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Show 546 MESSRS. H. H. DRUCE AND G. T. BETHUNE-BAKER ON [June 20, so far as is at present known, one exception, T. kruera, which has blue female. A slight difference occurs in the venation of the fore wing, the fourth subcostal nervule terminating just before the apex, not at the apex as in the danis group. THYSONOTIS TAYGETUS. (Plate XLVII. figs. 5, 5 a, 5 b.) Lyccena taygetus, Felder, Eeise Nov., Lep. ii. p. 266, t. 33. ff. 19- 21 (1865). Cupido taygetus, Kirby, Cat. Diur. Lep. p. 347 (1871) ; Semper, Mus. Godef.', Lep. xiv. p. 155 (1878). Banis taygetus, Miskin, Ann. Queensl. Mus.no. 1, p. 50 (1891). Banis salamandri, Macleay, P. Ent. Soc. N . S. W . p. 54 (1866). Hab. Somerset, C. York ; Eockhampton; C. Bowen ; Cooktown; Port Denison ; Moreton Bay ; Brisbane ; Sydney. Fiji Is. (Felder). This is a common insect in Queensland and is well known to vary considerably-some males having the hind wdngs almost entirely blue and some females being entirely without the metallic blue scales near the anal angle of the hind wings. B. salamandri, Macleay, as has already been pointed out by Mr. Miskin and others, undoubtedly equals this species. Macleay writes :-" This beautiful little species is scarcely half the size of B. sebce, and may be readily distinguished from it by its scarcely having any black on the upper surface, while on the lower there is a distinct gap between the black anterior and exterior margins of the upper wings. Cape York. Presented to the Museum by Mr. Moore of H.M.S. < Salamander.'" Dr. Felder has recorded this species from the Fiji Is., but amongst the large numbers of Lycanidae. we have examined from those islands we have not seen a single specimen and are inclined to think it is incorrect. Genitalia. Clasps unusually broad, reminding somewhat of a flitch of bacon with the top extremity produced upwards into a hooked tip, the apex of which is pointed and has three distinct teeth ; fork short, stout, with the division very short indeed. Tegumen : arms broadly developed, the saddle-hood reduced into insignificance,with books short and stout and terminating in a sharp curved point. Penis very large and stout, though not long, somewhat barrel-shaped and flatter on the lower margin, end joint or tip with the lower portion produced into a long sharp spout (as of a jug) and without the hinged cover. (Plate XLVII. figs. 5, 5 a.) THYSONOTIS MACLEAYI. Banis macleayi, Semper, Mus. Godef., Lep. xiv. p. 155 (1878)1 ; Miskin, Ann. Queensl. Mus. no. 1, p. 51 (1891). Hab. C. York1 ; Somerset, C. York (PAlbertis) (Mus. G. Sf S.). Herr Semper describes this as differing slightly (from taygetus) in the spotted fringes, also in the female by a projecting tooth in the white disk in the fore wing and the very indistinct blue dust |