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second a spot in cell at twothirds with an irregular spot or 

 spots above cell and a similar spot or spots below cell : third 

 a bar marking end of cell : fourth a discal curved band of 

 spots, from vein 8 to dorsum : fifth subterminal, narrow, waved : 

 terminal line dark brown, towards tornus inwardly edged 

 greyish : termen with a spot between vein 2 and vein 3, and 

 another nearer tornus, brown-black crowned orange. 



Female. Above. Fore wing pale bronze brown : a central 

 area, reaching subcostal, base, and dorsum to about twothirds 

 from base, bluish : a bar at end of cell, pale bronze brown : 

 termen lined dark brown : cilia grey-brown. Hindwing bluish : 

 costa and apex very broadly, pale bronze brown : termen 

 narrowly dark brown, with a narrow line from vein la to about 

 vein 5, bluish white, a spot between vein 2 and vein j, and 

 another spot nearer tornus, brown-black : cilia whitish, at veins 

 brown-black. 



Beneath as in male : bands slightly broader and darker brown. 



The markings of the undersurface are very much narrower 

 in P. cyrilus than in the smaller P. myrmecophila : the shape 

 of the hindwing readily separates the two species. P. cyrikis 

 is probably but a southern race of P. brisbanensis Miskin, 

 which is known by the type female only, taken, as the name 

 indicates, near Brisbane. One Victorian female of P. cyrilus 

 in our possession, differs very slightly indeed from the type 

 P. brisbanensis, excepting that it is smaller. 

 Explanation of Plate. 



Pseudodipsas inyrtiiecophila, n. sp. Figs. I, 2, 3, male ; 4, 5, 6, female ; 7, 8, 

 pupa. 



Pseudodipsas cyrilus. And. and Spry. Figs. 9, il, male; lO, 12, female. 



Note. — Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12, include the types, but no specimen was actually 

 labelled as type. 



Government Entomologist. — We are pleased to learn that 

 Mr. Charles French, jun., who has been acting as head of the 

 Entomological Branch of the Department of Agriculture since 

 the retirement of his father, has now been permanently 

 appointed to the position. 



"The Austral Avian Record." — The fifth number of 

 this journal (December, 1912) is to hand, with further additions 

 and alterations to the names of Australian birds. The editor, 

 Mr. Gregory M. Mathews, has abandoned his idea of lumping 

 species under fewer generic names, and proposes no less than 

 forty-nine new genera. Latin words being scarce, many of the 

 bird-lovers of the different States find themselves suddenly 

 glorified with various endings to their names, such as Harri- 

 whitea, Wilsonavis, Campbellornis, Melloria, Mattinleya, Coleia, 

 &c. The trinomial list of birds is further extended, and many 

 other alterations made. 



