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Show 1875.] FROM THE NEW HEBRIDES. 615 blackish at the extremities ; secondaries with two indistinct black subanal spots ; body black : wings below pale grey ; primaries with outer margin broadly brown, diffused internally ; a spot at end of cell and an irregular transverse discal series grey, outlined with dark brown and white ; secondaries with a constricted spot at end of cell enclosed by a double series of spots grey, outlined with dark brown and white; a discal series of lunules parallel to the margin and enclosing a submarginal series of spots, the three nearest to anal angle large, black, speckled with metallic steel-coloured scales; extreme margin black, fringe brown, varied with sordid white; body grey : expanse of wings 11 lines. Mare, Loyalty group, M a y 1875. I was at first inclined to consider this the female of the preceding species ; but the outline bands of the underside do not quite agree, and there are three instead of two metallic speckled spots in secondaries; these differences, taking the different habitat into consideration seem to indicate a distinct species. 24. LAMPIDES CARISSIMA, n. sp. (Plate LXVII. figs. 4, 5.) Allied to L. candrena. S . Bright Morpho-blue, with the outer margin narrowly black ; secondaries with two linear subanal black spots; abdominal margin brown; tail black, tipped with white; body blackish grey; collar white behind the eyes ; frons with two cream-coloured lines ; palpi white below ; antennse black, annulated with white below : wings below drab, with whitish-edged bands as in L. candrena ; secondaries with two subanal black spots, speckled with pale metallic-blue scales and bordered above by orange lunules; body greyish at the sides, white below: expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines. 2 . Above paler blue, with broad blackish grey borders along the costse and outer margins; secondaries with a submarginal series of blue-edged black spots; abdominal margin brown; body grey, thorax bluish, head as in the male; underside nearly as in the male, but paler, all the markings well defined, edged with white : expanse of wings 1 inch 1^ line. Erromango, N e w Hebrides, M a y 10th, 1875. W e have this species in the collection of the British Museum from the Navigators' Islands. 25. LAMPIDES CANDRENA, Herrich-Schaffer. Tanna, N e w Hebrides, 23rd April, 1875. This and the preceding are two of the most beautiful of the small blue butterflies ; they belong to the L.-democritus group. 26. LAMPIDES EVANESCENS, n. sp. S, 2 • Allied to L. celianus, from which it differs in the slightly shorter wings and broader black border to primaries above, the more distinct marginal spots of secondaries, the greyer tint of the underside, with narrower and somewhat differently arranged transverse white bands; subanal black spots of secondaries smaller, with larger |