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area broadly soot}' black, the portion between tornns and vein 4 broken np 

 into spots. 



Beloiv. Whity grey ; forewing a discocellular streak, a postmedian band of 

 streaks, a postdiscal band of confluent half-moons, and a subterminal row of spots 

 cinnamon-brown ; hindwing with three black antemedian spots, a median black 

 spot above vein 7 and two broken discal bands of cinnamon-brown streaks ; a post- 

 discal baud of confluent half-moons cinnamon-brown ; a submarginal row of seven 

 large spots, the four nearest tornns black, the rest cinnamon-brown. 



Length of forewing : \'i mm. 



Expanse : 26 mm. 



1 c?, Vnlcan Island. 



110. Eupsychellus dionysius (Boisd.) 



Lycaena dionysius Boisduval, Voy. Astrol. Lip. p. 82. No. 11 (1832) (New Guinea). 



1 ?, Manus, Admiralty Islands ; 4 iS, 4 ? ?, Vulcan Island; 4 Si, 4 ? ?, 

 Dampier Island. 



111. Castalius evena (Hew.) 



Lycaena evena Hewitson, Exot. Butt. v. t. 1. £f. 2, 3 (1876) (New Guinea). 



5 tS<S, Dampier Island. 



112. Zizera gaika (Trim.) 



Lycaena gaika Trimen, Trans. Entom. Soc. Loml (3) I. p. 403 (1862) (South Africa). 

 8 cJ(?, Manus, Admiralty Islands. 



113. Zizera labradus (God.) 



Polyommatus labrailus Godart, Etic. Meth. ix. p. 680. No. 197 (1823) (Australia). 



This species varies enormously in size. 



Length of forewing : S lU-1.5 mm., ? 9-14 mm. 



6 cJcJ, 3 ? ?, Dampier Island ; 2 cJcJ, 5 ? ?, Vulcan Island; 1 S<S, Manus, 

 Admiralty Islands. 



114. Zizera dampierensis sp. no v. 



S. In size and shape nearest to gaika Trim., but still smaller. 



Above. Difl:ers at first sight by the much broader brown-black terminal area, 

 which occupies two-fifths of the whole wing. Hindwing also has wider brown- 

 black margins. 



Below. Difi'ers in the brownish grey, not silvery whitish grey, ground colour, 

 in the much larger and deeper-coloured spots, and in the distinct postdiscal and 

 subterminal bauds of both wings. 



? . SimOar, but whole upper surface brown-black, the basal two-thirds more 

 or less sutiused with laveuder-grey. 



