240 AUSTRALIAN JUIOPALOCK/iA : LYCJISID.E, III , 



A. J" . Upperside brown, with a bluish sul^'usion. 

 a. Two black anal spots, basal half of hindwinj? 



on underside light brown onycha. 



h. No anal spots, basal half of hindwing on 



underside dark brown onyclia \a,i\ atrosujf'usa, 



B. J . Upperside purplish-brown; $ with a white 



spot in centre of forewing scintillata. 



Utica onycha, Hevvitson (Plate iii., figs. 14, 39). 



111. Diurn. Lep. p. 53, t. 24, f. 11, 12, 1865; Herr.-Schff., Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 72; Semp., Mus. Godf. Lep. xiv. p. 166, 1878; 

 Druce, P.Z.S. 1902, ii. p. 116 : Zt/c. miskini, Lucas, Proc. R. Soc. 

 Qsld. 1889, p. 158, f. 5, 6, 7 : Theclinesthes eremicola, Pagenst., 

 Zoologica, xxvii. p. 123, pi. ii. tig. 9, 1900. 



(J. 1 1-16 mm. (14). Upperside brown, covered ^yith lilac- 

 bluish scales except on outer margins and costal margin of hind- 

 wing; dark blue basally; a dark round caudal spot to hindwing 

 more or less bordered with white, and sometimes on either side 

 often extending well along outer margin, further interneural dark 

 spots more or less bordered with white. Tail short, highly ciliated, 

 black, tipped with white. Norvules more or less marked with 

 brown. Cilia whitish. 



Underside. — Forejviiuj some shade of brown, usually pale, 

 with spots often of same shade as groundcolour, often darker 

 brown, bordered on both sides more or less prominently with 

 white; 1st in middle of cell often represented b}' two parallel white 

 lines, or sometimes a spot extending below cell, a small spot 

 sometimes above it on costa; 2nd at end of cell, often with a spot 

 above it on costa; discal band from costa sometimes to 1st median, 

 sometimes to submedian ; a submarginal whitish lunular inter- 

 neural band often obscure, a dark marginal line; base of wing 

 sometimes showing greyish scales. Cilia whitish. Hindn-ing 

 concolorous with forewing; spots similar to forewing consisting 

 of a subbasal band of three crossing middle of cell, one elongated 

 at end of cell, a discal curved band, bent at anal angle; a sub- 

 marginal lunular band, a whitish suffusion very often between 

 middle of discal band and outer margin; a jet black anal spot 



