270 AUSTRALIAN RIIOPALOCERA -. LYC.Ey ID.K, III., 



is well known in India and Ceylon, and occurs also in Java, but 

 it is extremely improbable if it was ever caught in Australia. I 

 am unable to find the Australian reference. Lampides macroph- 

 tkalnia, Feld., is probably meant for iV. berenice; it is recorded 

 as Australian by Butler.* Lampides hermu,^, Feld., is identical 

 with JVac. viola, Moore. Lyccena micylus, Cram., is an African 

 species, and Darris philostratns, Felder, is from the Moluccas. 



Postscript (added July 9th, 1933). While this paper has been 

 passing through the press, Mr. J. A. Kershaw, of Melbourne, sent 

 me for examination a fine insect for which I propose 



Miletus meleagris, n.sp. 



(J. 16 mm. Fore wing shaped as in AI. ignita. Hind wing 

 shaped much as in M. narcissus, with a projection to 1st median. 



Upperside rich shining purple with very narrow black 

 margins; abdominal fold blackish. Cilia white interneurally. 



Underside brown, with markings as indicated in general 

 description (p. 158), red, bordered narrowly with black, then 

 broadly with metallic green. Costa of forewing with a broad 

 metallic green splash; upper h of cell orange, two black spots in 

 lower \ of cell, and one below. Outer margins orange, with an 

 interneural series of metallic green spots, wanting at angle of 

 forewing, but at anal angle of hindwing developed into a metallic 

 green band extending nearly half way along abdominal margin. 

 Cilia whitish, faintly spotted, with two jet black spots at termina- 

 tions of submedian and 1st median of hindwing. 



Loc. — Card well, Q. Type ($) in Coll. Kershaw (^1). 



This species belongs to the ignita section of the genus, being 

 *ihaped much as in J/, epicuru^. It is immediately distinguished 

 by the rich colour and very narrow black apex of upperside, and 

 the remarkable development of metallic green on the underside. 



Mr. J. A. Kershaw has allowed me to describe this magnificent 

 species, which brings the number of Lyccenidce up to 115 species. 



* Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. j). 566, 1877. 



