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anterior wings rather less produced at the apex; the cilia of the anterior wings 

 are black, not mottled with white as in H. arronica. • 



Um/erside : differs from //. arronica in the following respects : on the anterior 

 wings the cell and costal area are greoiiish lirowu instead of rnfons; the metallic 

 markings in the cell, costal and outer-marginal area are broader and greenish gold 

 instead of bluish gold ; the pale area is more dusky, and the vertical row of pale 

 bars between the veins towards the apex is narrower and of more uniform width. 

 On the posterior wings are three brick-red bands towards the base, not broken up 

 into spots as in //. arronica ; the shonlder and the area between the bars are 

 greenish gold instead of white. The other markings differ little from those in 

 //. arronica, but the submargiual hastate spots on either side of the lowest median 

 nervule are black instead of rnfons, and the discal hastate marks between the 

 median uervules of H. arronica are represented by straight bars. 



Expanse of wings : If inches. 



Hab. New Hanover (Webster, February and March 1897). 



In the Tring Museum. 



4. Hypochrysops rufinus sp. nov. 



Male. — Uppersidc : both wings dark jinrplc, the anterior wings with the 

 apex broadly, and the costal and onter margins more narrowly, black. Posterior 

 wings with the costal and outer margins brownish black. 



Underside : with the cell, costal margin, and apical third bright rnfons ; the 

 cell is bordered on the upperside by a metallic blue line, and traversed longitudinally 

 by another line of the same colonr, bent towards its end into the form of an 

 irregular S placed horizontally ; a bar at the end of the cell and several spots across 

 the upper part of the disc, and a submargiual row of spots, all metallic blue; 

 below the nifous area the ground-colour is rufous brown, becoming darker below 

 the cell and a little beyond it. Posterior wings bright rufous, crossed by six 

 metallic rnfons bands, of which the second and third from the base are parallel, 

 the onter bands being more or less broken up into spots ; the disc is traversed 

 by a broad irregular band of black markings, the veins crossing this band being 

 rufous. Cilia of both wings black. 



Expanse of wings : 1^ inches. 



Hab. Ron Island (W. Doherty, July 1897). 



In the Tring Museum. 



5. Thysonotis horsa sp. nov. 



Male. — Upperside .- resembles T. keiujis Grose-Smith, but duller blue, without 

 any irroration of white scales on the nj)perside of the anterior wings. Posterior 

 wings without the white band of T. kengis and T. wallacei Feld., only the costal 

 margin above the costal nervure being white ; the broad outer-marginal black band 

 is wider and rather deeply indented on the veins. 



Underside : on tlie anterior wings the black marginal band extends broadly all 

 round the costal and outer margins, becoming narrower to tlie outer angle: the aznre- 

 blne band by which it is centred is narrowed at the base, interrupted beyond the middle, 

 and extends along the outer margin as far as the lowest median nervule. On the 

 posterior wings the white band which crosses before the middle does not, on the 

 costal margin, approach so closely to the ajjcx; the discal blue area as in T. hengis, 



