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V. Description of the female of Hypochrysops scintillans, 
Butl. By Hamitron H. Drucz, F.Z.S8. 
[Read Feb. 7th, 1894. ] 
We have lately procured a fine pair of this species ; 
the ¢ only of which has been described, and as the ¢ 
presents considerable differences I have written the fol- 
lowing deseription. ‘They were received from Mioko, 
New Ireland, the ¢ agreeing with the type in the 
National Museum from New Britain. 
Hypochrysops sceimtillans. 
Miletus scintillans, Butl., Ann, and Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(5), x; p. 150: (1882). 
Hypochrysops scintillans, H. H. Druce, Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. (1890), p. 191. 
@. Upperside brown with a creamy-white central patch on 
forewing ; no trace of biue. Forewing rich dark brown, with a 
disc of creamy-white arranged much as the blue in H. cratevas ¢?, 
and extending from the base to beyond the cell, lightest in colour 
towards the centre of the wing, and becoming gradually sub- 
merged in the brown borders, the inner margin being lighter 
brown than the rest of the wing. Hindwing brown, considerably 
paler than the forewing, darker along the subcostal nervure to 
the base of the subcostal nervule, where it becomes somewhat 
suffused ; the median nervure from about its middle, and the two 
median nervules from their bases, distinctly and evenly yellow. 
Costal margin from base nearly to apex pale creamy-white. 
Upper half of anal fold greyish, lower concolorous with wings. 
Cilia of both wings brown, that of hindwing being rather darker 
than ground colour. Underside much as in ¢, but the median 
space of forewing (bordered by the lower wall of the cell and the 
subapical red band) creamy-white in place of greyish-brown ; the 
red bands of the hindwing being somewhat wider, and their 
metallic borders scarcely so brilliant. Thorax and abdomen 
brown ; head dark brown, with a whitish frontal line, and a yellow 
inner border to the eye ; legs and palpi yellow. Antenne black, 
white spotted below, yellow tipped. Expanse, 9 1,3, in., ¢ 1} in. 
