158 Waterhouse, Butterfly Miletus euclides, Miskin. [ 



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 Dec. 



he had reached the same conclusion, so I determined upon 

 another effort to trace M. euclides. Dr. Lucas very kindly 

 allowed me to examine his butterflies, and told me that many 

 years ago he caught two species of Miletus, one at Port Douglas 

 (North Queensland), and the other in Gippsland, and that both 

 had later been described by Miskin. Miskin gives no record, 

 neither in his papers nor in his Catalogue of the Rhopalocera of 

 Australia (i8gi), of any North Queensland species belonging to 

 this section of the genus. 



Searching the collection of Dr. Lucas, I found three rather 

 worn specimens of my M. meleagris ; none of them bore any label, 

 but in another place in the same cabinet drawer I was fortunate 

 enough to notice a loose label in what I believed to be Miskin's 

 handwriting. This label read " Hypochrysops euclides, Misk., 

 Port Douglas," and I think affords sufficient proof that Port 

 Douglas and not Gippsland was the true locality. The Gippsland 

 Miletus caught by Dr. Lucas was the male of M. hecalius, Misk. 

 Consequently my species, M. meleagris, must sink as a direct 

 synonym of M. euclides, and M. euclides must be deleted from 

 the list of Victorian butterflies. M. euclides is distinctly a North 

 Queensland species, as we now have records from Port Douglas 

 (Lucas), Cardwell (coll. Kershaw), Atherton (Bell), and Kuranda 

 (Dodd). \n the Macleay ]\Iuseum collection are specimens of 

 this or a very closely allied species from New Guinea. 



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