7^ LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORV. 



wliich are brown, richly shot with violet in the male, vvhich is 

 sometimes marked with an orange spot in the middle of the 

 fore-wings. The female is brown, with an orange spot, vary- 

 ing considerably in size and shape, on the fore-wings, and a 

 reddish-orange border on the hind-wings, also visible in the 

 male towards the anal angle. The orange-red border on the 

 under side of the hind- wings is variable in breadth. 



GENUS lALMENUS. 



lalnicnws, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 75 (18 16); Hewitson, 



lllustr. Diurn. Lepid. p. 53 (1865); Schatz & Rober, 



Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 268 (1892). 



The types of this genus are Australian species, somewhat 



resembling Heliophorus, but much larger, and with spots at the 



ends of the cells. The colours are also different. 



The type is 



L\LMENUS EVAGORAS. 



Papilio evai^oras, Donovan, Ins. New Holl. i)l. 30, fig. i 



(1805). 

 lalmemis evagoras, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex. Schmett. i. figs. 175, 



176 (1818) ; Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 274, pi. 95 



(1886). 

 lal menus evagoras, Anderson and Spry, Victorian Butterflies, 



p. 97 (1894). 

 Myriiia evjgoras^ Godart, Enc. Meih. ix. p. 593, no. 3 



(1823). 



Tiiis species, which is not uncommon in Austraha, measures 

 about an inch and a half across the wings, which are of a 

 silvery-green above in the male (paler in the female), with 

 broad black borders, and a black spot at the end of the cell of 

 the fore-wings, and a bbck streak at the end of that of the 

 hind wings. Towards the anal angle of the hind-wings, near 



