﻿BUTTERFLIES 
  OF 
  ADMIRALTY 
  ISLANDS 
  — 
  WAGNER 
  AND 
  GRETHER 
  179 
  

  

  NACADUBA 
  ANCYRA 
  (Fclder) 
  

  

  Lycaena 
  ancyra 
  Feldek, 
  Sitzb. 
  Akad. 
  Wiss. 
  Wien, 
  math.-naturw. 
  CI., 
  1860, 
  p. 
  458, 
  

   No. 
  35 
  (Amboina). 
  

  

  Records. 
  — 
  Four 
  males, 
  Los 
  Negros, 
  November 
  18, 
  1944, 
  March 
  30, 
  

   1945. 
  One 
  female, 
  November 
  21 
  , 
  1945. 
  

  

  Notes. 
  — 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  previous 
  record 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  from 
  the 
  Admiral- 
  

   ties, 
  but 
  Rothschild 
  had 
  specimens 
  from 
  Vulcan 
  and 
  Dampier 
  Islands. 
  

   It 
  is 
  odd 
  that 
  the 
  only 
  Nacaduha 
  that 
  we 
  found 
  was 
  not 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  five 
  

   recorded 
  by 
  Rothschild. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  common 
  butterfly 
  of 
  open 
  fields 
  at 
  Momote 
  Airstrip, 
  Los 
  

   Negros. 
  The 
  flight 
  is 
  low 
  and 
  resembles 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  little 
  

   meadow 
  blues. 
  

  

  THYSONOTIS 
  HYMETUS 
  MANUSI 
  Rothschild 
  

  

  Thysonotis 
  hymefus 
  maniisi 
  Rothschild, 
  Nov. 
  ZooL, 
  voL 
  22, 
  No. 
  3, 
  p. 
  394, 
  Decem- 
  

   ber 
  1915 
  (Manns) 
  , 
  

  

  Note. 
  — 
  This 
  subspecies 
  was 
  described 
  from 
  six 
  specimens 
  of 
  both 
  

   sexes 
  from 
  Manus. 
  

  

  THYSONOTIS 
  HAMILCAR 
  Grose 
  Smith 
  

  

  Thysonotis 
  hamilcar 
  Grose 
  Smith, 
  Ann. 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  ser. 
  6, 
  voL 
  16, 
  p. 
  25, 
  1894 
  

   (New 
  Britain). 
  — 
  Rothschild, 
  Nov. 
  Zool., 
  vol. 
  22, 
  No. 
  3, 
  p. 
  394, 
  December 
  

   1915 
  (Manus). 
  

  

  Note. 
  — 
  Rothschild 
  received 
  nine 
  specimens 
  representing 
  both 
  sexes 
  

   from 
  Manus. 
  

  

  THYSONOTIS 
  DISPAR 
  LATIFASCIA 
  Rothschild 
  

  

  Thysonotis 
  dispar 
  latifascia 
  Rothschild, 
  Nov. 
  ZooL, 
  voL 
  22, 
  No. 
  3, 
  p. 
  394, 
  

  

  December 
  1915 
  (Manus). 
  

   Thysanotis 
  su'bsuleima 
  Stkand, 
  Lepidoptera 
  Niepeltiana, 
  pt. 
  2, 
  p. 
  18 
  pL 
  14 
  fig. 
  31, 
  

  

  December 
  1916 
  (Admiralty 
  Islands). 
  

  

  Records. 
  — 
  Four 
  males, 
  Los 
  Negros, 
  April 
  1, 
  November 
  15, 
  21, 
  1945 
  ; 
  

   eastern 
  tip 
  of 
  Manus, 
  November 
  9, 
  1945. 
  Five 
  females, 
  Los 
  Negros, 
  

   November 
  16, 
  1944, 
  April 
  1, 
  March 
  20, 
  1945 
  ; 
  Lorengau 
  River, 
  Manus, 
  

   November 
  18, 
  1945. 
  

  

  Notes. 
  — 
  Strand's 
  Thysonotis 
  su'bsuleima 
  from 
  the 
  Admiralty 
  Islands 
  

   was 
  based 
  upon 
  a 
  female 
  of 
  the 
  form 
  described 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

   Thysonotis 
  dispar 
  latifascia 
  by 
  Rothschild 
  in 
  the 
  previous 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  flight 
  of 
  this 
  beautiful 
  little 
  butterfly 
  is 
  slow, 
  but 
  when 
  fright- 
  

   ened 
  it 
  makes 
  off 
  into 
  the 
  underbrush, 
  dodging 
  through 
  the 
  bushes 
  with 
  

   great 
  agility. 
  

  

  