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Show 616 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Nov. 16, orange zone: expanse of wings, 6 1 inch 2 to 4 lines, 2 * incn to 1 inch 4 lines. Erromango, N e w Hebrides, M a y 10th, 1875. The white bands on the under surface of secondaries are not separated at such equal distances as in L. celianus. 27. LAMPIDES ARGENTINA $ , Prittwitz. Tanna, N e w Hebrides, 23rd April, 1875. A rare species, of which we previously only possessed the male. 28. LAMPIDES PERASIA d , 2 > Felder. Tanna, N e w Hebrides, 23rd April, 1875. 29. LYCANA PHCEBE, Murray. Vate or Sandwich Island, N e w Hebrides, 28th April, 1875 ; Erromango, N e w Hebrides, M a y 1875. The undescribed L. communis oi Herrich-Schaffer is this species, of which I believe his L. alsulus to be only a dark female. We obtained most of his South-Sea Lyceenidee from the Godeffroy Museum. 30. LYCEENA CADUCA, n. sp. Wings above lilac, primaries with the costa, apex, and outer margin broadly dusky ; secondaries with the costal half and outer margin dusky ; a submarginal series of blackish dots, margined internally by sordid white lunules: body grey ; antennse black, annulated with white : wings below pale grey, fringes long, tipped with grey; primaries with a spot at end of cell, a discal transverse series of six spots, and a submarginal series bounded internally by a connected series of lunules, all dusky brownish, edged with white ; secondaries with a spot at end of cell surrounded by an irregular double series of spots, and a submarginal series bounded by lunules internally, all coloured as in primaries; body below white : expanse of wings 9 to 10 lines. Erromango, N e w Hebrides, M a y 1875. This is one of the smallest of the blues ; it seems most nearly to approach the L.-knysna group. 31. SCOLITANTIDES EXCELLENS,n.sp. (Plate LXVII. figs. I, 2). Allied to S. cleotas, but differing in the male having the purple colour spread over the primaries and the centre of secondaries, in the absence of a black spot at end of discoidal cell, the black veins, and the smaller orange patch on the secondaries. cS. Above shining dull violet, veins black; primaries with the outer margin narrowly greyish black ; secondaries with the costal area grey, outer margin narrowly black, preceded on discoidal median and interno-median interspaces by a sinuated quadrifid orange patch; abdominal margin grey ; body blackish, abdomen with whitish margins to the segments; antennse black, annulated with white : eyes with a white zone ; palpi white below : wings below grey, |
