LYCAENINAE 
84 
PSEUDODIPSAS 
103. Pseudodipsas digglesi Hewitson. Fig. 182, 191, 435. 
Transactions Entomological Society London 1874, p. 344. 
cT. Aiiove. Eorewing silky bine strongly tinged purple: costa, apex broadly, and termen, brown-black: 
cilia brown witli tips grey, llindwing silky blue strongly tinged pur])Ie: costa, and termen na^ro^Yly 
brown-black: cilia grey. 
Beneath. Forewing greyish white: a streak at end of cell, and a series of irregular narrow diseal 
and subtei’ininal streaks, ])ale brown: a subterminal spot in ai’ea la, pale brown, llindwing greyisli 
wliite: markings typical, narrow, i^ale brown obscurely edged whitish: a subterminal series of obscure 
spots, reddish brown crowned brown: an irregular tornal line, metallic green: cilia at vein la and vein 
2 , black. 
Q, Above. Forewing jiale silky blue: costa, apex and termen, broadly brown-black: cilia grey. Hind¬ 
wing pale silky blue: costa broadly, termen, and post cellular veins, brown-black: cilia whitish. 
Beneath as in male. 
Loc. Kuranda (i. Townsville 3 4 8 11 12. IMackay 4. Brisbane. Byron Bay 3. 21 24 9. 
In general appearance this species differs considerably from all others of the genus. 
Genus MILETUS Hubner. 
Verzeichniss bekannter S cbmettorlinge, p. 71, 1816. 
Forewing with vein 11 straiglit and free from vein 12; termen only slightly shorter than dorsum, 
llindwing more or less dentate, and more produced at tornus tlian at apex. Eyes smooth. 
All the species are marked beneath with brown, orange or red spots, edged with metallic green. In 
M, liecalius vein G of the forewing rarely arises from vein 7. 
Type. Miletus polydeins Linne, from Amboina. 
Tliis genus contains a large number of species, tlie colours of which upon the undersurface 
unrivalled by any other gToup of Lycaenidae. Many species occur in Australia, but still more in Xew 
Guinea, and they are also found in the islands both east and Avest of New Guinea. Many of the species 
are rare in collections, but this is largely due to their liabits. Notwithstanding their brilliant colours 
beneath, they ai’e most inconsjYieuons xrpon the Aving, and maiw of them are extremely local, and for 
years at a time seen^ to disappear almost entirely from their usual lo:ali-ies. W e baA’e series of a majority 
of the species, but tliere are still a fcAv only poorly represented in our collections. Me have also 
seA^eral odd examples that do not entirely conform Avitb any described species: as it is more than likely 
that some at least of these arc only alxerrations, Ave have refrained from naming them. All the known 
pupae of the genus are of the usual Lycaenid type, oA'oid in section. Some of the laiwae and pupae 
(probably most of tliem) shelter Avilliin ants’ nests. 
The brightly coloured markings beneath of the l>uUerIIies of this genus all conform to a general 
pattern-scheme, tliough modified by size and shape and sometimes by coalescence. For convenience of 
description we have draAvn figure V. and described it, and the later specific descriptions are written in 
comparison Avith this typical figTire. 
Fig. V. Diagram of 
Miletus, showing 
arrangement of 
spots (enlarged). 
cf’ 2. Beneath. Forewing Avith a spot in middle of cell, and a spot below middle of cell in area la: 
a bar at end of cell and a spot beloAv end of cell in base of area 2: a diseal band from vein 10 to 
A^ein la. Hindwing crossed hy se\’en bands of A'ariable spots: first a basal streak on costa: second 
a subbasal band from A^ein S to dorsum: third a bar across cell at oiiethird, Avith a spot above and 
sometimes a spot beloAV; fourth a bar across coll at tAvothirds Avith spots below it almost or quite 
reaching dorsum: fifth a bar at end of cell Avith often a s])ot beloAV it in base of area 2: sixth a 
strongly curved diseal band from A'eiii S at costa to dorsum, Avith its costal and doi*sal spots often 
moA’ed nearer base: seventh a broad sometimes obscured terminal band. These spots and bars are 
