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which are brown, richly shot with violet in the male, which is 

 sometimes marked with an orange spot in the middle of the 

 fore-wings. The female is brown, with an orange spot, vary- 

 ing considerably in size and shape, on the fore-wings, and a 

 reddish-orange border on the hind-wings, also visible in the 

 male towards the anal angle. The orange-red border on the 

 under side of the hind-wings is variable in breadth. 



GENUS IALMENUS. 



lalf/ienus, Hiibner,Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 75 (1816); Hewitson, 

 Illustr. Diurn. Lepid. p. 53 (1865); Schatz & Rober, 

 Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 268 (1892). 



The types of this genus are Australian species, somewhat 

 resembling Heliophorus, but much larger, and with spots at the 

 ends of the cells. The colours are also different. 



The type is 



IALMENUS EVAGORAS. 



Papilio evagoras, Donovan, Ins. New PI oil. pi. 30, fig. i 



(1805). 

 lalmenus evagoras, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex. Schmett. i. figs. 175, 



176 (1818); Staudingcr, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 274, pi. 95 



(1886). 

 lalmenus evagoras, Anderson and Spry, Victorian Butterflies, 



p. 97 (1894). 

 Myrina evagoras, Godart, Enc. Meih. ix. p. 593, no. 3 



(1823). 



This species, which is riot uncommon in Australia, measures 

 about an inch and a half across the wings, which are of a 

 silvery-green above in the male (paler in the female), with 

 broad black borders, and a black spot at the end of the cell of 

 the fore-wings, and a black streak at the end of that of the 

 hind-wings. Towards the anal angle of the hind-wings, near 



