BY G. A. WATERHOUSE, 701 



occurs ill New South Wales, and in Queensland as far north as 

 Kuranda. 



I propose, tiieret'ore, to restrict Hewitson's name to the species 

 with a blue male and a female with whitish underside ; this occurs 

 at Kuranda, Cooktown, and ('ape York, and its place in New- 

 South Wales is prol)ably taken by T. onycha var. atrosuffusa 

 Waterhouse. 



PsEUDALMENUs CHLORiNDA Blanchard. 



Thecla clilurinda, Voyage Pole Sud, pi- 3, tigs. l')-18, ante 1853 

 (Tasmania) : text, p. 401, 1853: Thecla myrsilus Doubleday, Gen. 

 Diurn. Lep., ii., pi. 75, fig. 3, 1852 (Van Diemen's Land). 



The figures and localities show clearly that these two names 

 represent tlie same sj^ecies, but there has been some little doubt 

 which name held the better claim to priority. The name chlorinda 

 first appears on the plates of the Voyage au Pole Sud, which were 

 published several years before the text.* It is again mentioned 

 on page 401, in the text of Vol. iv., where Thecla myrsilus is given 

 as a synonym. The name myrsilus first appears without description 

 m Doubleday's List of the Butterflies of the British Museum. It 

 is adopted in the Genera, and figured but not described, and the 

 following species listed is Thecla chlorinda Blanchard. This shows 

 that the Pole Sud figure was earUer than that in the Genera, and, 

 at that time, no description of eitlier species had been published. 

 The first description of chlorinda is given in Vol. iv., p. 401, of the 

 Pole Sud, 1853. 



It was under the name chlorinda, the species was first figured, 

 and several years later first described ; therefore, this name has pre- 

 cedence. Doubleday's List may be of earlier date, but this gave 

 nothing, except the locality, to indicate what species his myrsilus 

 represented. 



Ialmenus icilius Hewitson. 

 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye, p. 54, pi. 24, fig. 3, 1865 (Swan River) : 

 1. inous Waterhouse {nee Hew.), Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1903, p. 259 (Victoria, South Australia). 



* Voyage Pole Sud, Vol.4, p.2, 1853. 



