230 AUSTRALIAN lUloPA I.OCKRA -. I. Yi\t:MD.r.. III., 



Hhidfring brownish-purple, slightly blue at base, a uniform dark 

 brown outer margin. Cilia paler brown. Sometimes one or lK»th 

 of the dark anal spots appear on the upperside. 



U n d e r s i d e uniform pale brown, with darker bands margined 

 with white as in general description; diseal band of fore wing 

 below "Jnd metiian often placed much nearer base. Caudal spot 

 large, nearly surrounded with bright orange and sprinkled with 

 metallic green. Cilia brown. 



9. 10-11 mm. Shape as in ^, with outer margin of forewing 

 slightly more convex. 



Upperside. — Fiorwiw/ brown, with central area blue, 

 extending from base J across wing and from lower ?, of cell to 

 inner margin; a fine marginal darker line. Cilia paler brown. 

 Hindfcing brown, sometimes pale blue at base; a submarginal 

 row of indistinct interneural black spots, that corresponding to 

 large oval spot of underside most developed. A dark marginal 

 line, internal to which is a white line interrupted by the nervules. 

 Cilia pale brown, darker at terminations of nervules. 

 Underside as in ^C- 



In shape this species is similar in both sexes to X. ben nice, 

 which, however, is much larger and is tailed, and also has the 

 markings of underside better detined with white. The colour of 

 the males is different, but the females differ only in the less extent 

 of blue on the upperside. It differs in shape from X.filderi, 

 having a more convex outer margin to the forewing: but in colour 

 is somewhat similar to that species, which, however, is t^viled. 

 The difference in shade between the groundcolour and the bands 

 of the underside is more marked, and the white borders to these 

 bands are less marked in X./elderi than in this species. Semper 

 remarks that this species differs from the allied form, X. herenice, 

 in its smaller size and the absence of a tail. 



Druce, in whose collection the type now is, savs '"it can at 

 once be distinguished from X. herenice by the ultramedian band 

 on the forewing l)elow l>eing more continuous, ?'.»».. the loNver half 

 not being placed further inwards than the upper half. " But 

 this is a most unstable character in this group, so little reliance 



