208 AUSTRALIAN liUOrALOCKllA: LYCJ'.S I D.I': III., 



(J. ll-l-t 11)111. {^'^)- Forewiiig with costa very gently arched, 

 outer margin convex. Hlndwing with outer margin rounded, a 

 short tail to the extremity of 1st median nervule. 



Upperside. — Forewlag pale purplish, with a veiy narrow 

 brown costal margin, a somewhat broader brown outer margin; 

 base of wing dark blue. Cilia pale. Hiyidvnng pale purplish, 

 with a broad pale brown costal margin, a somewhat narrower 

 darker brown outer margin, the dark spots of underside sometimes 

 showing through ; base dark blue. Tail short, brown, tipped 

 with white. Cilia pale brown. 



Underside. — Forevnag whitish, with a numVjer of dark 

 brown bands, mostly transverse, irregularl}^ sinuated, variable in 

 size. Costa whitish, especially at base, below this a dark brown 

 bar from base to middle of costa, below this a triangular brown 

 spot; of the six transverse bands 1, 3 and 5 are usually broader 

 and darker than 2, 4 and 6; a submarginal wavy brown line within 

 which is a series of brown spots. Outer margin marked with a 

 dark line. Cilia pale brown, faintl}'" spotted. Hindtving with 

 pattern as in forewing but not so defined into bands; they may 

 be described as three broad dark brown bands surrounded 

 markedly with white, the intervening spaces more or less filled 

 with paler brown; base of costa white; a dark brown blotch at 

 apex, marginal series of interneural brown spots crowned with 

 brown, those on either side of base of tail jet black crowned with 

 pale orange and sprinkled with metallic green, a narrow marginal 

 brown line. Cilia brownish. Tail brown, tipped with white. 



9. 11-14 mm. (13). Shape as in $ except that the outer 

 margin is more convex. 



U p p e r s i d e. — Foreiving with broad brown costal and outer 

 margins, basal area of wing shining blue extending more or less 

 across wing, inner margin brown; central area marked with sub- 

 quadrate white spots, sometimes suff'used with bluish, first situated 

 in lower outer corner of cell; below it another; a third well 

 beyond cell largest; there is also a discal series of five or six, 

 all small. In worn specimens the appearance is of four (or five) 

 large brown spots standing in a whitish suffusion. Cilia pale. 



