314 Col. ©. Swinhoe on 
dark brown: hind wing ochreous grey, outer marginal line 
brown; cilia whitish, with brown tips: palpi brown ; body 
concolorous with the wings. Underside uniform pale ochreous 
brown ; hinder marginal space of fore wing pale, an out- 
wardly curved brown line like a half-circle from the costa 
before the apex, and an outwardly curved discal line on the 
hind wing. 
Expanse of wings, d, 1,4; inch. 
Hab. Gilolo Isl., North Moluccas (Doherty). 
XXXI.— New Lycenids and Hesperids and Two new Spectes 
of the Noctuid Family Acontiide. By Colonel C. 
SwinHos, M.A., F.L.8., &e. 
Family Lycanida. 
Lycenopsis trita, nov. 
gd. Upperside cerulean-blue, similar in colour to LD. ladon- 
ides, de 'Orza*, which it very much resembles ; marginal 
lines of both wings black ; cilia white. Underside cream- 
white, with a few blue irrorations at the base of both wings 
and along the abdominal margin of the hind wing: fore 
wing with a pale brown lunule closing the cell; five discal 
linear brown marks, four in a line, the upper one subcostal 
and well inwards; a double series of pale brown marks on 
the outer margin, the inner series lunular, the outer composed 
of triangular spots: hind wing with the outer margin 
similarly marked; a pale brown line closing the cell, a 
black spot on vein 6 near the base, and one below it in the 
cell, near the origin of vein 2; a subcostal black spot near 
the apex of the wing ; a curved series of black spots in inter- 
spaces 4, 3, 2, and 1, two close together and well outwards in 
the interno-median interspace, and three black spots on the 
abdominal margin. Antenna black with white rings ; head 
aud body above blue-black, white on the underside, head 
with black and white stripes ; eyes ringed with white; palpi 
* Lep. Japan, p. 20 (1869). 
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