214 AUSTRALIAN lUlOrALOCERA: LYC.KXID.E, III., 



which states characters not found in the British Museum speci- 

 men, L. lulu, Math., L. e.vAlis, Lucas (afterwards altered by him 

 to L. exiloides), L. yracllis, Misk., are all undoubtedly the same 

 species. 



Loc. — Brisbane to Cape York, Port Darwin (r^ 7, 9 ^)- 



ZizERA LABRADUS, Godart (Plate iii., fig. 29). 



Polyommatus labradus, Godt., Enc. Meth. ix. p. 680, 1819; 

 Druce, P.Z.S 1802, p. 435 : Lye. communis, Koch, MS.; Herr.- 

 Schff., Stett. Ent. Zeit. p. 72, 1869 : Lye. pJmbe, Murray, Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. X. p. 107, 1873: Cupido delicata, Tepper, Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. S.A. 1882, p. 30: Lye. jiervidgatus, Guest, Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 S.A. 1882, p. 36. 



^. 10-15 mm. (13). Neuration and shape as in figure. 



Upper sid e. — Both wings dull blue, with narrow costal and 

 broader dark grey outer margins, baseof wings darker blue; base 

 of costa of forewing suffused with whitish scales. Cilia white. 



Underside gre3ash-white to brownish-white, with dark 

 grey spots as in general description; no spot in cell of forewing, 

 subbasal series of hind wing with 1, 2 or 3 spots, 2nd spot of 

 discal series in hind wing always placed much nearer base than 

 1st. Cilia white. 



9. 8-15 mm. (13). Shape as in $. 



Upper side dark grey, lighter on costa of forewing; very 

 variable centrobasal blue areas, sometimes occupj'ing nearly -^ 

 wing, sometimes all but absent; a submarginal lunular whitish 

 band on hind wing, sometimes absent, sometimes ver}' distinct. 

 Cilia white. 



Underside as in ^. 



This is the commonest, most extended in range, and one of the 

 variable Australian Lyccenidce; and it is one of the very few that 

 are caught at such places as Bourke and Broken Hill. In some 

 cases the dark grey outer margins are only linear, and the colour 

 of the blue varies. The female is most variable; two specimens 

 in the Macleay Museum from Cape York show no blue on the 

 upperside, but the sulmiarginal band of hindwing is represented. 



