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  LTC^NID^ 
  (oriental). 
  — 
  HYPOCHRYSOPS. 
  

  

  metallic 
  blue, 
  except 
  below 
  the 
  cell, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  narrowly 
  bordered 
  by 
  that 
  colour, 
  

   and 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  narrow 
  metallic 
  blue 
  lines. 
  A 
  white 
  band, 
  

   broadest 
  in 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  covers 
  the 
  inner 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  disc, 
  commencing 
  at 
  

   the 
  upper 
  median 
  ner\-ule. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  sub-basal 
  velvety 
  black 
  bar, 
  

   the 
  space 
  above 
  which, 
  to 
  near 
  the 
  costal 
  margin 
  which 
  is 
  black 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  

   thence 
  round 
  the 
  bar 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  is 
  metallic 
  blue 
  ; 
  beyond 
  this, 
  crossing 
  

   the 
  cell, 
  and 
  extending 
  from 
  the 
  costal 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margins, 
  is 
  a 
  broad 
  white 
  

   band 
  ; 
  the 
  space 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  is 
  black, 
  bordered 
  on 
  its 
  inner 
  edge 
  

   by 
  a 
  metalhc 
  blue 
  line 
  extending 
  from 
  the 
  mner 
  margin 
  to 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  

   and 
  crossed 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  by 
  a 
  broad 
  band 
  of 
  metallic 
  blue 
  nearly 
  straight 
  

   on 
  its 
  outer 
  edge, 
  but 
  very 
  irregular 
  on 
  its 
  inner 
  edge, 
  and 
  widest 
  in 
  the 
  middle; 
  

   there 
  is 
  a 
  rather 
  broad 
  metallic 
  blue 
  band 
  a 
  little 
  before 
  the 
  outer 
  margin. 
  

  

  Body 
  blackish, 
  thorax 
  greenish 
  blue, 
  antennae 
  black, 
  club 
  rufous 
  below, 
  and 
  

   at 
  the 
  tip 
  above 
  ; 
  orbits 
  metallic 
  blue 
  ; 
  thorax 
  greenish 
  blue 
  above 
  ; 
  pectus 
  and 
  

   abdomen 
  beneath 
  mostly 
  white 
  ; 
  the 
  latter 
  narrowly 
  ringed 
  with 
  white 
  above 
  ; 
  

   palpi 
  and 
  legs 
  streaked 
  with 
  white, 
  tarsi 
  dull 
  ferruginous. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Humboldt 
  Bay, 
  Dutch 
  New 
  Guinea, 
  Sept. 
  -Oct,, 
  1892 
  (Doherty). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Eothschild. 
  

   There 
  is 
  one 
  specimen 
  only 
  of 
  this 
  very 
  beautiful 
  insect. 
  

  

  X.— 
  HYPOCHRYSOPS 
  SIEEN. 
  i 
  . 
  Figs. 
  11, 
  12. 
  

  

  ITypochnjsops 
  Siren, 
  H. 
  Grose 
  Smith, 
  " 
  Novitates 
  Zoologicae," 
  I., 
  p. 
  551, 
  

   n. 
  190 
  (April, 
  1894). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1} 
  inches. 
  

   Male. 
  Upperside. 
  Both 
  wings 
  brown-black. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  patch 
  

   of 
  iridescent 
  bluish 
  green 
  below 
  the 
  cell, 
  occupying 
  the 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  lowest 
  

   median 
  nervule, 
  at 
  about 
  half 
  its 
  length, 
  and 
  the 
  submedian 
  nervure, 
  and 
  thence 
  

   to 
  the 
  base, 
  with 
  a 
  streak 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  colour 
  below 
  the 
  submedian 
  nervure. 
  

   Posterior 
  wings 
  suffused 
  in 
  certain 
  lights 
  with 
  a 
  patch 
  of 
  brilliant 
  purple, 
  which 
  

   extends 
  over 
  the 
  cell, 
  beyond 
  it 
  at 
  its 
  lower 
  end 
  halfway 
  over 
  the 
  disc, 
  and 
  below 
  

   it 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  submedian 
  nervure. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  tawny 
  brown 
  ; 
  the 
  space 
  in 
  the 
  cell 
  is 
  metallic 
  

   greenish 
  golden, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  ochreous 
  band 
  running 
  through 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  base, 
  

   and 
  extending 
  beyond 
  it 
  above 
  the 
  upper 
  discoidal 
  nervule 
  to 
  a 
  little 
  distance 
  

  

  