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Show 1892.] THE LYCJSNIDiE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. 443 are only J. woodfordi subjected to the action of damp. They are dark bluish bronze and have a very distinct appearance, and for the present I think it better to keep them separate. There are no specimens in any other collection that I have seen which are anything like them. JAMIDES KAVA, sp. n. (Plate XXVII. fig. 15.) 3 • Brilliant morpho blue; general appearance of typical J. woodfordi, but hind wing without bluish-white borders to black spots on outer margin ; colour of J. morphoides. Underside as in J. morphoides. Expanse \-r\ inch. New Hebrides (Mathew). Fiji Is. (Mathew). The type in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection and a specimen in our own from Fiji Islands are identical. This may prove to be a variety of J. morphoides, but a good series of that species from the New Hebrides does not show any variation. JAMIDES CARISSIMA. (Plate XXVII. fig. 17.) Lampides carissima, Butl. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 615, pi. Ixvii. ff. 3, 4; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xi. p. 417 (1883). 1 Acrop. ? argentina, Pritt. Stett. ent. Zeit. p. 274. no. 32 (1867). Erromango I., N e w Hebrides (Bull.). Espiritu Santo I., Pentecost I., N e w Hebrides (Woodford). New Hebrides (Mathew). Tonga Is., Fiji Is. (Mathew). Samoa Is. (B. M.). Tongatabu (' Challenger' Exped.). A good series of specimens not varying to any appreciable extent, and distinguished at once from J. woodfordi by their much darker and richer blue. Lampides ( = Jamides) phaseli, Mathew (the types of which are now in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection), from the Claremont Islands, and which we have also from N. Australia, is allied to this species, but is much more plumbeous on the upperside and on the underside the white lines appear much more distinct. Mr. Miskin, in the Annals of the Queensland Museum, no. 1, p. 59 (1891), places this species in the genus Lyccenesthes, which is certainly an error, as its hind wing possessing one tail only immediately shows. It will be observed that in the same paper Mr. Miskin places 17 species in Lampides, referred to " Hiibn., Moore, Dist., and De Niceville," but none of these authors use this name for any of the species he places under it. It is, I think, possible that the insect described by von Prittwitz may prove to be the same as Mr. Butler's J. carissima, but without examining the type I fear it is impossible to be certain. JAMIDES WALKERI, sp. n. (Plate XXVII. figs. 13, 14.) 3. Allied to J. carissima, but slightly darker blue and with the borders blacker, more distinct, even, and not widening out at the apex as in that species. Underside rather greyer and the white lines less distinct. 2 • Close to J. carissima, $, but less blue on the disks and the |