On this second day, the thirty-six bees taken contained forty- 

 four specimens of St^Iojjs — seventeen males and twenty-seven females ; 

 these, added to the captures on the previous day, make a total of forty- 

 six bees, that contained in all nineteen males and forty females. 



F. Enock. 



DESCEIPTIONS OF THEEE NEW SPECIES OF LYCBNIDJE. 

 by w. c. hewitson, f.l.s. 



Htpochrtsops Deltcia. 



Upper-side : metallic silvery- white, tinted (as the light falls upon 

 it) with blue or green. Anterior wing with the outer half dark 

 brown. Posterior wing with the costal and outer margins rufous- 

 brown : the anal angle scarlet. 



Underside : stone colour. Both wings with a series of scarlet spots 

 on the outer margins traversed by a silver line. Anterior wing with 

 a large, irregular, longitudinal, scarlet spot in the cell bordered with 

 black and silver, a minute black spot also in the cell : three black spots 

 below these, a hexafid scarlet transverse band beyond the middle, 

 bordered by black and silver. Posterior wing with the base of the 

 costal margin and several transverse spots scarlet bordered with 

 silver : one spot near the base succeeded by three spots, by a band of 

 four spots, by two spots near the middle, and by a band of seven spots 

 (one bifid). 



Exp. 2aV inch. Hab. Australia. 



In the collection of Henley G. Smith. 



A splendid species, most nearly resembling II. ignita on the 

 under-side. 



Hypociirtsops Bubases. 



Upper-side: cerulean-blue with all the margins broadly brown. 

 Posteriorwing with two slender tails, the outer margin rufous, broadest 

 near the anal angle, where it is bordered above and below with silver. 



Under-side : rufous. Both wings undulated throughout with black, 

 and marked by several irregular black spots, and by numerous small 

 silvery-blue spots, some of which form two sub-marginal bands. 



Exp. Ito inch. Hab. Malacca (Wallace). 



In the collection of "W. C. Hewitson. 



