198 AUSTRALIAN lUlOPALOCERA -. LYC.flNIDJ:, III., 



This species may be recognised by the rounded apex of fore- 

 wing, and outer margin of hind wing. In spite of the Australian 

 records of de Niceville and Druce* for this species, I always 

 supposed they referred to the next species, until I received a 

 single male from Mr. Lower, which agrees exactly with the 

 various descriptions of L. emolus, and also with an Indian speci- 

 men (^) in the Macleay Museum. 



Lycenesthes modestus, n.sp. (Plate iii., fig. 38). 



L. phaseli, Misk., (nee Math.), Syn. Cat. Rhop. Aust. p. 59, 

 1S91. 



(J. 12-15 mm. (H). Forewlng withcosta nearly straight, apex 

 acute, outer margin straight. 



Upperside shining purplish-blue, with dark marginal lines; 

 costal and abdominal margins brown; iwo jet black interneural 

 spots near anal angle, three short white ciliated tails. Cilia 

 brown, white near anal angle of hindwing. 



Underside greyish-brown, with slightly darker spots as in 

 general description. A brown spot on abdominal margin near 

 base. Cilia brown. 



Q. 12-15 mm. (li). Shape somewhat as in (J, but outer margin 

 of forewing more convex and outer margin of hindwing rounded. 

 Upperside brown, slightly darker towards margins, with 

 centrobasal areas suffused with blue. Anal angle wiih two 

 interneural black spots, crowned with white which sometimes 

 extends further along outer margin; an outer marginal black line 

 to hindwing. Cilia brown. 

 Underside as in g. 



This, the commonest of the genus in Australia, has been known 

 as Li/ccenesthes phaseli, but Mr. Druce has clearly shown f that 

 Mathew's Lampides phaseli belongs to the genus Jamides and so 

 has one moderate filamentous tail. Mathew, however, makes no 

 mention of a tail or tails, and his description might well answer 



*P.Z.S. 1891, p. 358. 

 tP.Z.S. 1892, p. 443. 



