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Show 548 MESSRS. H. H. DRUCE AND G. T. BETHUNE-BAKER ON [June 20, margin of hind wings inwardly more evenly defined and the marginal blue lunules much less distinct; a broken metallic blue line running along the black outer marginal border of fore wing from apex to outer angle. Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish brown. Antennae black above, white-spotted beneath. Expanse 1\ inch. Hab. New' Ireland (Brown) (Mus. G.6/S.). The type specimen in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection is the only one we have seen. It is distinguished from all others by the blue line on underside of fore wing. THYSONOTIS COSLIUS. Thysonotis ccelius, Feld. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 245 (1860) \ Lyccena ccelius, Feld. Eeise Nov., Lep. ii. p. 265, t. 33. ff. 11,12 (1865). Cupido ccelius, Kirby, Cat. Diur. Lep. p. 347 (1S71) ; Oberthiir. Ann. Mus. Genova, xv. p. 523 (1880)2; Kirsch, Beitr. Lep.-Faun. von Neu-Guinea, p. 127 (1877). Hab. Aru Is.1; Dorey; Port Moresby, N e w Guinea; Sula Is. (Wallace) (Mus. G. 6c S.); Gilolo2; Mysol (B. M.); Kaiser Wil-helm's Land, N e w Guinea (Eichorn) (Mus. Staud.). W e have not seen the female of this species, but specimens have been received by M . Oberthiir from Gilolo. THYSONOTIS EUDOCIA, sp. n. (Plate XLVI. fig. 4.) d . Allied to T. ccelius. Upperside duller blue; fore wing with the outer margin rather more broadly bordered with brown; hind wing with the costal margin greyish brown, not white as in T. ccelius. The border to the outer margin and anal angle twice as broad. Underside with all the borders, especially that on the costa of fore wing, considerably broader and the blue metallic streaks and lunules very much decreased. A distinct light yellow streak stretching along the costal nervure at the base of the fore wing. Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs as in T. ccelius. Antennae black above, spotted with white below. Cilia of both surfaces brown. Expanse 1-j^j-If inch. Hab. Batchian (Wallace, Mus. G. 6c S.) ; (Platen, Mus. Staudinger) ; (Boherty, Mus. Bruce, type). Although there is before us a good series of this species there is not a single female amongst them. W e have compared it to T. ccelius, but it is perhaps nearer to the next species, T. piepersii, Sn., as possessing the yellow basal streak on underside of fore wing. Its position is intermediate between the two. THYSONOTIS PIEPERSII. (Plate XLVI. fig. 9.) . Cupido piepersii, Snellen, Tijds. Entom. xxi. p. 16, pi. 1. f. 3 (1878). 5 . Upperside dull blackish brown, with an indistinctly defined |
