396 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 



151. Miletus theophanes (Gr. Smith) 



Hypochrytops theophanes Grose Smith, Nov. Zml. i. p. 550. No. 188 (189i) (Humboldt Bay). 



1 c?, Vnlcan Island. 



152. Miletus heros (Gr. Smith) 



Hypochrysops heron Grose Smith, Nov. Zool. i. p. 550. No. 189 (1894) (Humboldt Bay). 

 3 c? (?, 5 ? ? , Dampier Island. 



153. Miletus dryope (Gr. Smith) 



Hypochrysops dryope Grose Smith, Rhopal Exot. ii. Oriental Lymenklae p. 15. pi. ill. ff. 1. i. (1895) 

 (Constantinhafen). 



4c?cJ,4 ? ?, Vnlcan Island. 



154. Miletus chrysargyra (Gr. Smith) 



Hypochrysops rhrysargyra Gross Smith, Rhopal. Exot. ii. Oriental Lycaenidae p. 16. pi. iii. ff. 4. 5 

 (1895) (New Guinea). 



2 ? ? , Vnlcan Island. 



155. Liphyra brassolis robusta (Feld.) 



Sterosis robusta Felder, Reise Nor. Lep. ii. p. 219. No. 237. t. 27. ff. 10. 11 (1865) (Halmaheira). 



This extraordinary insect is very variable both individually and locally. It 

 has been divided into four subspecies, viz. : 



brassolis brassolis Westw., N. India, Malacca, etc. 



b. robusta Feld., Molnccas, etc. 



b. major Rothsch., Queensland, and 



b. abbreviata Strand, Sumatra. 



In addition to these four forms of L. brassolis., Herr Em. Strand has 

 described as a distinct species Liphyra castnia from German and Dutch New 

 Guinea. This form at first si^ht looks very different from brassolis, being above 

 entirely black, with an olilique postmediau orange baud on forewing from costa 

 to vein 2. However, if he examine.s a large series, the student is at once struck 

 by the enormons variability in this insect, which owes its extreme rarity in 

 collections to its parasitic habits in the nests of tree ants. 



The Tring Museum possesses the following specimens : 



1 ? , Malacca (coll. Biggs fig. by Distant). 



1 c?, Penang Hill (coll. Adams). 



1 ?, Perak (bought Doncaster). 



1 ? , Borneo (Micholitz coll.) 



1 6, Halmaheira (Waterstradt). 



1 ? , Dodinga, Halmaheira (Lorquin) (Type of robusta Feld.) 



1 ?, Kossell Island, Lonisiade Islaud.s (Feb. 1898, A. S. Meek). 



1 c?, British New Guinea (Dr. Heath). 



1 6, Humboldt Bay (Sept., Oct. 1892, W. Doherty). 



