354 Mr. A. G. Butler ow Lepidoptera from Lifu. 



median branches, by a paler belt : body below sordid wliitisli. 

 Expanse of wings 2 inches 3 lines. 



A very distinct species, not nearly allied to any other yet 

 described. 



Family Lycaenidae. 

 Lampides, Hlibner. 



18. Lampides caledonica^ Felder. 

 Closely allied to L. jdatissa, but smaller. 



19. Lampides jiorinda^ n. sp. (No. 16). 



$ . Wings above ultramarine blue : primaries with a narrow 

 dark brown outer border ; fringe white externally : secon- 

 daries with the costal area brown, the outer border macular, 

 narrowly dark brown, the spot above the tail black, sur- 

 mounted by a narrow orange lunule; fringe white, spotted 

 with brown ; body above grey. Wings below chalky white, 

 with a marginal blackish line ; a submarginal series of small 

 dots mostly brown, surmounted by a lunulated slender brown 

 line ; an irregular chain-like series of brown-bordered sordid 

 spots (the series of secondaries angulated) across the disk ; 

 the cells closed by a double brown litura : primaries with a 

 double line across the cell, and a brown-edged spot beyond the 

 centre of the costa : secondaries with a slightly angular series 

 of brown-edged spots from the costa across the cell ; one or 

 two brown lines on the abdominal margin ; a black spot sur- 

 mounted with orange above the tail, and a smaller one near 

 anal angle ; all the brown-edged spots on the under surface 

 with snow-white borders : body below snow-white. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch 1 line. 

 A very distinct species. 



Family Papilionidse. 



PiEEiN^j Swainson. 



Elodina, Felder. 



20. Elodina p)seudanops^ n. sp. (No. 13). 



Wings above smoky brown : primaries darker than the 

 secondaries ; an oblique pale sulphur-yellow patch crossing 

 the end of the cell, and divided at its inferior extremity (which 

 is rounded) by the second median branch, its anterior margin 



