226 AUSTRALIAN lUIOPALOCEllA : LYC.KMD.K, III., 



black and white, tipped witli white; anal and caudal spots black, 

 usually crowned with red. Cilia brownish. 



Underside white, with brown bands as in general descrip- 

 tion, well marked off from rest of wing. Caudal and anal spots 

 black, crowned with orange. Cilia whitish, at terminations of 

 iiervules brown. The discocellular and discal bands of hind wing 

 often join one another, and in one specimen the spot in centre of 

 cell of forewing is joined to the discocellular and discal bands b}^ 

 a broad brown band. 



9. 1 1-14 mm. (13) U p p e r s i cl e. — Forewing broad, blackish- 

 brown, costal and outer margins with a very variable centrobasal 

 blue area. Cilia brownish. HindiuviKj blackish-brown, with a 

 dark marginal line. Cilia white, at terminations of nervules 

 brown; a submarginal interneural series of five dark spots more 

 or less developed, the outer three and anal spot crowned with 

 white, the spot between 1st and 2nd median nervules always 

 largest and crowned with orange-red. Tail black and white, 

 tipped with white. The blue centrobasal area varies in both 

 wings from a slight basal area to one occupying nearly the whole 

 of wing, with base navy blue and discal band of underside 

 as represented above. 



Underside as in (^, with its variations. 



In shape and somewhat in colour on the upperside, this species 

 is allied to the larger Catochrysops straho, Fabr. Of N. f^orinda, 

 Druce says: "The type [Lo3^alty Islands] in the British Museum, 

 and a single specimen in our own collection, which agrees exactly 

 with it, are the only two I have seen. Mr. Miskin does not refer 

 to it, so that probably it is known under another name in Aus- 

 tralia." The figure (9) represents the form in which the discal 

 bands are reproduced above. Though I have not seen a specimen 

 from Amboina yet, relying on Felder's figure, and Semper and de 

 Niceville's determinations, I think that N. ancyra should be used 

 for the Australian species, and N. Jlorhida sunk as one of the 

 many forms. Cupido almora and N. pseustis are given as S3mo- 

 nyms by Mr. H. H. Druce. 



