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Llie middle of the inner margin black, traversed by two rows of very conspicuous 

 brilliant blue conical lunules and a submarginal row of Uue lines, a broad while 

 band inside the black outer half, base rather broadly black. 



Female. — Both wings dusky bromi-black, with a dusky white ill-defined band 

 commencing at tlie end of tlie cell of the anterior wings, crossing its inner margin 

 at the middle, and terminating on the inner margin of the posterior wings on its 

 upper third. There are no traces of bkie on the upperside. Underside exactly as 

 in the male. 



Expanse of wings : 1|^ inch. 



Near to T. aleuae P'eld., but deeper blue on the upperside, and the blue 

 markings on the underside more developed; the white area on both sides more 

 restricted, and the female without blue shading towards the base of the wings. 



A long series of males and one female. 



228. Lampides amphissina sp. nov. 



!M.\LE. — Upjierside: both wings paler and more shining blue than L. a,mphissa, 

 the type of which in the Felder collection is now before me. On the po.sterior wings 

 the dark submarginal spots towards the anal angle of that species are absent ; both 

 wings are shorter and rather less opaque, the markings on the underside being 

 indistinctly visible. 



The underside closely resembles L, aviphtssa, but is more slate-coloured, 

 and the markings are whiter and more distinct. On the anterior wings the 

 double row of white lines across the disc is more vertically situated, those on 

 the costal margin being farther from the apex. On the posterior wings the dark 

 spots between the veins towards the apex are more conical. The submarginal band 

 of orange lunules which in L. amphissa extends from the inner margin above the 

 anal angle into the interspace beyond the uppermost median nervule is represented 

 by two orange lunules and part of another iu the interspaces between the median 

 nervules and submedian nervvu'e. 



F"emale. — Uppjerside: differs from that sex of L. amphissa on the anterior 

 wings, in the piile space in the middle of those wings being more restricted, the 

 basal half of the costa Ijeing broadly greyish black, the same colour as the apical 

 and outer-marginal area, and densely dusted with blue scales; there is an indistinct 

 submarginal row of black spots partially suiTOunded by blue. In the female of L. 

 amphissa the whole of the inner two-thirds of the anterior wings is greyish white 

 without blue colouring, the posterior wings are greyish black, the costal margip 

 from the base to half its length whitish, and the basal two-thirds of the disc and 

 the cell brightly suffused with blue. 



Underside: the costal area, apex, and outer fourth of the disc of the anterior 

 wings are slate-coloured grey with pale whiti.sh markings, the rest of the wings 

 white; posterior wings with the costal margin broadly whitish, the rest of the wings 

 grey, with spots and markings as in the male. 



Expanse of wings : male, If inch ; female, Ij inch. 



Fom- males and a female from Humboldt Bay. In another specimen, a female 

 from Biak, which in other respects is identical with the female from Humboldt Bay, 

 the submarginal band of orange lunules on the imderside of the posterior wings 

 is very broad, and extends into the interspace beyond the discoidal nervule. I 

 may be wrong in considering these two females to be the females of /.. amphissina; 



