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  LYC^NID^ 
  (oriental). 
  THYSONOTIS. 
  

  

  towards 
  the 
  base. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  imperfectly-marked 
  eyes 
  on 
  

   the 
  border 
  towards 
  the 
  anal 
  angle, 
  indicated 
  by 
  pale-blue 
  crescents 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  

   side, 
  and 
  slender 
  white 
  submarginal 
  stripes 
  on 
  the 
  oi;ter 
  side. 
  Tail 
  long, 
  slender, 
  

   black, 
  tipped 
  with 
  white. 
  

  

  Underside 
  nearly 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  

  

  Head 
  black 
  above, 
  orbits, 
  cheeks, 
  and 
  bands 
  on 
  scape 
  of 
  antennae 
  beneath, 
  

   white. 
  Thorax 
  pale 
  greenish-bhie 
  above; 
  abdomen 
  brown. 
  Body 
  mostly 
  

   whitish 
  beneath 
  ; 
  legs 
  black, 
  slightly 
  lined 
  and 
  spotted 
  with 
  white. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Pura, 
  October, 
  1891, 
  and 
  Wetter, 
  May, 
  189'2 
  (Doherty). 
  

  

  lu 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Eothschild 
  and 
  H. 
  Grose 
  Smith. 
  

  

  This 
  pretty 
  little 
  species 
  is 
  probably 
  allied 
  to 
  Lycaena 
  Alevas, 
  Felder, 
  but 
  is 
  very 
  distinct 
  ; 
  

   inter 
  alia, 
  the 
  metallic 
  markings 
  of 
  the 
  undersurface 
  are 
  coppery 
  green, 
  instead 
  of 
  blue. 
  

  

  YII.— 
  THYSONOTIS 
  VIDUA. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  9, 
  10. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  black, 
  with 
  narrow 
  white 
  fringes. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  

   traces 
  of 
  metallic 
  blue 
  scaling 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  along 
  the 
  subcostal 
  nervure 
  and 
  its 
  

   branches 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  white 
  band, 
  commencing 
  narrowly 
  rather 
  before 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  

   the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  and 
  extending 
  upward 
  beyond 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  outwardly 
  it 
  expands 
  

   nearly 
  to 
  the 
  hind 
  margin, 
  curving 
  round 
  to 
  a 
  white 
  spot 
  just 
  above 
  the 
  hinder 
  

   angle, 
  the 
  space 
  between 
  this 
  and 
  the 
  main 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  white 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  wmg 
  

   being 
  thickly 
  dusted 
  with 
  black 
  over 
  the 
  white. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  white 
  

   oblique 
  band, 
  continuous 
  with 
  that 
  on 
  the 
  fore 
  wings, 
  and 
  continued 
  to 
  the 
  base 
  

   on 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  area 
  being 
  brown, 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  wing 
  black. 
  

  

  Underside 
  almost 
  exactly 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  of 
  T. 
  Dnuri 
  (postea), 
  except 
  

   that 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  the 
  curved 
  outer 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  blue 
  band 
  is 
  broader, 
  and 
  

   extends 
  to 
  the 
  white 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  wing 
  ; 
  the 
  black 
  border 
  is 
  only 
  continued 
  

   beyond 
  it, 
  in 
  dots 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  nervures. 
  

  

  Body 
  blue 
  above, 
  with 
  large 
  black 
  spots 
  towards 
  the 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  

   abdomen 
  ; 
  antennte 
  black, 
  spotted 
  with 
  white 
  below 
  ; 
  head 
  black, 
  orbits 
  and 
  

   palpi 
  beneath 
  blue 
  ; 
  pectus 
  black, 
  white 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  white 
  beneath. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Waigiou 
  (Von 
  Platen). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger. 
  

  

  Nearest 
  to 
  the 
  typical 
  female 
  of 
  T. 
  Wallacei, 
  Felder, 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  figure. 
  

  

  