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whitish. Forew'mg with a quadrate marking at the end of the disooidal 

 cell ; a catenulated discal hand consisting of eight portions, broken in 

 the middle, the posterior moiety shifted inwardly towards the base of 

 the wing ; a submarginal lunulated band ; a marginal series of oval 

 spots between the veins j a very fine anteciliary black thread. Hind- 

 wing with three prominent rounded deep black spots arranged across the 

 base, a large one just behind the middle of the costal nervure, a smaller 

 one in the middle of the cell, a still smaller one in the middle of the 

 abdominal margin ; an elongated marking at the end of the cell ; a 

 much broken discal band, the anterior portion consisting of two spots, 

 the middle portion also of two spots, but shifted outwardly, the lower 

 portion of four spots, which are recurved to the abdominal margin; 

 a submarginal lunulated band ; a marginal series of oval spots between 

 the veins, the one in the first median interspace larger than the others and 

 crowned with orange, outwardly bearing a clump of metallic turquoise- 

 blue scales ; a fine anteciliary black thread. 6Wrt of both wings white 

 bisected by a black line. Female. Uppekside, both icings dull black 

 with no pm-ple gloss. Fovew'mg with an elongated discal whitish area 

 in the second median interspace, which in some lights apjjears of a rich 

 blue iridescent colour. Hindioing as in the male. Underside, loth 

 wings with the ground-colour whitish, paler than in the male, the 

 markings very similar. 



The only other species known in this genus (which is an excellent one, 

 with only two subcostal norvules to the forewing in both sexes, no 

 S3Gondary male sexual characters, and allied to Thecla, as Herr Georg 

 Semper points out), is H>/potht'cla aslyla, Felder, from the Philippine 

 Islands, from which H. honos ditfi3rs in the much duller coloration of 

 both wings of both sexes on the upperside, that species having the 

 purple coloration much more developed, and specially in the markings 

 of the underside, in //. astyla the discal band in both wings is continuous 

 and unbroken, in H. honos it is once fractured in the forewing and 

 twice in the hindwing ; also the submarginal band in H. astyla is 

 straight with even edges, in H. honos it is highly lunulated. 



Described from one male and five females kindly sent to me by the 

 capturer, Herr H. Fruhstorfer, from Toll Toll, North Celebes, Novem- 

 ber-December, 1895. All are in poor condition as regards the upper- 

 side, but the markings of the underside are in every specimen perfectly 



