LUCIINAE 
113 
PSEUDALMENUS 
Genus PSEUDALMENUS Druce. 
Proceedings Zoological Society London 1902, ii, p. 116. 
Foiwing with vein 12 reacliin 
from subcostal well before end of 
g costa just beyond end of cell; vein 11 free from vein 12; vein 10 
cell; vein 7 reacliing termen just beyond apex; vein 6 from vein 7 
Fig, W. Wing venation of 
Pseudahncnus zephyrus 
(enlarged). 
well beyond end of cell. Hindwing with a well developed 
2. Lyes smooth. 
anal lobe, and with a filamentous tail to vein 
Type. Psendalmenus clilorinda Blanchard. 
r''’ Lycaenid, in wliicli vein 7 of forewing- reaches termen, is the aberrant 
1 1 1 1 M Pseudahnenus are flattened and rugged, and the pupae are short and 
stout and attached by the tad and a central silken girdle. They shelter together in crevices of the trunk 
ot the toodtree {Acacia melanoxijlon), and ai-e always attended by a small black ant 
164. Pseudalmenus chlorinda Blanchard. 
This interesting species has developed local races, which chiefly differ in an increase of the orange 
ciiscal band above in northern localities, and an increase of the width of the black bands beneath in 
southern localities. 
164a. P. chlorinda chlorinda Blanchard. Fig, 863, 864. 
Voyage au Pole Sud, pi. 3, fig. 15, 16, 17, 18, ante 1853. 
o'. Above. Borewing brown-black; a broad bar at end of cell, dull lilack; rarely faint orange scales 
m bases of areas 2^ 3j 4 and 5: cilia brown with tips whitish. Hindwing brown-black; rarely a small 
irregular patcli beyond cell, orange: a narrow subterminal band from vein 5 to dorsum, red; tail brown- 
black: cilia whitish. 
Beneath. Forewing stone grey: a broad bar at end of cell, black: a broad discal line from vein 11 
to vein la, black: a terminal line, black. Hindwing stone gi’ey: a bar at end of cell, extending to 
^ein 8,-black: usually a discal band from vein la to vein S, black: a narrow irregular subterminal 
band, red, outwardly edged black (broader tow’ards aiiex) : two spots near tornus, and a terminal line 
diminishing to vein 6, black. 
ABm-E. Forewing brown-black: a broad discal band from vein 10 to vein la, orange, rarely just 
enclosing a broad bar at end of cell, black: cilia broAvn-black with tips whitish. Hindwing as ii/niale: 
subterminal red band broader. 
Beneath as in male. 
Loc. Launceston 10 12. Hobart. OcT 2 Q. 
The majority of the males from Tasmania agree with the figures of chlorinda in the almost total 
absence of discal orange band above, and the females agree in the orange band of forewing not surround- 
Ihe black bar at end of cell. 
