118 



spot, sometimes absent, on hindwings between veins 2 and 3 ; 

 not in male ; cilia as above. 



Somewhat allied to Colaca, Moore, but differs, according to 

 Elwes and Edwards (Rev. Or. Hesp., p. 171, 1897), from that 

 species by the absence of spots on hindwings above, although we 

 possess a female specimen from Palmerston, South Australia, in 

 which 2 yellowish sub-median spots are well developed, other- 

 wise similar. 



Mr. Miskin gives Hesperilla julianus, Latr., Enc. Meth., ix., 

 p. 763, n. 99, 1819, as a synonym. 



The larvae are said to be attached to Ischcemum pretinctum. 



This is probably the most widely distributed species we have 

 in Australia; occurring also in India, Ceylon, Japan, Borneo, 

 China, and Malayana, also Brisbane, Mackay, and Townsville, 

 up to Cape York in Queensland ; Palmerston, Nort,hern Terri- 

 tory, South Australia; from October to February. 



70. Erynnis CiESiNA, Hew. 



{Carystus cmsina, Hew., T.E.S. (3), ii., 491, n. 15, 1866; Ex. 

 3utt., v., Hesp., t. 6, fig. 15, 1866 ; Pamphila alhifascia, Misk., 

 Proc. Roy. Soc, Queensland, p. 148, 1889.) 



Male, 26 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen blackish, 

 thorax and abdomen clothed with greyish hairs, palpi whitish 

 white. Legs dark fuscous, coxae more or less clothed with 

 beneath. Antennae black, club beneath, except apex snow 

 white. Legs dark fuscous, coxae more or less clothed with 

 white hairs. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa gently 

 arched, termen bowed on upper half, thence nearly straight, 

 oblique; dark fuscous, s(pot with bluish purple; markings 

 white ; a small subcostal spot at two-thirds from base, indicat- 

 ing lower of subcostal series; a somewhat quadrate spot just 

 below, resting on vein 4 ; a cuneiform spot lying at base of 

 veins 3 and 4 ; a large, somewhat quadrate spot, obliquely 

 below; a roundish spot immediately below this, sometimes 

 accompanied by a suffused whitish spo't below, almost coales^ 

 cing ; cilia blackish, basal half black. Hindwings with termen 

 irregularly rounded; color as in forewings; basal area light 

 fuscous ; an oblique transverse band of snow-white just beyond 

 extremity of cell, edges irregular, anteriorly narrowed and suf- 

 fused, posterior extremity suffused, hardly reaching vein 7 ; 

 cilia as in forewings. Wings beneath dark reddish, mixed 

 with purplish ; basal third of forewings and along inner 

 margin fuscous; markings of upper side of forewings repro- 

 •duced, and with an additional spot just belowi subcostal. Hind- 



