X.UCIINAE 
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PARALTJCIA 
In-ncr. 
Genus PARALUCIA Waterhouse & T 
Proceedings Linnean Society N. S. Wales 1904, p. 802. 
Forowino- with vein W reaching costa before end of cell: vein 11 free from vein 12: vein 10 from 
loimving \Min vein i ^ » reachino- costa just before apex: vein h from vein i beyond end 
PiSucla to blnnt looll. »t v«i,i l.Unmd. more pronounced in the m* lh„ i.H. 
female). Eyes smooth. 
Type. Parolucia pyrodiscus Rosenstoek. 
r* XI • c^r>i;inv nml Rre both very inconspicuous upon "the rag. 
IrsfSL^t^^oY^^^ of the Hesperids. Both are usually taken fiyin, 
round the flower sprays of Biirsarm 
1G2. Paralucia pyrodiscus Rosenstock. Fig.(2^^ 253. 
Annals Magazine Natural History 1885, p. 377. 
’’ Above Forewing dark brown: a broad central area, including lower half of cell and reaching 
dorsum, coppery: a small dot, nearly hidden by the dark 
brown with tips whitish. Hindwing dark broAvn: terminal half variably anc taintlj coppery, a 
series of obscure lunular suhterminal spots, dark brown: termen narrowly dark brown: cilia brown 
with tips whitish. 
Beneath. Forewing pale brown often faintly suffused purplish: two spots in cell and two beloj 
cell a S™at end of cdl, and a hand of diseal spots, pale brown narrow y edged dark brown. Hm - 
wing pale brown often faintly suffused purplish: a spot in cell, a posteellular a * 
minal, curved series of irregular spots, pale brown narrowly edged dark brown, a teimmalline,brown. 
Q. Above. Forewing as in male: termen strongly convex: coppery_ area slightly P^r .“j 
ovoid. Hindwing as in male: coppery area more pronounced, but variable: lunulai subtermm p 
larger and clearer. 
Beneath as in male hut shading to yellow-brown: edges of spots fainter. . 
Log. Gavndah. Eidsvold 11. Brisbane. Blaekbutt 11. Killarney 11. Manning K. 3 Sjdnev 1Z 
3 4 11 12. Blue Mts. 1 12. Picton 1. Castlemaine 3 11 12. Dimboola 11 . ot dJ?. 
163. 
Paralucia aurifer Blanchard. 
Voyage au Pole Sud, t. 3, fig. 
Fig.(^(^ 261 . 
13, 14, 1853. 
. Above. Forewing brown-black: a broad triangular area below cell and seldom quite reac^g 
dorsum, rich coppery: cilia brown with tips between veins whitish. Hindivmg brown-blaek: a centra, 
sometimes triangular, area below cell, rich coppery: an interrupted narrow subtermmal line, metaiue 
blue: cilia brown with tips between veins whitish. 
Beneath. Forewing pale brown, sometimes faintly suffused whitish: sometimes an ill-defined patch 
below cell, yellow-brown: two bars across cell, a spot below middle of cell, a spot at end of cell, an 
a band of discal spots, pale brown narrowly edged brown: a snbterminal and a termmal intermptw 
broad line, brown. Hindwing pale brown: a series of basal and another of subterminal spots, paie 
brown narrowly edged brown: a series of iri-egular ill-deflned discal sjmts, brown sometimes suttuse 
purplish. 
Above. Forewing as in male: termen strongly convex: a coppery area more ovoid. Hindwmg as 
iii male: coppery area irregular. 
Beneath as in male: yellow-brown patch of forewing larger and always present: discal band of 
hindwing fainter. 
Log. Blaekbutt 11. Ebor 1 12. Manning K. 3. Sydney 1 2 3 4 9 10 11 12. Hlawan-a 2 12. Blue 
Mts. 9. Pieton 1. Pambnla 12. Wandin 11. Gisborne 11 12 . Patersonia 1. Hobart 2.^ 400 'nv. 
The subterminal metallic blue line of hindwing above at once separates this species from pijrodm^- 
