194 AUSTRALIAN RHOPALOCERA : LYC .ES ID.E, III., 



submarginal linear band. Cilia brown. Hindwing silvery gre}^ 

 with brown spots, four subbasal, of which 2nd and 3rd are in cell, 

 a fifth spot on abdominal margin, an elongate spot in middle of 

 cell above and below which external to cell is another spot, a spot 

 near costa at middle, a broad curved costal series, a submarginal 

 lunular series, a small black spot near anal angle nearly surrounded 

 with orange, another on margin between first and second medians, 

 a brown marginal line internal to which is a white line and then 

 a series of brownish blotches. Cilia brown. 



9. 11-14 mm. (13). TJ ^^ qv ^ide, —Forewing black, with 

 pale blue scales very variable in extent, sometimes only occupy- 

 ing a small basal area between median and submedian nervures, 

 at others occupying | of wing, leaving only a black costal and 

 outer margin and a dark spot at end of cell. Cilia brown. 

 Hindwing brownish-black, with a white interneural almost mar- 

 ginal line, a submarginal series of bluish lunules which with the 

 white line enclose darker spot-like areas, cell often with a very 

 small splash of metallic scales, rarely a blue suffusion over most 

 of wing. Cilia white. 



Underside as in ^J, except that the spots are more distinct 

 and the subbasal spot in cell of forewing is often split up into two. 



This is a very variable species, the type male apparently having 

 more blue than any male I have seen; but this is not surprising, 

 as the three males in my collection all vary in that direction, but 

 usually the female has more blue than the male. As in several 

 other of our Lyccp.nidce, the male is much the rarer. 



Zoc. —Richmond River, N.S.W., to Cairns, Q. {$ 3, 9 6). 



PSEUDODIPSAS BRISBANENSIS, Miskin. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 18S4, p. 95 : Lyc.cyHliLs, And. k Spry, 

 Vict. Nat. 1897, pp. 5-7. 



J. 12 mm. Forewing with, costa and outer margin straight, 

 apex acute; three subcostal nervules, 1st entirely free from 

 costal, upper discoidal given off from subcostal well after and 

 not at end of cell as in the other three species. Hindioing 



