( 1"-'' ) 



DESCEIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF OKIENTAL 

 BUTTEEFLIES. 



By H. GROSE-SMITII, B.A., F.E.S., F.Z.S., Etc. 



1. Hypochrysops aurifer sp. nov. 



Male. — Upperside: both wings rather bluer aud darker pnrple than in //. 

 pythias Feld., with black margins wider than in that species ; on the posterior 

 wings the outer margin is more emarginate. 



Underside : anterior wings with red bars and bands resembling those in 

 H. pythias^ bordered with metallic spots aud Ijars which are much broader and 

 more greenish golden than in that species; the ground-colour of the cell and the 

 costal area is greenish gold. Posterior wings with the ground-colour brilliant 

 greenish gold, with red spots and bands bordered on each side with black, which 

 are rather differently arranged from those in //. pythias, the bands being more 

 broken np into distinct spots. 



Expanse of wings : \\ inches. 



llah. Fergnsson Island (Meek). 



Described from one specimen in tlie Tring Mnseum. 



2. Hypochrysops aristocles sp. nov. 



Female. — Upperside : anterior wings brownish grey, with a broad white fascia 

 covering the middle of the disc from the upper discoidal nervule to the inner 

 margin ; this band is ronnded at the apex and slightly invades the cell ; the basal 

 two-thirds of the cell aud the area beneath are pale silvery blue. Posterior wings 

 dull brownish grey, with the basal third pale silvery blue ; the middle third is white, 

 more broadly so towards the costa than on the inner margin. 



Underside: anterior wings resemble //. alyattes G. & S., but the dark outer- 

 marginal area does not include a vertical white band. Posterior wings white, with 

 two parallel brownish black bands, one at the base and another below it from the inner 

 margin a little before its crossing the cell and ceasing on the subcostal nervure, 

 bot'i bauds bordered by silvery aznre-blue ; the disc is crossed by a third black 

 band from a little above the anal angle to the costal margin at the apex, where 

 it joins another marginal dark baud, the two bands enclosing a rather narrow white 

 area ; the third band is bordered on both sides by silvery blue lines, that on its 

 inner side only extending to the lowest median nervule; the marginal dai'k band 

 is traversed by a row of silvery blue spots divided by the veins. 



Expanse of wings : \\ inches. 



Allied to //. alyattes G. & S. 



HaL Meoko, Duke of York Islands (Ribbe). 



In the Tring Museum. 



3. Hypochrysops honora sp. nov. 

 Male. — Upperside .• resembles IJ. arronica Feld., but is darker purple, \\'\\\\ the 



