BY G. A. WATERHOUSE. 699 



Candalides simplexa Tepper. 



Cupiclo simplexa, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1882, p. 30, t.2. Fig. 

 10 (Monarto, S. Aust.) : PohjummahiH cyanUes Meyrick, l'ri)c. 

 Linn. Soc. N- S. Wales, 1887, p. 828(aeraldtoH, W.A.). 



This is the race of C. hyacinthina which occurs in north-western 

 Victoria and in Soutli Australia, as well as in West Australia. I 

 have not been able to compare Geraldton examples with those from 

 South Australia, but there is nothing in Meyrick's description to 

 point to any distinctions. C. hyacinthina is confined to Eastern 

 Australia. 



Philiris Rober. 



Tijd. voor Ent., 1891, p. 317(type ilias Felder). 



The genus is considered, by Mr. Bethune Baker,* to be insui.i- 

 eiently differentiated from Candalides Hubner(type xanthospilos) . 

 In addition to a well-marked facies of the imagines, the pupjE 

 supply good characters by which the two genera can be readily dis- 

 tinguished. The pupa of P. innotatus Miskin, is covered with 

 short fine hairs, the head is smooth, and the cross-section of the 

 abdomen (as usual with Lycaenid pupae) is ovoid. The pupa of C. 

 absimilis, of C. yilberti, of C. heathi, and of C. hyacinthina {tha.t of 

 C. xanthospilos is not yet known) is much flattened, the abdomen 

 being produced to lateral ridges, and the liead has two flattened 

 processes. These marked pupal differences, with the shape of the 

 imagines, are quite sufficient to substantiate the genus. 



PsKUbODlPSAS CKPHKNES HewitSOD. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Loudon, 1874, p. 344 (India, loc. err.) : id., 111. 

 Diurn. Lep. Lye, p. 219, PI. 89, fig. 3, 4, 1878 (India, loc. err.) ; 

 Ps. fumidus Miskin, Proc. Roy. Soc. Qsld., 1889, p. 264 (Brisbane). 



Hewitson received his specimen from W. E. Atkinson, to whom 

 Miskin sent many Queensland butterflies. This type is the only 

 specimen recorded from India, and, in the British Museum collec- 

 tion, an example of Ps. fumidus from Queensland is placed with it. 

 No points of difference can be detected, and Hewitson's figure so 



* Novitates Zoologicse, 1904, p.369. 



