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H. hamo Lucas in Sagra. 



I identify this with Jiamio Hb. (nee. Stoll), which equals 

 ccraitnus Fab., and will be referred to later. 



H. astenidia Bdv. ms. (recte astci/idas), Lucas in Sagra. 



Through the kindness of my good friend. M. Ch. Ober- 

 tb.iir, I have the female type of this species before me, as I also 

 had of pseudoptiletes; the 2 type is without any question 

 Cliiladcs trochilns, a well-known Mediterranean and Eastern 

 insect. That fact, however, does not affect the name of the 

 male, as its description came first. I have been unable to 

 trace Boisduval's description, and I understand that it was first 

 described by Lucas in Sagra as follows : " $ supra, cyaneo 

 violaceis margine fuscente fimbriaque albicante. $ Supra 

 fusconigricantibus, basi cyaneo virescente, etc." At the end of 

 the account of this insect he goes on to say : "usually the female 

 is without any blue." I think, therefore, that the female with- 

 out any blue is probably the one M. Oberthiir has kindly lent 

 me, and has nothing to do with astcnidas vera. The descrip- 

 tion suits hanno well, and I am quite prepared to accept Dyar's 

 conclusion that the name astenidas should fall as a synonym 

 of hanno. 



H. ammon Lucas in Sagra. 



This is a delicate little insect of a clear lavender blue with two dark 

 anal spots, the upper one of which is edged above with red, the fringes 

 are tessellated black and white. The wings are so delicate that the 

 underside markings show through. The underside is whitish gray and 

 all the markings are encircled with white. In the primaries there is a 

 quadrilateral spot at the end of the cell followed rather closely by a 

 continuous band of six confluent spots, making a band rather than a 

 row of spots; below the sixth there is a smaller one that is discon- 

 tinuous ; a broad white area follows this and is succeeded by a broadish 

 irregular, pale brown stripe, beyond this being the broad white margin 

 in which is a series of pale brown internervular dots. 



The secondaries have the usual three black basal spots below each 

 other with another costal one (black) near the apex; the cell is closed 

 by an angled pale brown mark, close to which is the transverse row of 

 seven more or less isolated spots beginning below the black costal one, 

 the second is projected right outwards, the third and fourth confluent 

 inwards, the fifth further inwards, the sixth outwards, the seventh 



