Eastern and Australian Lepidojdera. 615 



and his description fits my examples very well, considering 

 the usual sexual differences in this family. 



In his Monograph of the Hesperiidai in Wytsman^s 

 * Genera Insectorum,' fasc. 17*^, p. 132 (190i), by some 

 extraordinary error, Mabille puts his species under Godman 

 and Salvin's genus Halotis, with Costa Rica as its locality. 

 In the ' Biologia/ Insecta, Lep.-Rhop. ii p. 505, pi, xcv. 

 flp. 42, 43, 44, c? (1900), a Hesperiid from Costa Rica is 

 described and figured as the type of the genus Halotis; but 

 neither the description nor the figures represent the Queens- 

 land insect. One of the ' Biologia ^ examples, it is said, 

 is labelled as having been compared by Salvin with the type 

 of HesjJeria saxula, Mab., a description of which could not 

 be found ; this must refer to some Hesperiid from Costa 

 Rica so named by Mabille, which never was described and 

 published ; it can have no reference to the Cooktowu insect. 



Mimas melie. 



MimaR vielie, de Nic6. Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. ix. p. 394, pi. Q. 

 f. 65, $ (1895). 



cJ . Both wings and cilia dark brown with an ochreous 

 tinge : fore wings with obscure ochreous streaks from the 

 base in the interspaces, the two lowest extending to the 

 discal dull ochreous oblique band, which is composed of 

 three spots, the lowest the largest : hind wings with the 

 inner portion of the wing smeared with dull ochreous, 

 extending on the abdominal margin from the base to one 

 third from the anal angle, narrowing inwards to a large 

 square ochreous spot in the upper disk. Underside rich 

 purplish brown, markings pale ochreous yellow, a large spot 

 at the end of the cell, a large space commencing with the 

 uppermost spot of the discal band, widening hindwards and 

 extending on the hinder margin from the middle of the 

 wing to the hinder angle, a duplex subapical spot in a 

 line with the inner margin of the band, and four linear 

 subcostal spots close together, a little on the inner side 

 of the wing : hind wings with two large spots — one below 

 the origin of vein 2, and the other towards the outer margiu 

 in the interspace above vein 4 : palpi, head, and body with 

 ochreous hairs ; legs dull ochreous gi'ey. 



Expanse of wings 1 /,)-!,",, inch. 



Humboldt Bay, N. (iuinea; two examples. 



The female, as described a,nd figured by de Niceville, has no 

 band on the fore wings, but the peculiarly marked underside 

 is identical ; vein 5 of the hind wings is also absent, and the 



