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than ill the other species. KShape and neuration as in /. rvagoras. 

 Why Dr. Staudinger did not figure this species when he descriV)ed 

 it, instead of his figure of the well known /. evagoras, I cannot 

 understand. Druce's figure confirmed my opinion that /. itoitihs 

 was identical with this species. 



Loc. — Cape York, Cooktown (Macleay Mus.), Mackay (Lower) 

 (<?2, 2 1). 



Ialmenus ictinus, Hewits^on (Plate iii., fig. 19). 



111. Diurii. Lep. p. 54, t. 24, f. 6-8, 1865; And. & Spry, Vict. 

 Butt. ii. pp. 98, 99, 1894 : Austromyrina schraderi, Feld., Reise 

 I^ov. Lep. ii. p. 260, t. 32, f. 12, 13, 1865. 



(J. 16-19 mm. (17); $. 17-21 mm. (19). Outer margins brown, 

 with central areas green in (J, blue in 9. Underside varying 

 from gre}^ to light brown, black markings varying very much in 

 width in different specimens. Shape much as in /. evagoras, but 

 (J with four and ^ with three subcostals. Miskin places /. 

 illidgei, Lucas, as a synonym of this species, but as it has three 

 subcostals in ^ that is clearl}^ wrong; it is really a synonym of 

 /. dameli. 



Loc. — Victoria, New South Wales, Brisbane to Card well, 

 Q. (^11, 9 11). 



Ialmenus d^.meli, Semper. 



Mus. Godf. Lep. xiv.p.l66, 1878; Druce, P.Z.S. 1902, ii. p.l20, 

 1^1. xi. f. 10, 12 : /. illidgei, Lucas, Proc. R. Soc. Qsld. 1889, p. 156, 

 f. 1, 2. 



$. 14-18 mm. (17); 9. 15-19 mm. (17). Differs from /. ictimis^ 

 chiefly in the light brown instead of black markings of underside, 

 and ^ with three subcostals instead of four, though in one speci- 

 men the terminal portion of the subcostal bifurcates, giving an 

 extra nervule but this is given off below rather than above the 

 main subcostal nervure. Miskin considered this species (as /. 

 illidgei) to be only a variety of /. ictifius, but the difference in 

 neuration precludes this view. There is no doubt that these two 

 species are very closely allied, too closely to admit of their being 

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