Dec, 1909.J THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. m 



into several sub-sections ; in Australia these would be represented 

 by M. narcissus, If. igjiita, M. delicia, M. meleagris, M. apelles 

 M. miskini, and M. elgneri. ' 



Miletus apollo, Miskin, Annals Queensland Museum No i 

 Supplement, iSqr. ' * 



This particularly handsome species was provisionally described 

 from a very poor male specimen (Miskin supposed it to be a 

 female— both head and abdomen were missing) found by Mr R 

 E. Turner between the leaves of a book, with some other butter" 

 flies from the Herbert River, Queensland. This damaged type 

 (the remams of which are now in the Queensland Museum) was 

 the only example known till in 1907 those in our possession were 

 taken by Mr. H. Elgner. We now describe the female for the 

 first time, and give fuller and more accurate details of the male • 

 even with the good specimens now available the extremely 

 complicated pattern-scheme of the under-surface makes the descrio- 

 tion a difficult one. ^ 



il/a^e.— Fore-wing : length of costa 20 mm. ; costa nearly 

 straight; apex acute; termen and dorsum of equal length 

 straight. Hind-wing : produced to blunt teeth at veins i 2 

 and 3. ' ' 



Above.— Fore-wing : orange-red ; apical area to costa at third 

 and narrowly to tornus black. Hind-wing : orange-red • cell and 

 dorsal area between veins i and 2 covered with long hairs 

 orange-red ; dorsum narrowly cream ; cilia orange-red at veins 

 I, 2, and 3 black. ' 



Beneath.— Fore-wing : dorsal half, extending just into cell 

 pale orange; cell red, with two fl-shaped cream marks upon a 

 central black streak; apical third, extending to two-thirds of 

 termen and as a dark line only to tornus, reddish-brown ; a series 

 of irregular sub-apical interneural marks cream ; a streak along 

 upper edge of cell metallic ; a sub-terminal line of dots metallic 

 Hind-wing : apical two-fifths red-brown, shading towards costa to 

 red ; tornal three-fifths cream, with obscure markings orange • 

 costa at base red, inwardly edged black ; a small streak on costa 

 beyond base, and a spot on costa close to apex, cream • three 

 spots between cell and costa cream, basal one narrow outer one 

 larger, round, outer two edged black below; a narrow band 

 through cell, reaching middle of dorsum, scarlet; a discal band 

 from vein 6 to la at two-thirds scarlet; these two bands ed^^ed 

 black towards dorsum ; terminal band orange, with median line 

 metallic and inner line black : cream spots and scarlet bands 

 sparmgly edged metallic ; two spots in basal portion of cell two 

 in wide central portion of discal scarlet band, and one close to 

 costal cream spot at apex, metallic ; all metallic lines and spots 

 silver in some lights and pale blue or green in others • cilia 

 orange, at veins i, 2, and 3 black. 



