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spots black, cr(jvvii(3<l witli <)raii^(i and s})riiiklf3(l witli mciallic 

 green. Cilia as above. 



Wlieri in Jjris})ane, last year, 1 examined tiie type (^) uf L. 

 tamnanicnx, and was able afterwards to identify two females in 

 the collections of Mr. Tllidgc; and the (.Queensland Museum a>i the 

 other sex of Miskin's species, undei- which there is no doubt that 

 Lucas' species must sink. T have compared Mr. Tllidge's speci- 

 men with Felder's figure, and can detect no difference, and so 

 conclude they are the same, though Felder's type was from 

 Amboina. Semper records a male, saying that but for the 

 spotted cilia, he would have called it lineMa^ Murray ; Miskin 

 places this reference under llneaf.a. Then; is no doubt in my 

 mind that Semper had a male specimen of the species Miskin 

 afterwards called L. tasjnauicus, which is allied to JV. li/neaia, but 

 has che<iuered cilia, and the underside is marbled somewhat after 

 the pattern of U. scintUlatd; until I was enablec] to examine Mr. 

 Illidge's female I thought it would belong to Utlca, as the 

 resemblance is close, but both N. palmyra and N. Unmla have 

 the costal nervure anastomosed with the first subcostal for a 

 sliort distance and then running free to costa, though in Ijoth 

 these species this terminal portion is faint and difficult to detect, 

 showing a relationship to Utica. 



The species under consideration is rare, only about ten speci- 

 mens being known from Brisl)ane and Cairns. iMiskin's locality 

 of Tasmania is of course an ei'ror, as pointed out by him. 



Nacaduha DuinosA, Semper. 



Lam. dubiosa, Semp., Mus. Godf. Lep. xiv. p. 159, 1878 : iV. 

 dubiosa, Druce, P.Z.S. 1902, ii. p. 119 :,X//6'. canjunyens, Lucas, 

 Proc. 11. Soc. (,)sld. 1889, p. 100, f. 11, 12 : Lye. hdu, Misk., (nee 

 Math.), Syn. Cat. Rhop. Aust. p. o9, 1891. 



$. 10-12 mm. (11). Forewing with costa gently arched, apex 

 blunt, outer margin convex; hind wing with outer margin rounded, 

 without a tail. 



Up per side. — For^'jolwj bnjwnish-purple, slightly blue at 

 base, a uniform dark ])rown outer margin. Cilia paler brown. 



