BY THOMAS V LUCAS, M.R.C.S., ENG., ETC. 



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Hind wings, hind margin rounded, tailed ; colour and 

 hind marginal line and cilia in <? as forewings ; tail black, 

 tipped with white hairs ; in ? basal portion J of wing 

 greenish blue, thence to ^ entire wing milk white ; posterior 

 half black, with a submirginal sky blue "band divided into five 

 portions by the veins. Cilia black and grey. Under surface of 

 both sexes alike ; forewings white with rich black deep costal 

 border, continuous on hind margin, widening to J inner margin, 

 and divided from neir apical angle to anal angle of hind margin 

 by a white line : hind wings, costal border narrowly white, basal 

 portion narrowly light blue ; a deep black subcostal band for 5 of 

 wing ; a snow white band on entire wing to ^ bordered posteriorly 

 by a thick black line ; posterior third light greenish blue with 

 black venations and a black dot in centres between veins ; a 

 submarginal line bordering the blue black, and a marginal line 

 white. Cilia grey, black at base. Powen, Johnson River, Cairns, 

 Port Douglas, and Cooktown 



Lyclexa Scintillata, nov. sp. 



<$ ? 24: — 26 m.m. Head brown, orbital rims white. Palpi 

 dark brown, terminal joint short. Antennae black, annul ited 

 with white. Thorax dirk brown with light bluish hairs. 

 Abdomen brown, laterally becoming white at base of segments, 

 white underneath. Forewings, costa slightly rounded, hind 

 margin obliquely rounded ; S dull purple blue, fine costal line 

 and fine hind marginal line black ; ? basal half mazarine blue 

 with broad costal border black, large central discal blotch white, 

 remainder of wing black, venations black Cilia in 6 grey, in 

 ? black and grey. Hindwings coloured as forewings, but with- 

 out the white in ? , tailed near anal angle of hind margin, 

 tail black tipped with white hairs or cilia ; hind marginal line, 

 fine, black; in <? within this line three black spots between veins 

 near anal angle, centre one conspicuous, anal one diffused ; in $ 

 there are five black spots, most conspicuous nearer anal angle, 

 and all finely outlined with white. 







