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above shows more or less throiigh, but, iu the secondar}- there is a patch of pale 

 orauge-browa hair-like scales iu the cell. 



Expanse : 40 mm. 



Hab. Upper Aroa River. 



In the Tring Museum. It is a most interesting species, being extremely close 

 to a s]iecies of EloJina that we have received from the same district and also from 

 other ])arts of British New (Juinea. 



Tlie determination of this insect has led me to examine Ruber's genus Pliiliris, 

 about which both Mr. H. H. Drnce and also Mr. G. A. Waterhonse, of Sydney, 

 have had something to say. Hubner's genus Candalides has been known for years, 

 and if we take tlie first-named species (which is the most convenient custom with 

 the older authors) as his type, xanthospilos becomes the type of the geuus. Riiber 

 has made ilias Feld. the type of his geuus. The neuration of these two species is 

 precisely the same, the eyes are the same, and also the palpi ; in fact, I can find 

 no structural difference at all save a slight diversity in contour. Under these 

 circumstances I think Philiris should sink under Candalides. 



Parachrysops gen. nov. 



(?. Ej'es naked, palpi ascending, rather slight, second segment long scaled, 

 end segment long, fine, erect. 



Neuration : Primary, vein 2 from about three-fifths from whence the cell is 

 slightly angled ; this vein is strongly curved downwards, 3 from well before the 

 lower angle slightly curved downwards, 7 into the apex stalked at its centre with 8, 

 rising from the cell close to the angle. In the secondary, vein 5 rises from above 

 the middle of the discocellulars. 



The neuration of this genus is in the main similar to Hi/pochrt/sops Feld., with 

 the differences now enumerated. The shape of the wings is quite different to any 

 known genus of the Lijcaenidae. In the primary the costa is flattened near the base 

 and nearly straight to beyond vein 10, where it is rounded and slightly depressed by 

 the apex ; the termen is nearly straight to vein 4, where it is suddenly produced to 

 3, receding slightly to 2, and rapidly from thence to the tornus ; the secondary is a 

 loug oval shape somewhat similar to the secondary of Euselasia eutj/chtis Hew., 

 with the costa slightly flattened ; the termen also is somewhat flattened IVom the 

 ap»x to vein 5, whilst the inner margin is straight. 



Type : P. bicolor spec. nov. 



|2. Parachrysops bicolor spec. nov. 



(J. Eyes brown ; palpi black above, white below ; frons crimson. 



Primary above uniformly black, with a white patch occupying the tornal half 

 oi the inner margin. Secondary pure white, with a very restricted dusky base. 

 Below, the primary is whitish, with a broad dark termen and inner margin. 

 Secondary entirely white. 



Expanse : 42 mm. 



Hab. Upper Aroa River. 



In the Tring Museum. 



It is unlike any other sjjecies or geuus with which 1 am acquainted. 



