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costa, f:;niJnally tapsring posteriorly ; two submargiual lunulas lines. 

 Hlndw'mg orossad by tinea highly irregular bands ; two subniargintil 

 l'.n9S more de3ply lunular than lathe fore wing ; the usual round black 

 spot in the iirat median interspace crowned narrowly with dark orange ; 

 a fine black anteciliary thread, defined with an equally fine white line 

 on either side. Female. Ui'PERSIDe, hoih icings pale duU fuscous. 

 Forewhig with the discoidal cell and the basal half of «he wing posterior 

 to th') coll dull blue ; an oval discal white patch, inwardly bounded by 

 th'i disco-cellular nervules, anteriorly by the lower discoidal nervale, 

 posteriorly almost reaching tlie sulmiedian nervure. Hindaung with 

 streaks of dull blue between the veins not nearly reaching the margin, 

 the outer end of each blue streak excavated and whitish ; the margin 

 bears a highly lunular pale bkie line, enclosing outwardly a series of 

 spots of tbe ground-colour, except the one in the first median interspace, 

 which is deep black ; a fine anteciliary blnck thread, defined on Ijoth 

 sides by an equally fine white thread ; the c'dla devolojied into three 

 short tooth-like tails from tlie terminations of the median nervules. 

 Underside, forewhig with the white patch smaller than above, the 

 discal band more prominent than in the niaie. Otherwise as in 

 the male. 



The male of this species is very .similar to that sex of L. emolus, 

 Godart, from the Ke Isles, differing, however, in its larger size, distinctly 

 narrower (less broad) hindwing, with no submargiual black spots on the 

 upperside ; in L. enwlm from Ke there are three or four. On the 

 underside of the forewing the discal band is continuous, evenly curved 

 and evenly tapering, in L. emolus it is very irregular, of the same width 

 throughout, its two lowest portions placed in echelon. The female is, as 

 far as I am aware, unique in the genus, being the only one with a large 

 white patch in the middle of the forewing. 



Described and figured from a male and two females received from 

 Herr Heinrich Kiihn from the Ke Isles. I have also received a pair of 

 specimens from Mr. Rowland E. Turner from Mackay in Northern 

 Australia, with which the examples described above entirely agree. L. 

 turnei'i was originally described from Cape York, Cardwell and Mackay, 

 all in tropical North Australia. Mr, W. H. Miskin described the 

 female only, but called it the male. The descrif»tion of the male of 

 L. tasntcmlcusj Miskin (I.e., p. 401 agrees fairly well with tho male 



