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Show 1893.] THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE GENUS THYSONOTIS. 549 white band common to both wings. Underside as in male, but with the yellowish basal streak on the costal margin more prominent. Cilia of both surfaces brown. Hah. Celebes: Minahassa (Platen, Mas. Staud.); Tongubu(ilf(ts. G. Sf S.) ; S. Celebes (W. Doherty, Mas. D.). The male of this species is well figured by Herr Snellen, and the figure here given of the female is from a specimen in Dr. Staudinger's collection. Mr. W . Doherty obtained a number of this insect in S. Celebes in August and September. The white disks below are often more or less covered with light sulphur-yellow. THYSONOTIS KRUERA. Thysonotis kruera, H. Ii. Druce, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 361, pi. xxxi. ff. 16, 17. Hab. Solomon Is. So far as we know this is the only species of the group which has a blue female. The type specimens are the only ones we have seen. E. The CYANEA group)- The insects I have placed in this group may be recognized by the short linear tail to the lower median nervule of hind wings. There are several easily distinguished forms. THYSONOTIS CYANEA. (Plate XLVII. fig. 6.) Papilio cyanea, Cram. Pap. Ex. i. t. 76, C, D (1779). Papilio cyanus, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 116 (1781) ; Herbst, Pap. tab. 297. Polyomm. cyanus, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 612 (1823). Banis cyanea, Butl. B. M . Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 162 (1.869). Cupido cyanea, Semper, Mus. Godeff, Lep. xiv. p. 155 (1878). Plebeius cyanea, Bibbe, Iris, ii. p. 250 (1889) l. Cupido cyanea, Pagens. Schmett. A m b . p. 10 (1888); Oberthiir, Ann. Mus. Genova, xv. p. 524 (1880). Hah. Amboina (Boherty, Mus. B.) ; Ceram \ W e possess a number of specimens from Amboina which do not vary and which agree well with Cramer's figures and whence his type was probably obtained. The locality he gives is " Indes Occi-dentales." His figure shows two tails to the hind wings, which is of course incorrect, but it is in other respects a good one. As has been already pointed out by Herr Semper (Mus. Godef. xiv. p. 155), this form shows considerable differences from its Australian representative which has been described under the name Cupido arinia by M . C. Oberthiir: in the male by the black band on the hind wing below being very much narrower and consequently allowing a much greater extent of white, and in the female by the PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1893, No. X X X V I I . 37 |
