716 NOTES FROM TME AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, 



NOTES FEOM THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



A New Butterfly of the family LYCiENio^ from the Blue 

 Mountains. 



By a. Sidney Olliff, F.E.S., 



Assistant Zoologist, Australian Museum. 



The very distinct species described below was taken by myself 

 during the second week in September, at Katoomba, on the Blue 

 Mountains, at an elevation of 3,350 feet above the sea level. 

 Among other butterflies found at the same time, I may mentoin 

 Xenica hobariia, Westw., as, 1 believe, it has not previously been 

 recorded from New South "Wales. Mr. Meyrick has taken this 

 species at Fernshaw, Victoria, in December. 



ClIRTSOPIIANUS cyprotus, sp. n. 



^ Dull coppery fulvous, with purple reflections ; the apical third 

 of the costa and the hind-margins narrowly bordered with dark 

 fuscous. Forewing with a broad bright purple median fascia-like 

 spot, extending from vein 1-7, narrowed at both extremities, the 

 posterior margin produced into acute teeth along the veins ; both 

 wings purple at the base, hindwing more broadly. Underside 

 ashy grey. Forewing with a very small black double dot at the 

 end of the discoidal cell, and two transverse series of five or six 

 crescentic dots near and parallel to the hind-margin. Hindwing 

 with the following black dots — a series of four near the base, one 

 near the base of the subcostal nervui-e, two transverse parallel 

 series, one just behind the cell, the other half way between the cell 

 and the hind margin, a similar and less distinct series nearer the 

 hind-margin. Cilia grey, with obscure blackish dots on the veins. 

 Exp. 36 mm. 



