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DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW SPECIES OF LYCAENIDAE, 



CAPTURED BY ME. DOHERTY, IN THE 



TRING MUSEUM. 



By II. GROSE SMITH, B.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., etc. 



1. Arhopala strophe sp. no v. 



Female. — Vpperside: both wings silvery ccrnlcan bine. Anterior wings with 

 the costal margin and the apical third dark brown, the dark area extending rather 

 broadly along the onter to the inner margin. Posterior wings with the costal margin 

 broadly pale greyish brown, and the onter and inner margins rather broadly dark 

 brown; the veins crossing the disc dark brown. One broad tail; cilia white from the 

 upper median nervnle to the anal angle, crossed with brown at the ends of the 

 veins. 



Underside: both wings brownish white, with bars and spots bright purplish 

 brown. Anterior wings with the base, a spot in the cell near the base, two broad bars 

 from the costal margin, where they coalesce, to the median nervnre, one of which 

 crosses the cell, and the other is at the end of the cell and extends beyond it; another 

 narrower rather sinuate and oblique bar, halfway towards the apex, from the costal 

 margin nearly to the lowest median nervnle, a narrow paler submarginal line of the 

 same length, and a broad marginal band. Posterior wings with a baiid of spots ex- 

 tending from the costa near the base to the end of the cell; beyond this two broad 

 bars cross the wings from the costa to the upper median nervule, where they merge 

 in a dark space which covers the middle of the disc and extends broadly below the 

 median nervnre to the base; a broad band on the outer margin, bordered inwardly by 

 a narrow paler line; a dark spot above the anal angle, above which is a dark band 

 confluent with the dark central space and extending to the inner margin ; a sinuate 

 pale submarginal line towards the anal angle. Antennae black above, rufous 

 beneath ; head, thorax, and abdomen grey, the last being tawny beneath. 



Expanse of wings : 1;' inches. 



liab. Kapaur, Dutch S.W. New Guinea. 



On the upperside it somewhat resembles the female of A. eurisiis Druce and 

 of A. euphrosyne Grose Smith, but on the underside it diflfers entirely from any 

 known species. 



2. Arhopala clarissa sp. nov. 



Male. — Upperside : both wings silvery lacteous white, very faintly tinged with 

 blue. Anterior wings with an apical dark brown band, which extends broadly over 

 the subcostal nervules nearly halfway to the base, and along the outer margin 

 gradually narrowing to the outer angle; in that part of the band which extends along 

 the costa is, in certain lights, a brilliant morpho-blue oblong patch, and the inner 

 edge of the band along the outer margin is narrowly bordered by a similar colour. 

 Posterior wings with the costal margin towards the apex pale greyish brown, a sub- 

 marginal narrow black bar from the anal angle nearly to the lowest submcdian 

 nervule, a shorter bar between the next two veins, and an indication of other black 



