﻿LYC.i:XID.E 
  (oEIEXTAL). 
  HOLOCHILA. 
  

  

  white 
  band, 
  increasing 
  in 
  width, 
  commencing 
  on 
  the 
  costa 
  just 
  before 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   and 
  ciirving 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  is 
  also 
  white. 
  

  

  Underside 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  there 
  are 
  six 
  rather 
  larger 
  black 
  siibmarginal 
  

   dots 
  instead 
  of 
  five, 
  that 
  nearest 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  dentated 
  inwardly. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  North-west 
  New 
  Guinea 
  (Sekar), 
  (Eober) 
  ; 
  Ati 
  On, 
  New 
  Guinea 
  

   (Kubary). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  the 
  Honourable 
  Walter 
  Eothchild, 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Grcse- 
  

   Smith. 
  

  

  Eober 
  considered 
  this 
  insect 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  local 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  ; 
  and 
  he 
  also 
  (" 
  Iris," 
  I., 
  

   p. 
  62, 
  pi. 
  iv., 
  tigs, 
  27, 
  28) 
  described 
  and 
  figured 
  a 
  third 
  form 
  from 
  Aru, 
  imder 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

   " 
  Pleheius 
  Dimorphus, 
  var. 
  Cceruleus." 
  

  

  VI.— 
  HOLOCHILA 
  DIMOEPHA. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  14, 
  15. 
  

  

  Pleheius 
  Dimorphus, 
  Eober, 
  " 
  Correspondenz-Blatt 
  des 
  Entomologischen 
  

   Vereins, 
  ' 
  Iris,' 
  zu 
  Dresden," 
  I., 
  p. 
  62 
  (1884.) 
  

  

  3Iale. 
  Upperside. 
  Azure-blue, 
  with 
  moderately 
  broad 
  black 
  borders, 
  the 
  

   tips 
  of 
  the 
  fringes, 
  and 
  the 
  costa 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  white, 
  the 
  nervures 
  on 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  incrassated 
  as 
  in 
  H. 
  Cuprea, 
  but 
  concolorous 
  with 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  

   the 
  wing. 
  

  

  Underside 
  pearly-white, 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  line 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  fringes. 
  

   Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  two 
  rows 
  of 
  brown 
  linear 
  submarginal 
  dashes 
  on 
  their 
  lower 
  

   half. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  as 
  in 
  H. 
  Cuprea, 
  but 
  with 
  six 
  larger 
  submarginal 
  black 
  

   dots, 
  the 
  long 
  spot 
  above 
  the 
  submedian 
  nervure 
  being 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  round 
  one 
  

   below 
  it, 
  of 
  which 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  trace 
  in 
  H. 
  Cuprea. 
  

  

  Hab, 
  Eastern 
  New 
  Guinea 
  (Eober) 
  ; 
  Stephansort, 
  German 
  New 
  Guinea 
  

   (Webster, 
  1894). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  the 
  Honourable 
  Walter 
  Rothschild, 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  and 
  others. 
  

   This 
  and 
  the 
  preceding 
  insects 
  are 
  allied 
  to 
  H. 
  Absimilis, 
  Felder. 
  

  

  