LYCMNID^. 



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5. A. Wildei, u. sp. 



(? Uppeeside. — Light, slightly lilacine, blue ; outer borders of both 

 ♦ wings somewhat narrowly, but distinctly, margined with black ; 



costal borders of primaries suffused with black ; abdominal border 

 of secondaries light brown. 



Underside. — Silvery white, with light greyish brown borders, short 

 bands and spots. Primaries : Costa bordered somewhat narrowly ; 

 outer border the .same, with darker spots in it ; a sub-basal spot, a 

 larger central one, and an elongate one beyond, all within cell ; a 

 sub-apical diagonal band of four spots ; two round spots, one above 

 the other, towards hinder angle, well in from outer border ; most of 

 the spots showing a ring of white by reason of a slight greyish area 

 surrounding them. ^Secondaries : The spots rather less pronounced 

 than in primaries ; some brown suffusion at base ; a sub-basal row of 

 three spots ; two larger beyond, the upper and largest almost 

 touching costa ; a circular row just beyond the last from costa to 

 abdominal margin, rather indistinct ; another circular row from near 

 apex, where it commences with a long (iblong patch, the size of the 

 spots gradually decreasing, some little distance from and continuing 

 nearly parallel with outer border to some distance up abdominal 

 margin ; outer margin inci-easing in width as it apjiroaches anal 

 angle, and then narrowing off again to about halfway ti]) abdominal 

 margin is bordered with light grey-brown, but not sharply defined ; 

 inside this border a sub-marginal line of crescent-shaped marks ; a 

 round black spot at anal angle ; above this a white sub-marginal line 

 extending some little distance up abdominal margin. 



9 Upperside. — Primaries : Base, costal and outer margins widely 

 black ; hind margin narrowly black ; rest of wing white ; base 

 slightly suffused with blue. Secondaries : Base black, slightly 

 suffused with blue, costa narrowly black ; outer margin black, widest 

 at anal angle, the black extending into the wing along the veins ; rest 

 of wing white. 



Underside. — As in ^. 



Thorax and abdomen, both sexes, above black, beneatJi light grev. 



Ex. : <? 40 mm. ; ? 38 mm. 



Hab. : Cairns. Coll. : Queensland Museum. 



This remarkably characteristic species is represented by a single specimen 

 of each sex, recently captured by the Museum collector (Air. Wilde) at 

 Cairns, both in a rather worn and broken condition. That such a 

 conspicuously distinct insect as this should have been hitherto 

 unknown shows how much has yet to be done before a thorough 

 knowledge of our Rhopalocerous fauna has been achieved. 



G-enus 17, OGYSIS, Westiv. 

 Gen. D. L. ii. p. 472 (1850-2). 



1. O. Genoveva, Sew., ? Ex. Butt. i. Og. t. 1, 

 f. 5, 6 (1853) ; Kirh., Cat. D. L. p. 423 

 (1S71) ; Mislc, Trans. E. Soc. p. 343, 

 t. 15 (1883) ; Stand., Ex. Schmett. t. 96 

 (1888) ; Misk., Proc. L. Soc. X.S.W. 

 ser. 2, V. p. 23 (1890). 



c? 0. ZoziNE, Hew., Ex. Butt. i. Og. 1. 1, f. 3, 

 4 (1853) ; Cat. Ljc. B. M. t. 1, f. 7 

 (L8G2). 



S O. Damo, DohU., Brit. M. list. 



*2. O. Otanes, Feld., Eeise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 217, 



n. 234, t. 28, f. 1-3 (1865) ; Kirb., Cat. 



D. L. p. 425 (1S71) ; Tep., Trans. E. 



Soc. S.A. iv. p. 31, t. 2, f. 1 (1882); 



Brisbane, 

 E'khampt'n 



S. Australia. 



