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bushes ? Among tlie Composites, wliere are hosts of difficulties, 

 appellatives will be welcomed for Minuria, Vitiadinia, Podolepis, 

 Leptorrhynchos, and others, as also for the members of the Epacrid 

 and the orchid family. Many other queries might be put, but 

 these are perhaps sufficient to indicate where assistance is most 

 needed, and will, it is hoped, have some effect in so stimulating 

 the energies of members that quite a crop of suggestions will soon 

 be available to enable this most important work of plant naming 

 to be brought to an early completion. — C. S. Sutton, Hon. Sec. 

 Plant Names Sub-Committee. 



NEW AND RARE AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES OF 



THE GENUS MILETUS. 

 By G. a. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S., and G. Lyell, F.E.S. 

 {Read he/ore the Field Naturalists' C'luh of Victoria, SthNov., 1909.) 

 In the " Transactions of the Entomological Society of London " 

 for 1 89 1, Mr. H. H. Druce published a monograph of the then 

 known species of this beautiful genus, under the generic name 

 Hypochrysops. Since that date many new species have been 

 described, the greater number by Grose Smith in the " Rhopalocera 

 Exotica." Two new Australian species were described and the 

 others listed by one of us in the " Proceedings Linnean Society, 

 New South Wales," 1903. We have now to make known three 

 more beautiful forms, and to give a full description of the lately 

 re-discovered, strikingly handsome Milettts apollo. 



Druce {I.e.) divides the genus into three sections, with the 

 following characters and typical species : — 



Section I. — Costa of fore-wing arched : veins 2 and 3 of 



hind-wing produced to blunt tails. M. pohjdetus. 

 Section II. — Apex of fore-wing pointed ; hind-wing more 



produced at tornus than at apex. M. iynita. 

 Section III. — Costa of fore-wing arched : hind-wing more 

 produced at apex than at tornus. M. theon. 

 For the present we are allowing Miletus apollo to remain in 

 this genus, though we have no doubt it will be removed when the 

 family is again monographed ; it needs a fourth section. 



Section IV. — Costa of fore-wing almost straight ; hind-wing 



more produced at tornus than at apex, veins i and 2 



produced to blunt tails ; cell of hind-wing above (in the 



male) with long hairs. M. apollo. 



The first, third, and fourth sections are readily distinguished, 



being small and easily defined groups ; the first and third are but 



geographic modifications of a single widely-ranging form. The 



second section contains a number of widely dissimilar species, and 



may yet, for the purposes of systematic work, have to be divided 



