158 Watkruovse ATSiG 'LvKLh, A Neiv Butterfly. [vIi"^xxYx 



head : each segment has an irregular pinkish brown line, and 

 a series of brownish or greenish blotches. The larva is devoid 

 of hairs, except for a few along the edges of the anterior segment 

 within which the retractile head is withdrawn when resting. 

 The spiracles are small and dark brown, and the anal plate is 

 grey-brown : the dorsal honey-gland is single and rather 

 inconspicuous. The movements are much more active than 

 usual with Lycsenid larvae. 



Pupa. Small : smooth : circular in cross section : of the 

 usual Lycffinid type : golden brown, with wing cases darkening 

 to brown-black before emergence : attached by the tail and a 

 central girdle, in groups of eight or ten, to the walls of the 

 galleries of the ants' nests, or singly or in smaller groups within 

 cracks of the dead tree stumps. Near the surface of a crack 

 in one of the stumps brought from Ocean Grove was a single 

 pupa : this stump we exposed to the sun and the pupa was 

 placed close to the glass of the breeding cage : within a very 

 few minutes the ants had sheltered it from the heat and light 

 by filling the crack above it with a layer of rubbish. 



Imago. The butterflies nearly all emerged on hot sunny 

 days and always before noon. When resting on the stumps 

 with only the undersurface of the wings exposed they were 

 very inconspicuous. The ants ran about and climbed over the 

 freshly emerged butterflies without in any way disturbing them. 

 Neither sex had any definite precedence in emergence. 



PSEUDODIPSAS MYRMECOPHILA, n. Sp. 



Expanse (centre of thorax to apex of forewing). Male, 

 TI-12 mm. Female, 12-14 mm. 



Forewing with costa shghtly arched : apex rounded : termen 

 slightly rounded in the male and rounded in the female. Hind- 

 wing with termen evenly rounded. 



Male. Above. Forewing dark bronze brown : termen lined 

 brown-black : cilia grey-brown. Hindwing dark bronze brown : 

 base shading to brown-black : termen narrowly brown-black, 

 with a narrow interrupted line, broader towards tornus, bright 

 blue, and an obscure spot between vein 2 and vein 3, and a 

 very obscure spot nearer tornus, brown-black : cilia whitish, 

 at veins brown-black. 



Beneath. Forewing grey-brown, markings pale brown 

 edged brown-black and then whitish : first band across cell at 

 onethird : second across cell at twothirds and often continued 

 below cell : third marking end of cell : fourth, discal, broad, 

 irregular, from vein 10 to vein i : fifth, brown, subtcrminal, 

 narrow, interrupted, from vein 7 to vein i ; terminal line 

 brown-black inwardly edged whitish. Hindwing grey-brown, 

 markings ])ale brown edged brown-black and then whitish : 

 first a spot in cell at onethird with a smaller spot above and 



