•238 AUSTRALIAN RIIOPALOCERA : LYC.r.S ID.K, III., 



Una serpentata, Herrich-Schaffer. 



Lye. serpentata^ Herr.-Schff., Stett. Eiit. Zeit. p. 74, n. 32, 18G9; 

 And. & Spry, Vict. Butt. p. 88, 1894 : Ciipido mohjhdena, Guest, 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A. iv. p. 36, 1882 : C. fasciola, Tepper, Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. S.A. iv. p. 30, t. 2, f. 13, 1882. 



(J. 9-11 mm. (10). Forewinfj with costa nearly straight, apex 

 blunt, outer margin somewhat convex. Hindwimj rounded, with 

 a small tail-like prolongation to 1st median. 



Upper side slaty brown, with pale purplish-blue centrobasal 

 areas of variable extent always occupying ^ wing, two anal spots 

 usually indistinct, with one to three subanal whitish lunules. 

 Cilia white, markedly spotted. 



Underside slaty brown, with spots very little darker, 

 markedly bordered with white, discal area of hindwing suffused 

 with white, anal spots often obsolete. Cilia as above. 



5. 9-12 mm. (11). U p p e r s i d e as in |J, but coloured areas 

 paler blue and less extensive. 



Underside as in (J, with white suffusions more extensive. 



Herrich-Schaffer says his species has blue above, and is allied 

 to N. perusia below; yet Semper corrects him by saying that it 

 has no blue above, thus showing Semper was referring to U. sul- 

 pitius and not to this species. C . fasciola and C. molyhdena are 

 undoubtedly synonyms. L. palemon, Cram., a South African 

 species, has been recorded from Melbourne by Butler;* the speci- 

 men is without doubt this species, which is close to the South 

 African species; Trimen,t however, made enquiries, and in a 

 letter from Butler to Trimsn it is pointed out that the specimen 

 was distinct from the South African form. 



Loc. — Every part of Australia except the extreme north, my 

 localities being North West Australia, South Australia, Victoria, 

 Sydney, Richmond R,iver and Brisbane ((J 40, 9 15). 



* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 85. 

 t South African Butt. ii. p. 68, 1887. 



