138 NEW SPKOIES OF QUEENSLAND LEPIDOPTERA. 



white, just beyond, reaching half-way across wing, and a broad 

 band at f , are both bordered on both sides with white ; a sub- 

 terminal row of lunulated spots, diffused in white to hind- 

 margin ; hindmarginal line chocolate. In the hindwings the 

 middle band is broken into rhomboidal columns, arranged 

 promiscuously, to enclose a blotch of ground colour ; the 

 hindmarginal white sufi'usion borders an undulating continuous 

 subterminal chocolate line and marginal line with dots on veins ; 

 two peacock eyes of blue and silver at and just before anal 

 angle. In the $ the white patch is conspicuous in middle 

 third ; the basal chocolate is divided into three bands and the 

 posterior again into two by white lines ; there are two rows of 

 lunulated spots in the white bordering ; the marks on the 

 hindwings are more spread out and regular than in the 5 . 

 Brisbane, one pair. 



FAMILY HESPERID.E. 



ISMENE LUCESCENS. NOV. SP. 



^ ^ 40 — 45 npn.- Head green, interspersed with 

 fuscous, face ochreous. Palpi black, tmged with ochreous. 

 Antennae deep chocolate fuscous. Thorax and abdomen deep 

 chocolate fuscous, interspersed with long green hairs ; anal 

 third of abdomen devoid of hairs, but tinged with irridescent 

 violet. Forewings broadly triangular, costa gently rounded, 

 hindmargin almost straight, deep chocolate, fuscous, clouded 

 with diti'usion of black, and with long greenish hairs over base. 

 Forewings in ^ with two prominent white dots near together in 

 the disc. Cilia deep chocolate fuscous, finely edged wish 

 ochreous. Hindwings as forewings, but inner margin, and 

 basal half densely covered with glaucous or glaucous-ochreous 

 hairs. Cilia as forewings. Undersurface of forewings fuscous 

 with effusion of black in middle towards base ; white discal dots 

 in J conspicuous. Hindwings, colour as forewings, but 

 with lilac eli'usion, a lilac white line, broadly difi'used, extends 

 from near apex of costa to a rich velvety black blotch, tilling anal 

 angle, resembling a silvery brook falling into a dark lake or 

 reservoir ; a lunular ochreous line from base, parallel to and 

 cutting oft" a portion of ground colour of hindmargin, is more or 

 less dift'used with white ; these two lines form a large W, in a 

 view of the two wings ; a hindmarginal ochreous line extends 

 from the anal black blotch or reservoir to near apex. Cairns. 



