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Show 1891.] LYC.ENIDE OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 367 distinct marginal row of grey-circled lunules, largest at the anal angle ; inner margin light brown. Underside rather dark greyish brown, with indistinct bands and lunules edged with sordid white. Primaries: a band at the end of the cell and beyond that a broad band commencing on the costa, running in semicircular form to the first branch of the median nervure, where it touches the short band at the end of the cell, and then continues nearly to the submedian nervure, where it ends, beyond this a marginal and a submarginal row of faint lunules. Secondaries with three indistinct much-broken macular bands, the first near the base, second rather before the middle, and the third rather beyond, these last two converging into one near the anal margin, beyond these an indistinct submarginal row of crescent-shaped lunules enclosing a marginal row of circular lunules. A large black orange-bordered spot near the anal angle. Female similar to male, but without the gloss and of a slightly more bluish tinge and with less green on the costa. Underside as in male, but white rather more prominent. Head, thorax, abdomen, and short tail greyish brown; palpi and legs whitish. Expanse, 6 13- inch, 5 1^-ly1^ inch. Alu I., near Shortlaud I. Guadalcanar I. Florida I. This species may be distinguished from its allies by its pale coloration. There is scarcely any difference between the sexes, except that the male is metallic and the female duller blue. JAMIDES SCEMIAS, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. figs. 4 6, 5 $ .) Allied to J. woodfordii, Butl. Male. Upperside rich dark shining purple, with the apex of fore wing very narrowly black ; cilia black. Underside much as in species mentioned, but the ground-colour of the white-bordered bands generally of a darker shade than the rest of the wing, and the submarginal rows of crescent-shaped lunules large and distinct. Female. Scarcely distinguishable from that sex of J. woodfordii, but the marginal row of lunules on the hind wing larger and more distinct. Underside as in male. Expanse l^j inch. Alu I., near Shortland I. Fauro I. Florida I. N.W. Bay, Malaita I. This species can be at once distinguished from its allies by its dark purple coloration. I think that there can be no doubt that Mr. Butler's J. campanulata is a synonym of his J. woodfordii. I have before me some 36 specimens of this form from the Fiji Islands, varying in size from |- inch to 1^ inch, and having the submarginal line noted by Mr. Butler as a principal distinction varying from blue to white, and in some cases disappearing altogether. JAMIDES CEPHION, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 19.) Male. Brilliant morpho blue, with emerald-green reflexions; apex and outer margin narrowly black above, equal to that of J. scemias. Inner margin of hind wing densely black. Tail black, not tipped 25* |