LYCAENINAE 
93 
THYSONOTIS 
BEXEATir. Forewin^ black: a broad subcostal streak to beyond end of cell, metallic grreen: a broad 
central area, reaching dorsum and continued from its apex as a subterminal band to vein 9, white, 
rlindwing white: base black, at costa white edged metallic gi'een: termen broadly black, with a band 
of rings, metallic green, and an interrupted faint terminal line, white. 
$. Above. Foiewing black: base broadly metallic green: a broad central area, reaching* dorsum, white: 
cilia black. Hindwing white: base metallic green; termen broadly black, with inner edge towards 
dorsum dusted metallic green: cilia black. 
Bexe.vtii: as in male. 
Ta)('. 'l\rackay 12 3 4 o S 9. Brisbane 1 2 3 4 5 0 7 11. Bvron Bav 3. Bichmond R. 1 2 3 4 5. Hannins: 
R. 3. 499 . ■ * ^ 
119b. T. hymetus taletum nov. Fig. 159. 
rf’. Above. Forewing deep blue: costa nanwly and termen, lined black: cilia black. Hindwing deep 
blue; termen black: cilia black. 
Bexeatii. Forewing black: a broad subcostal streak to beyond end of cell, metallic green: a 
broad central area, reaching dorsum, and continued from its apex as a subterminal band to vein 9, 
white. Plindwing white: base black, at costa white edged metallic green: termen broadly black, with 
a band of ring's, metallic green, and a faint interrupted terminal line, white, 
9 , Above. Forewing black: base dusted metallic blue: a central area, reaching dorsum, Avhite: cilia 
black. Hindwing white: base metallic blue: termen broadly black: cilia black. 
Bexeath as in male. 
Loo. Cairns C 7 10. Kuranda 1 2 3 4 (> 7 10 II 12. Ingham 9. 23 cT 17?. 
It is only very rarely that male examples have traces of a white central area on hindwing above. 
119c. T. hymetus salamandri IVtacleay. 
Proceedings Entomological Society N. S. Wales 1866, p. liv. 
(?. Above. Forewiug deep blue: costa narrowly, and termen, lined black: cilia white, at veins black. 
Hindwing deep blue: termen black: a variable central area, usually obscure, rarely reaching dorsum, 
white: cilia white, at veins black. 
Bexeath. Forewing black: a broad subcostal streak to beyond end of cell, metallic green: a 
broad central area, reaching dorsum and sometimes continued from its apex as a narrow subterminal 
band to vein 9, white. Hindwing white: base black, at costa edged metallic green: termen broadly 
black with a band of rings, metallic green, and a faint interrupted terminal line, white. 
5 . Above. Forewing black: base-dusted metallic blue: a central area, reacliing dorsum, white: cilia 
white, at veins black. Hindwing white: base metallic blue: termen broadly l)lack: cilia white, at veins 
])lack. 
Beneath as in male. 
TjOC. Cape York 1 2 3 4 5 (J 10 11. Thursday Is. 1 3 4 5. Prince of Wales Ts. 5 0 7. Banks Is. 2 3. 
Claudie R. 1. 5441 Q . 
Male examples from Banks Island often have the termen of both wings above more broadly black, 
and rarely have the white central area of hindwing absent: the black termen of tlie hindwing beneath 
is much narrower, and the white area of forewing beneath is only rarely continued to vein 9. 
120. Thysonotis cyanea Cramer. (Amboina). 
The butterflies of this group are the only ones of the genus with tails. 
120a. T. cyanea arinia Obeilhur. Fig. 154, 155, ^5^ 
Annals ^ruseum Geneva xii. p. 4Go, 1878. 
Above. Forewing dull blue: costa narrowly and termen, lined black: an obscure central streak, 
wliitish: cilia black. Hindwing dull blue: costa whitish: termen black: tail to vein 2, black with tip 
wliite; cilia black. 
Bexeath. Forewing white: costa and apex broadly, and termen narrowly, black: an iireguiar 
sublornal ai’ea, black: an inteiTiipted terminal line, wliite. Hindwing white: base black, at costa white 
dusted metallic green: termen very broadly black, with a band of elongate ring's, metallic green, and 
an interrupted terminal line, white. 
