260 AUSTRALIAN llllOPA I.OCKRA : /.; VCEX I D.i:, III., 



I have a specimen without any markings on the underside 

 except the two black spots near anal angle. From a careful 

 examination of Hewitson's figures, my opinion is that /. i7i02is is- 

 the female and /. icilius the male of the same species, though he 

 only figures the underside of the latter and states both to be 

 males. Druce when writing on the following species makes no 

 remark as to Miskin sinking icilius^ so I conclude that he was 

 correct in doing so {$^~'^, 9 10 \ 



Ialmenus clementi, Druce. 



P.Z.S. 1902, ii. p. 120, pi. xi. f. 9. 



Described as allied to /. inous but smaller, metallic area less 

 extensive and more brassy, and anal margin less dentate. From 

 the figure the underside appears much more conspicuously marked. 



Loc. — Touranna Plains, W.A. 



Considering the variability of /. inous, I should scarcel}' be 

 inclined to separate this as a distinct species. 



PsEUDALMEXUs, Druce. 



P.Z.S. 1902, ii. p. IIG. 



"Allied to Ialmenus, from which it differs by the costal margin 

 being depressed about the middle, not arched as in that genus, by 

 the subcostal nervule reaching the margin below apex of fore- 

 wing; cell is shorter and broader, in hindwing median nervure is 

 longer, with its branches more nearl}' equal in length, being 

 caused b}' the upper nervule being bent upwards more than in 

 Ialmenus. Palpi more robust, hairy, with terminal joint shorter. 

 Eyes smooth. Type Thecla myrsilus, Doubl." 



PsEUDALMEXUs MYRSILUS, Doublcday (Plate iii., fig. 23). 



Thecla myrsilvs, D. H. and W., Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 487, t, 75, 

 f. 3, 1852; And. & Sprj^, Vict. Butt. p. 100, 1894 : T. cMorinda, 

 Blanch., Voy. Pole Sud, p. 401, t. 3. f. 15-18, 1853. 



(J. 13-16 mm. (15). Uppers id e. — Forewing black, with a 

 central transverse band of orange divided l)y dark veins, a large 

 black spot marking end of cell. Cilia brown. Hindumig blacky 



