. WATERHOUSE. 185 



If the next species is the true C. erinus then Donovan and 

 Semper are wrong, and suhpallidus must be the name for tliis 

 insect, which ranges through North West and North Australia 

 and Queensland, ])ut not into New South Wales (J 6, 9 3). 



Gandalides hyacinth ina, Semper (Plates ii., 20: iii., fig. ."3). 



Holochila hyacintMna, Semper, Mus. Godf. Lep. xiv. p. 1G2, 

 1878 : H. eriniis, Herr.-Schff. (nee Fabr.), Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1869, 

 p. 75, t. 4, % 19; And. & Spry, Vict. Butt. p. 91, 1894: 

 Cupiclo simplex, Tepp., Trans. Koy. Soc. S.A. p. 30, t. 2, fig. 10, 

 1882. 



(J. 13-15 mm. (14) Upperside uniform purplish, slightly 

 shining, with brown outer margins. Cilia grey. 



Underside grey, discocellular streak of fore wing always 

 present; markings as in C. erinus, somewhat larger and not differ- 

 ing so much from groundcolour, two black spots of forewing not 

 so clearly defined as in C. eri^ius. Cilia grey. 



9. 13-16 mm. (15). Upperside. — Foreioing dark brown, 

 with centrobasal area rich purple, of very variable extent, some- 

 times occupying base and more than \ wing, extending to inner 

 margin, sometimes reduced to a splash of purple between median 

 and submedian nervures. Cilia grey. Hindiviiiy blackish-brown, 

 with a variable purple area sometimes occup3dng the space 

 between subcostal and submedian except outer margin, sometimes 

 reduced to a basal splash. Cilia grey. 



U n d e r s i d e as in ^. 



This is the so-called large form of C. erinus, and is figured 

 under that name by Herrich-Schafter, and Anderson and Spry. 

 But Semper has shown that it is different from C. erinus, which 

 has white cilia and less colour on the upperside. 



Loc. — West and South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, 

 Brisbane to Mackay. In Southern Queensland it is taken with 

 C. erinus {$'20, 9 14). 



