390 XOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 



Length of forewing : <? 7 mm., ? 9 mm. 



Expanse : i 16 mm., ? 20 mm. 



ti t?c?, 2 ? ?, Dampier Island; 1 cJ, 1 ?, Vulcan Island. (Type i Uampier). 



1 15. Zizera lulu (Math.) 



Lycaena lulu Mathew, Trans. Entom. Soc. Loud. 1889. p. 312 (Tongatabu). 

 4 c?(?, Vnlcan Island. 



116. Lycaenesthes violacea Bntl. 



Lycaemsthes riolacea Butler, A}ui. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) iv. p. 343 (189'j) (Louisiades). 

 r cJc?, 1 S, Dampier Island ; 4 i<S,4 ? ?, Vnlcan Island. 



117. Lycaenesthes rufimargo sp. nuv. 



S. Above. Very similar to violacea Butl., bnt has somewhat broader and 

 much more distinct black margins to the wings. 



Beloiv. Much paler than violacea ; on the forewing the darker white-edged 

 bands are much shorter, straighter, and wider apart, not reaching beyond vein 4, 

 while there is a third shorter antemediau band reaching to median vein ; a black 

 patch on snbmedian line at vein 2 is also absent in violacea. Hindwing differs 

 conspicnonsly in having a submarginal band of coalescent triangular rufous orange 

 spots, and the large spot between veins 1 and 2 is orange outwardly and black 

 inwardly, while in violacea these colours are reversed. 



Length of forewing : 16 mm. 



Expanse : 35 mm. 



1 S , Vulcan Island. 



118. Syntarucus manusi sp. nov. 



cj. Above. Violet-blae with a leaden gloss ; fore- and hindwings with aii 

 even sooty-black margin ; a minute tail and a submarginal black dot between veins 

 1 and 2 on hindwing 



Below. Forewing wood-grey ; two incurved oblique white subbasal bands 

 reaching from inner margin to subcostal nervnre, where they join in a point, the 

 outer one enclosing a wood-grey band, an inwardly turned oblique median band from 

 vein 2 to costa and a similar postmedian one from vein 4 to subcostal white with 

 central wood-grey band; between these two bands, and joined to the inner one, is a 

 round white patch between veins 3 and 4 with grey centre ; a broad white submarginal 

 band with a narrower central wood-grey band within it and a marginal row of wooJ- 

 grey spots. Hindwing white; six subbasal i)atches of wood-grey, an antemedian 

 curved band of wood-grey expanding from the centre to the costa and the abdominal 

 margin ; a broken median band from costa to vein 4, a postmedian broad band from 

 abdominal margin to vein 6, a subterminal tesselated band, and a marginal row 

 of dots and hairline wood-grey, an orange, green and black ocellus on each side of 

 vein 2 at termen. 



