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Show 1891.] LYCiENIDjE OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 369 showing through. Underside as in male, but with a large patch of orange on hind wing reaching from the submedian nervure almost to the apex. Both sexes with a short streak of silvery blue on each side of the median nervules and the submedian nervure near the margin. Expanse, 6 lf~H m c^' ? H - 1 ! m c n - Alu I., near Shorthand I. Aola, Guadalcanar I. This species is similar to L. coruscans, Moore, on the upperside, but differs in having the black margins reduced to a narrow line; the fore wing also being broader, and the hind wing more produced apically. CATOCHRYSOPS, Boisd. CATOCHRYSOPS CNEJUS, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Supp. p. 430 (1798). Alu I., near Shortland I. Guadalcanar I. Florida I. Mr. Woodford's collections contained several specimens of this wide-ranging species. CATOCHRYSOPS PLATISSA, Herrich-Schaffer, Stett. ent. Zeit. vol. xxx. p. 74, pi. iv. fig. 20 (1869), 2 • Alu I., near Shortland I. Aola, Guadalcanar I. N.W. Bay, Malaita I. Fauro I. ( ? ). Specimens from these islands agree well with several from the New Hebrides in the British Museum sent by Herrich-Schaffer under his name, and I think that both Herr Semper and Mr. de Niceville are wrong in placing it as a synonym of C. strabo, Fabr. It is greyish silvery blue, much like C. lithargyria, Moore, but darker ; and I should much prefer to say that it was the same as the latter species than the former. W e have specimens of C. strabo from N. Australia, whence the type of C. platissa is stated to have come. The male is described as pale sky-blue, and it is impossible to recognize the species from the figures given of the female. TARUCUS, Moore. T A R U C U S PLINIUS. Tarucus piinius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. vol. iii. pt. 1, p. 284 (1793). Lampides cassioides, Murray, Ent. Mo. Mag. x. p. 108 (1873). Lampidespseudocassius, Murray, Ent. M o. Mag. x. p. 126 (1873). Malaita I. Florida I. Fauro I. A large race of this variable insect seems to inhabit these islands, and the only female before me (from Malaita I.) is much clouded with brown and has very little blue on the disks. Some confusion still seems to exist as to this species and its allies : Mr. Trimen (South- African Butt. vol. ii. p. 69, 1887) places T. pulchra, Murray, as a synonym of T. telicanus, Lang, whilst Mr. de Niceville (Butt. Ind., &c. vol. iii. p. 194, 1890) places it under T. plinius, and states (p- 187) that T. telicanus, Lang, is another species, which I think will probably prove to be the case. |