190 AUSTRALIAN RUOPALOCERA : LYCEMD.E, III., 



underside of both sexes being silky white without markings. 

 Holocliila fulgens, figured by Grose Smith k Kirby,* is an allied 

 species. 



Zoc— Cairns, Q. {$ 3, 9 3). 



Philiris nitens, Grose Smith. 



Hoi. 7ute7is, G. Smith, Nov. Zool. v. p. 107, 1898; G. Smith & 

 Kirby, Rhop. Exot. pt. 49, 1899. 



"(?• XJpperside. — Foreicing dull brown, with a basal pale 

 silvery blue area extending along inner margin to three-quarters 

 its length, extending obliquely upwards to the lower part of the 

 cell and over the base of the two median nervules. Hindwing 

 with the basal four-fifths pale silvery blue, the outer one-fifth 

 being dull brown. 



Underside white. The apex of forewing and angle of 

 hindwing acuminate, as in H. fulgens. • 



Hah. — N. Queensland. Exp. \\ in." 



The above is the description from the ' Rhopalocera Exotica '; 

 the figure is rather purple than silvery-blue and less extensive 

 than in P. innotatus, but I still doubt if it is quite distinct from 

 that species; the figure is slightly smaller than in average P. 

 innotatus ^ in my collection. 



PsEUDODiPSAS, Felder. 



Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 243, 1860; (part) Hew., Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 343. 



Forewing with a three-branched subcostal, first branch quite 

 free from costal. Costa, outer and inner margins straight in .J, 

 outer margin convex in 9, apex very acute in g. Hindvnng 

 rather produced at anal angle, with three very short tail-like pro- 

 jections, quite different from those of Lyccnesthes. Tj-pe, P. 

 eone, Felder. 



This genus is allied to the C. absimilis group of Candalides, 

 the main points of difference being the straighter costal and 



* Rhop. Exot. pt. 39, 1S97. 



