LYCAENINAE 
SO 
MIEETUS 
114. Miletus ignita Leach. 
I . 01 ‘cui- in this species; but they can only be deleriuined 
men n nMhe "T*"" many dilferent localities. This should not be dillicnlt of accomplish¬ 
ment nou that the hie histoiy of the southern race is known. The larvae and pupae of JL ianita innita 
ha\e been found at Ocean Grove attended by the ant Iridomyrmex nilidus, and feeding by‘flight upon 
the leaves ot Acacia pycnantha. 5 = J ^ 
M. ignita ignita Leach. Fig. 213, 214,(2^ 
Zoological Miscellany, i, p. 136^ pi. GO, fig. 1, 2, 3, 1814. 
suffused coi>pery: apex hroadiv, and tenuen, 
bioAvn. ciha gvey. Him wing- dull coiijiery purple: eosla broadly and termeii, brown:'veins 2, 3 and 
4, sometimes eopiiery: cilia grey, at veins lilack. 
Bkxeatii. Forewing dark grey-brown: coll and costa to beyond end of cell, orange: a streak along 
subcostal coalescing with bar at end of cell, outlined metallic green: traces of two spots in cell, a spot 
below middle ot cell, and a large sjiot in base of area 2, brown-black: discal band typical, orange-red 
or rco, basally edge<l black and metallic green: lermen narroM'Iy orange-red, basally edged with a row 
ol simts, black dusted metallic green. Hindwing dark grey-brown: liands typical, red, irregularlv edged 
metallic gieen; teriuen broadly red with a central line, metallic green. 
2 . Above. I'orewmg: brown: costa and ape.x; often coppery: a large central area, reaching- base anti 
clorsum, purple, soiuetinie.s tinged blue: cilia greyish. Ilindwing purjile: costa broadly brown: termen 
narrowly lirown-black: veins 2, 3 and 4, usually coppery: cilia greyish white, at veins brown-black. 
Bexeath as .in male. 
hoc. Port Macquarie 10. Sydney 1 2 3 10 11. Tllawarra 2 11. Painbida 12. Redesdale. Ocean 
Lrove 11 12. Uimboola 11 . Port Victor 1. SOcf 79?. 
Ve ha\e long sei’ies from Sydney, Pambula and Ocean Grove only, and these though all variable 
do not aiyiear to have developed geographical distinctions. jS^either can we detect differences in 
examples from Dimboola and South Australia, but our material from these localities is too scanty and 
in too poor condition to Avarrant our forming definite conclusions. A long series of bred specimens 
Irom Ocean Grove shows very considerable A'urintioii in the amount of tlie cop])ery scaling upon both 
wings abo\e. the females exhibit a marked variation in the colour of the forewiiig above: this is usually 
tinged blue, and at some angles of light the colour of the forewing appears fpiite distinct from that of 
the Ilindwing: but we have other females bred from the same batch of pupae, in which the forewing has 
no bluish tint, the pur])le colour of forewdng and Ilindwing being apparently identical. 
114b. M. ignita olliffi Miskin. Fig. 842, 843. 
Proceedings Linnean Society N. S. Wales 1888, p. 1518. 
c?. Above. Porewing dull piiriile: costa, apex broadly, and termen, brown: cilia grey-brown. Hind¬ 
wing dull jiui’iile; costa and termen, broadly brown: veins 2, 3 and 4, very rarely faintly coiipery: 
cilia grey-brown, at veins black. 
Beneath, horewing grey-lirown: cell and costa to beyond end of cell, orange-yelloAv: a streak 
along subcostal coalescing with bar at end of cell, outlined metallic gi’een: traces of Iavo spots in 
cell, a spot below mitldle of cell, and a large spot in base of area 2, brown-black: discal band typical, 
narrow, orange-red, basally lined black and metallic green; lermen narrowly orange-red, basally edged 
Avith a roAv of spots, black dusted metidlic gi-eeii. IliiulAving grey-biwn: bands typical, orange- 
led, irregularly and faintly edged metallic gi-een: termen broadly red sometimes basally edged black, 
AA'ith a central line, metallic green. 
2. Above. Forewing biwn: costa and apex often coppery: a large central area, reaching base and 
dorsum, purple, sometimes tinged blue: cilia grey-brown. IlindAving purple: costa broadly broAvn: 
termen broAvn-black; A^eins 2, 3 and 4, usually copiDery: cilia greyish, at veins brown-black. 
Beneath as in male. 
Loc. Albany. Wilson's Inlet 11 12. 15 cT 12<?. 
The localities gwen for this form by Miskin Avere KeAvcastle and Fremantle, but Ave can find no 
specimens in the Australian Museum collection labelled XeAvcastle. Specimens from that locality Avould 
be typical ignita^ so Ave propose to restrict the name ollifli to the form from the south of West 
Australia, of A\lneh we no^v haA*e a good series. It can be easily separated from ignita by the much 
narroAver and ijaler bands beneath, and the less extensAe metallic green markings. 
