NEW SPECIES OF QUEEXSLANJ) LEPIDOPTERA. 



By THOS. P. LUCAS, M.R.C.S., England, 



L.S.A., LoND., L.R.C.P., Edin. 



(Head before the [ioijdl Sncietij of Queensland, 16th Dec, 1899.) 



GROUP PAPILIONINA— FAMILY LYC(ENID/E. 



LYCAENA ELABORATA. NOY. SP. 



^^ 25 — 28 ]){ v{. Head fuscous with white orbicular rings 

 round eye. Antennae black and white annulated, club black 

 with red tip. Thorax and abdomen fuscous, the former densely 

 clothed with bright lavender-blue scales. Forewings broadly 

 dilate, costa rounded, hindmargin gently rounded. In ^ bright 

 lavender-blue, with veins black, shewing conspicuously beneath 

 the blue ; in ^ bright Adonis blue in cell and along inner 

 margin, with a deep patch of black border along costa to |-, 

 then obliquely to vein 4, and at a sharp angle to form a broad 

 hindmarginal band ; the central piece of the wing which it 

 encloses is moon-light white. Cilia in both sexes, white with 

 fuscous dots opposite the veins. Hindwings in ^ as forewings ; 

 in ^ white, with central third diffused with bright Adonis blue ; 

 this is bounded on hindmargin with a diffused fuscous black 

 band enclosing a row of six white rings with a smoky-black 

 centre ; wings in both sexes finely tailed, tails fuscous tipped with 

 white. Cilia white irrorated with fuscous, more so in $. Under 

 surface of wings, in 2 light fuscous with bands of chocolate 

 colour and diffusions of reddish fuscous ; the basal third of both 

 wings is chocolate with an undulating waved white line through 

 centre transversely dividing it into two bands, and a like white 

 line on posterior border ; a patch of like colour, bordered by 



