202 AUSTRALIAN RllOPALOCERA ■.LYC.KyiDJ:, III., 



Underside greyish-white crossed by sHghtly darker bands 

 well bordered with white. Fovdwing with a short discocellular 

 band, a long curved discal band, often an indistinct spot on costa 

 between these bands, outer marginal lunular bands indistinct. 

 Cilia whitish. Hindtving with three subbasal spots, middle one 

 in cell, a short discocellular, a long curved discal band with 1st 

 spot nearer base than 2nd, outer marginal bands indistinct, caudal 

 spot black, crowned with orange, anal spot black. Cilia whitish. 



9. 11-15 mm. (14). Shape as in ^. 



TJpperside brown, centrobasal areas blue, variable in 

 extent; outer margin of hindwing with two whitish interneural 

 lunular bands, caudal spot black, crowned with yellow. Cilia 

 whitish. Tail black, tipped with white. 



Underside as in ^J. 



This species is allied to C. strabo, Fabr., indeed the females of 

 the two are said to be identical; the typical lilac-blue male of 

 that species, however, has not yet been recorded from Australia. 

 On the upperside the female very closely resembles Nacaduha 

 ancyra 9- 



De Niceville determined Australian specimens as C. Jithargyria 

 but that name must give way to C. platissa; for Herrich-KSchaffer's 

 type (9) came from Australia, where C. straho does not occur; so 

 that C. platissa cannot be a synonym of that species. 



Log. — Brisbane to Cape York, North and North-West Austra- 

 lia {$ 10, 9 3). 



Catochrysops cnejus, Fabricius (Plate iii., fig. 10). 



Ilesperia cnejus, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppt. p. 430, 1798 : 6'. 

 cnejus, de Nicev., Butt. Ind. iii. p. 178, 1890: Lye. samoa, Herr.- 

 Scbff., Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxx. pi. iv. f. 18, p. 37, and p. 138, 1869. 



(J. 11-16 mm. (14). Upperside uniform pinkish-blue, with 

 greyish-brown outer margins, two black spots at anal angle of 

 hindwing. Tail brown, tipped with white. Cilia white. 



Underside. — Foreiving grey, with a darker discocellular 

 spot bordered with white, a discal band of five or six similar 

 spots, outer margin with a double indistinct brownish band. 



